Open Call for Submissions: Vestiges_07: Catachresis
Black Sun Lit is now accepting submissions for the seventh volume of Vestiges: Catachresis. To wilt tears for an infatuation who has no name of their own. To weep rain like a sentence that passes through the unrequited glimpse. Language is the instrument of our shivers, literature the wink that slips into a wince... 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
Three Poems by Ghérasim Luca, trans. from French by Austin Carder
love torrent emptiness chair / the empty chair / the torrential and empty chair suspended in meta-emptiness / the meta-chair is suspended by the torrential rope of meta-emptiness... Read More
Six Poems from Enter Ghost by Genya Turovskaya
I can’t will you out of / the latticed net of the willow’s umbrage / I will leave you there / beating the drum / of a furious grief... Read More
Excerpt from No Material by Losarc Raal
Times will change the cobalt heaven tongues. I walk people into water past the hippo lights. Black model railroad track. Doctor of the upper wake plea. My heart is hollow; my skin waives tears... Read More
I Am From the Last Country I Am From by Jack Jung
A double negative / Is an erasure back to square one / On the cadence hitherto ripped from sources / Once well-known... 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
Vestiges_06: Aporia deadline extended to May 15, 2022
Submissions for Vestiges_06: Aporia will remain open until May 15... 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
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