Fence & Black Sun Lit AWP Offsite Reading at Black Sheep Pub
Friday, March 25, 2022, 7:30 PM: Please join Fence & Black Sun Lit for an AWP offsite reading, featuring Erin Fleming, Annelyse Gelman, Michelle Gil-Montero, Sally Helmi, RN, Alonso Llerena, Katy Mongeau, Alyssa Perry, Christine Riley, MSN, APRN, Emmalea Russo & Ron Silliman... Read More
Five Poems by Jacques Prevel, trans. from French by Caleb Bouchard
And I remember the regrets / Those winged monsters of great departures / Darkening the sky and delivering us the night / And in their talons taking us to a country / where we were human / Standing faceless... Read More
Three Poems by Michelle Gil-Montero
I had this murmur, this tremor in my mouth. This whisper of running water, now overgrown with wildflowers. I had this thought of the Alhambra, this chalky color caught in folding mirrors... Read More
Open Call for Submissions: Vestiges_06: Aporia
Black Sun Lit is now accepting submissions for the sixth volume of Vestiges: Aporia. Literature as an object of communicable comfort has long expired. Yet every instrument that serves as an appendage to voice and vision acts nonetheless as a reaching... Read More
Three Poems by Elizabeth Robinson
Arise awry. Bless bliss. / This: thus sun sung / on dawn. Bird burred / in song insensate as / asters stir tulips.
Two lips / address: undress, win kisses / in chaos endured... Read More
Two Poems by Amish Trivedi
Maybe it’s a blessing that we get to die. / The world I cannot recommend to you. / My miracle year was any before this one. / Rubbing the ashes of two good days into a wounded knee... Read More
Introducing Fish Carcass by Vi Khi Nao, forthcoming April 5, 2022
Preorders for Vi Khi Nao’s Fish Carcass are now available. Blending autobiographical truth with poetic invention, Vi Khi Nao’s Fish Carcass is a pointillist portrait that catalogs a tripartite digestion process of being-in-the-world... Read More
Winter Cinemas by Emmalea Russo
A cloud streams through dirt detergent haunted jewels as Marguerite Duras watches a fly die... Read More
I am writing you from afar Book Launch at Unnameable Books [CANCELED]
Saturday, October 30, 2021, 2 PM: Please join Black Sun Lit for an outdoor gathering to celebrate the release of I am writing you from afar by Moyna Pam Dick, with readings by the author, Eugene Lim & Marcella Durand... Read More
Excerpt from The Witch, A Play by Thera Webb
Tremendous suffering and beauty I bring / to the atlas of delight a new river. / Your body breathes above the clouds, / you’re hung by the heels. A pinnate leaf / waving to the water... Read More