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CONTRIBUTORS
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HALT & HITHER
Halt, / Small bone in transit. Still your odds in an orderly pile, some view. . . .
Jenny Allan is a graduate of the University of Brighton, England. She lives in West Sussex and expresses her angle of movement from “a to a” by blogging at intermittentvoices.
TWENTY-FOUR : SAWDUST
a / plate of / bruises : fuel / & taxidermic déjà vu :
Arlene Ang lives in Spinea, Italy. Her poetry has appeared in alice blue, Caffeine Destiny, DMQ Review, Thieves Jargon. She serves as a poetry editor for The Pedestal Magazine and Press 1.
FOR ROBERT BLAKE’S SAKE
I was the youngest, and my father, Robert Blake the first,
A.K. Arkadin’s work is being unofficially curated at a-for-arkadin.blogspot.com.
RIVER
The birds walked out, open beaked / on water
GATHER
There was a decision / not to look over / the frozen water
Andrea Baker was the recipient of the 2004 Slope Editions Book Prize for her first book, like wind loves a window. She is also the author of the chapbooks gilda (Poetry Society of America, 2004) and gather (moneyshoteditions, 2006). She maintains a blog at andreabaker.blogspot.com.
LETTERS TO KELLY CLARKSON
I feel it’s time to wear more skirts, it’s time to change brains . . .
Julia Bloch's poetry has appeared recently in The Big Ugly Review, Shampoo, Five Fingers Review, and Orpheus, and Faux Press' Bay Poetics anthology. She is the winner of the Joseph Henry Jackson Literary Award and is also the co-founder of Bigfan Press. Julia currently spends her time in San Francisco and Philadelphia, where she recently returned to graduate school and colder weather.
TURNTABLE INTERROGATION TECHNIQUES
In the beginning was the word and the word was bass. . . .
PULL YOUR EARS BACK
As the warring words in the 45 flipside of scratched Fuchxtique throat bomb . . .
Author of the novels Wigger, Ratz Are Nice, and More at 7:30: Notes to New Palestine, Lawrence Ytzhak Braithwaite (aka Lord Patch) likes to dub his prose like Lee "Scratch" Perry and King Tubby chopped music & voice. Braithwaite has performed at Lollapalooza, The National Black Arts Festival, Prose Acts: Alternative Fiction Literary Conference with Dennis Cooper, Kevin Killian, Robert Glück, and Dodie Bellamy, and at the Kootney School of Writing. His fiction has appeared in Fourteen Hills, Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social & Political Black Literature & Art, Bluesprints: Anthology of Black British Columbian Literature and Orature, Redzone: Victoria's Street People Zine, Fernwood's Sleeping Dragon, Velvet Mafia, Of the Flesh, Nocturnes, and Biting the Error. His words and voice may be heard on the Hurricane Angel electronic and spoken word project "luckily i was half cat," as well as his own solo works, including Clichy Sous Bois and Mindwalk 31: Driving to Baghdad. He lives in the Hood of New Palestine, Fernwood, British Columbia.
CAMERA & PROPERTIES
a son will appear between those legs as meat left in the sun turns to maggots . . .
Nick Bredie is a writer living in Brooklyn.
_GLOB.OIL+CLIMATE.ALT.AFTERMATH_
_poverty blood 4 oil_su.r[e]vival.stitching. . . .
_MEM[E].ORY_HAEMORRH.AGE_
_pro.p[ane]elled.in2.corri.do[o]rs . . .
Mez Breeze has exhibited extensively since the early 90s [e.g., Wollongong World Women Online 1995, CTHEORY's Digital Dirt, ISEA_97 Chicago, ARS Electronica_97, The Metropolitan Museum Tokyo, SIGGRAPH_99&00, _Under_Score_ @ The Brooklyn Academy of Music 01, +playengines+ 03, and p0es1s 04.]. Mez is also a networked jillaroo, an online journalist, and co-moderator of the _arc.hive_ experimental mailing list. She lives on the east coast of Australia.
WATCHING A BIRD FIGHT AS PERSON
“It’s getting colder,” she said. . . .
Amina Cain is the author of I Go To Some Hollow, a collection of stories that will be published by Les Figues Press in January of 2009. Her work has appeared in journals such as 3rd Bed, Denver Quarterly, Spinning Jenny, and La Petite Zine, and is forthcoming in the second volume (F-K) of the Encyclopedia Project, as well as in the anthology Wreckage of Reason: Contemporary XXperimental Prose by Women Writers. In Chicago, with Jennifer Karmin, she curates the Red Rover reading series.
