NERVE METER: Ceremonial Abyss with Brenda Iijima, Katy Mongeau, Rachelle Rahmé, Jared Daniel Fagen & Chloe Bliss Snyder at Black Spring Books
Sunday, July 16, 2023, 6:30 PM: Please join Black Sun Lit for NERVE METER, a poetry and sound performance featuring Ceremonial Abyss with Brenda Iijima, Katy Mongeau, Rachelle Rahmé, Jared Daniel Fagen & Chloe Bliss Snyder... Read More
Black Sun Lit & Black Square Editions at the 2023 AWP Conference and Bookfair
Black Sun Lit and Black Square Editions will be at the 2023 AWP Conference & Bookfair in Seattle, WA, March 8-11, at table T1411. No Material by Losarc Raal and Material Exercises by Blanca Varela (translated by Carlos Lara) will be available for purchase ahead of their publication date... Read More
Editor’s Note: Vestiges_06: Aporia
Pédaler dans la semoule. To wade, to lose means, to lose the thread of our words. My feet pace, march in place, tap to torrents on the treadle. There is no limb that moves in revolution. Assimilating the hands that kneaded the sauerkraut and cancoillotte. I needed, have need of you. In wait, what trodden... 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, 6-9 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
Editor’s Note: Vestiges_05: Lacunae
I return from a long absence, I return abundantly to the betrayal of words. The treason of my flights resumes as I announce myself a runaway, delighting in the gap of transit, the blush of ended encounters... Read More
Editor’s Note: Vestiges_04: Aphasia
A Dada ad leaves an analysand uncooperative, speechless; a situationist détournement… propels words beyond the pleasure principle… Because there is so much toil and injustice in the use of language… two images begin to take shape. One of the rich mystic unscrolling their parchment; and… one of the police officer turning the pages of a... Read More
Editor’s Note: Vestiges_03: Mimesis
Reflect upon the frond and in so doing neglect the fern. Write its veins, the stains, its gloss; ponder with inaccuracy its divisive parts. Writing is autumn’s discoloration, the experience and expression of wilting. Only stems are left. Imitate and discover what’s not there any longer... Read More
Editors’ Note: Vestiges_02: Ennui
Free to be anywhere, boredom takes the writer everywhere. Free from apprehension, the writer is no longer pushed to panic by boredom, fumbling to alleviate it. What, then, does one do with this liberty? One not simply does but remembers, and detrimentally... Read More
Editors’ Note: Vestiges_00: Ex-Stasis
Writers are abject beings. Their numbers, like those of cockroaches, are indefinite, and their sight is similarly met with first a grimace of disgust, followed then by scorn. Writing is an art that deals in unwanted gifts, an exercise in the superfluous... Read More
“If I Were Braver I Would Live the Life of an Outlaw”: An Interview with Evelyn Hampton
What I’m pursuing are moments of being able to articulate as clearly as my voice will allow how it is to be inside a human body and unable, most of the time, to communicate what it’s really like to be inside a human body. I long to feel connected to something bigger than the limits... Read More