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Invented Forms: The Skance

By Robert Wynne

The Skance is an ekphrastic persona poem, written in the voice of some element from the piece of art (subject, color, frame, etc.) or left out of it (alternate subject, missing color, etc.). There are no specific … Continue reading

Eating Black Mucus: Notes on language, history, creativity

By Robert Bohm

1.  Dante and Genet Fuck All Night in a Bed of Transcendent Ideas:  Prologue to a Few Words on Artaud

In order to understand language, one must be wary of it, as if it were … Continue reading

I can’t leave the former well enough alone: Looking for every you after reading Sophie Klahr’s ‘The Flooded Field’

By Jean Macpherson

Leaving the past behind is never simple. Like the ridiculous nature of encountering a long-lost high school boyfriend is tempting. You read the message over and over again. A year goes by, maybe longer. The message is … Continue reading

Drive All the Horses at Once: Charles Bukowski, 1967

By Richard Modiano

One Saturday afternoon in the autumn of 1967 I was visiting the Dialog Bookshop on Fulton Avenue in Van Nuys California. The bookshop was across the street from the campus of Valley Junior College (now called San … Continue reading