DEAR ALL MOUSES,
I caution you to stay at home, for men are much like lions in Ohio.
Kate Hill Cantrill’s writing has appeared in various literary publications including, Mississippi Review, Blackbird, StoryQuarterly, Salt Hill, Quick Fiction, Pindeldyboz, The Believer, Swink, and others. She has work forthcoming in Diagram and Oyster Boy Review. She is writing a novel as well as a story collection of flash fiction.
DAY THREE
I wake up in a panic. I can’t remember my worth—will I always be alone? . . .
DAY NINE
I miss V, now thirty-two days gone, cigarette in her mouth, glaring at me . . .
DAY TEN
Why am I so confused about the living and the dead? And identities? . . .
DAY ELEVEN
Last night during the French movie sitting next to S, who looked like a Spice Girl . . .
DAY EIGHTEEN
Clifden Moth, earwig, true bug, ant yellow mother, cockroach, house cricket . . .
DAY TWENTY-TWO
Yesterday, while walking home from the Castro, I had a premonition: . . .
DAY TWENTY-THREE
Dr. Richter looks like Beethoven with his saucer of wavy dark hair . . .
Nona Caspers’ book of stories Heavier Than Air (University of Massachusettes Press) won the AWP Grace Paley Short Fiction Prize. A Book of One Hundred Days will be available from Spuyten Duyvil in Fall 2007. Her work has been honored with a Joseph Henry Jackson Literary Grant and Award and a Barbara Deming Grant and Award and has appeared in Ontario Review, Cimarron Review, Iowa Review, Fourteen Hills, and New Standards: The First Decade of Fiction at Fourteen Hills, among others.
GIVE PETE A CHANCE
The war is about to begin and I’m looking at a flyer . . .
Jimmy Chen is a painter and writer. He's been published in McSweeney's, Fourteen Hills, Snow Monkey, and online at Pindeldyboz, Brevity, Bullfight Review, and Melic Review, among others.
OUR FATHERS
My mother called to say Rebecca’s father passed away. . . .
Kim Chinquee's work has appeared in Denver Quarterly, Conjunctions, elimae, NOON, and other journals. She teaches creative writing at Central Michigan University.
DEAR JACK,
said I was lucky to be there while she removed her ugly face. . . .
John Cleary lives and writes in San Francisco.
CECIL TAYLOR TRIO @ CASTLE CLINTON 7/29/04
useless blues & pinks / in mentus / this is daylight
CECIL TAYLOR TRIO @ THE BLUENOTE 7/19/05
precious 27 sic; the portholes / moontowel
CECIL TAYLOR - DEREK BAILEY DUO @ TONIC 5/3/00
as if he were playing the music on his skin
CATEGORY 5
little baby beast / boy / sitting on concrete
Steve Dalachinsky’s most recent books include The Final Nite & Other Poems (Ugly Duckling Presse), Trial and Error in Paris (Loudmouth Collective Press), In Glorious Black and White (Ugly Duckling Presse), Race Poems w/ Nathaniel Farrell (collages only) (Ugly Duckling Press), Trust Fund Babies (Pitchfork Press), and Poems for Laureamont (Furniture Press). His work is included in The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry. His CDs include Incomplete Directions, I Thought It Was the End of the World and Pray for Me.
DISCRETIONARY (PAPER)
=^..^= / flower frog / garden lovers club . . .
DISCRETIONARY (VIRTUAL)
the house she occupies perfect without her . . .
Catherine Daly was introduced on January 28 (thus she is an Aquarius), though her name and biography are continually expanded. She is a 15-year post-grad living in the center of Los Angeles. Catherine is about 20 apples high and weighs about the same as 50 apples, and she has type A+ blood.
MERCENARY BEVERAGES
4:30 a.m. / last 3 fools ali- / ing (ozzy playing? . . .
Brett Evans escaped from New Orleans four days after Hurricane Katrina to arrive in the City of Poetic Love, Philadelphia. His new chapbook, Ways to Use Lance (Mooncalf Press).
STUNG
His stepfather’s body was genuflected as if disposed at prayer . . .
