Introducing Suede Mantis / Soft Rage by Jennifer Soong, forthcoming October 11, 2022
Preorders for Jennifer Soong’s Suede Mantis / Soft Rage are now available. Swaying between command and curiosity, acquiescence and destruction, distance and proximity, Jennifer Soong’s Suede Mantis / Soft Rage proffers tenderness that teeters on the precipice of loss... Read More
Vestiges_06: Aporia Cover & Contributors Preview
Vestiges_06: Aporia will feature work from Ghérasim Luca, Will Alexander, Wayne Koestenbaum, Mary Ann Caws, Genya Turovskaya, Billie Chernicoff, Ted Rees, Jack Jung, Xeno Muir Pam Dick, Losarc Raal +more... Read More
Three Chinese Characters by Jaime Robles
His flight is alone despite the stars decorating his path. / When you write his name like a ladder, / A small hook at the end of one leg, / Does it anchor him to earth or sky... Read More
Fish Carcass Virtual Book Launch
Thursday, May 19, 2022, 8 PM EST: Please join Black Sun Lit for the virtual launch of Vi Khi Nao’s Fish Carcass, with readings by the author, Valerie Hsiung & Christine Shan Shan Hou... Read More
Three Prose Poems by Marc Vincenz
Unreclined at the peninsula’s end, a mile from the city where your feet become the night unveiling—too far to hear of the siege of cicadas where Sister’s coat lies perched against the dark... Read More
Vestiges_06: Aporia deadline extended to May 15, 2022
Submissions for Vestiges_06: Aporia will remain open until May 15... Read More
Three Prose Poems by Lee Min-ha, trans. from Korean by Jein Han
m is for my name, h is for your name my name, blue-backed snare, sharp oxygen, gasping for air I went to lustrous june’s fleshmarket to sell the apricot-colored uvula caught in my throat... Read More
Black Sun Lit, The Operating System, 11:11 Press & Contra Mundum Press AWP Offsite Reading at Lot 49 Books
Thursday, March 24, 2022, 6 PM: Please join Black Sun Lit, The Operating System, 11:11 Press & Contra Mundum Press for an AWP offsite reading, featuring Vidhu Aggarwal, Steven Alvarez, Jared Daniel Fagen, Rainer J. Hanshe, Ginger Ko, Danika Stegeman LeMay, Elæ Moss, Vincent James Perrone & David Leo Rice... Read More
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