Review: The Unsung Masters Series, Pleiades Press
Brian Nicolet looks at Dunstan Thompson and Tamura Ryuichi, two masters left to collect dust in the basement of the 20th century until The Unsung Masters Series came along. more »
Dick Move
I dreamt that it was morning and you said, as if it was no big thing, “Hey, kid, why don’t you take the penis today? I’ve got a lot to do, so I won’t even really notice it’s gone, and it might be fun for you.” “This is what I love... more »
Variation on a Legend
“'Our most illustrious gardens, cathedrals, waterfalls, stone angels and so forth,' said the cabbie, leading us through the dark streets of the Tenderloin. . . ." more »
"A Prayer Toward Sleep" and two more poems
Read "A Prayer Toward Sleep," "Application for Remembrance," and "Lover's Complaint" more »
Spoon
Tim and I were in bed together when he saw the spoon. I’d accidentally left the closet open, I noticed, at the same moment he said, “What’s that?” and I knew exactly what he was referring to more »
Excerpts from "Shell-Shaped Pieces of Bone"
She says, “Don’t touch that bird or else the mother will never come back,” but I am already holding the baby bird cupped in my hands like my own beating heart. The tiny feet scritching my palms. I carry it home as carefully as a bomb and then... more »
On Poetic Objects and Poetic Economies
A call for radical formatting: Put a well-loved poem on some nice cardstock and give it—or trade it, or sell it—to a friend. Fringe Editor Anna Lena Phillips, on why we need broadsides and other visual embodiments for poetry now more than ever. more »