SCENE
And here, at last, unless it is a dream, he sees his mother again . . .
ESQUISSE
There’s a terrific, and terrifying, passage in Gerhard Roth’s Will to Sickness . . .
Brian Evenson is the author of seven books of fiction, including The Open Curtain (Coffee House Press, 2006) and The Wavering Knife (FC2, 2004). He directs the Creative Writing Program at Brown University.
“PG. 24” A PSEUDO-LITANY, BEING LINES WRITTEN BY ANON.
Rummaging through clutter, boxes & boxes strewn like flotsam or shipwreckage . . .
JOURNAL ENTRY: 12-26-05
Seeking seed texts in Gravity's Rainbow . . .
DEAR NADINE,
I am so very sorry, / and regret very sincerely, / my long-delayed reply to your letter. . . .
OPUS CALIFORNIUM
Obsessed with pg. 24 / of the record Gregor Mendel / kept of his experiments . . .
BOUGHT ME A MANNEQUIN NAMED PAPA TO LOVE WITH ALL MY HEART
Papa types: / —Auckland Personnel Only— / then he types: / “glockenspiel”
EVEN IN STONE EVENTS MAKE SURF (AS LITTLE ELSE IS STEEPLE)
I was raised in a shed
Raymond Farr lives in Ocala, Fla. His work appears both online & in print at Otoliths, Bird Dog, 580 Split, Dusie, Xstream, Venereal Kittens, WordFor/Word, Apocryphal Text, Success, Coupremine, foam:e, Cricket Online Review, & 88: A Journal of Contemporary American Poetry & Poetics. His self published chapbooks are available free by email: r.farr@worldnet.att.net.
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for example, turn more quickly than horses, horses more quickly than stags,
AND YOUR MESSAGES
read, They are starving us, or, They have cut off my ears
Sandy Florian is the author ofTelescope (Action Books) and 32 Pedals & 47 Stops (Tarpaulin Sky Press). Her work appears in over 35 national and international journals including Coconut, Slope, Upstairs at Duroc, New Orleans Review, and Bombay Gin. She lives in Denver where she is completing a PhD in English and Creative Writing.
SWEET RINGO
Ringo Starr is my neighbor. Nobody except him ever enters or leaves his apartment
WHEN THE LAW COMES
When the law comes I will tell them we are apples.
Paul Gacioch's work has appeared in Fourteen Hills, Watchword, and 90ways.com. He has an M.F.A. from NYU. He's writing a novel and will be for a very long time.
STUDENTS
He was the kid whose story about kissing a girl made the rest of us quake . . .
Anne Germanacos’ poetry, stories, and essays have appeared recently or are forthcoming in Quarterly West, Blackbird, Salamander, Black Warrior Review, Harpur Palate, Mudlark, and others. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. A story published in Fourteen Hills recently received the Holmes Award for emerging writers. She lives in San Francisco and on Crete.
AEGEAN REDUX
Ivy white as iv(or)y the / Leachianus Giant collects ...
Scott Glassman is the author of the chapbooks Exertions (Cy Gist Press, 2006) and Identity Crisis (Dusie, 2006). His poems have recently appeared in Iowa Review, Marginalia, Sentence, Sugar Mule, and others. He also co-curates the INVERSE Reading Series in Philadelphia.
THE RIVER IS FAR BEHIND US
‘her eyes . . . / she’s on the dark side . . .’ / a dub echo effect i.e. ‘(((((((’ . . .
Paul Hardacre's poetry has appeared in the anthologies In the criminal's cabinet: An nthology of poetry and fiction (nth position press), The Second Wellington International Poetry Festival Anthology (HeadworX), Greatest Hits - JAAM 21: An Anthology of Writing 1984-2004 (HeadworX/Earl of Seacliffe Art Workshop), (Some from) Diagram: An anthology of text, art, and schematic (Del Sol Press), and Short Fuse: The Global Anthology of New Fusion Poetry (Rattapallax Press). His first collection of poetry, The Year Nothing, was published by HeadworX in 2003. His unpublished poetry manuscript, Love in the place of rats, was shortlisted for the Thomas Shapcott Award in both 2003 and 2004. In 2003/04 he completed a third (and also currently unpublished) collection, The river is far behind us, with the assistance of a Major Grant from Arts Queensland. Paul currently lives and works in Chiang Mai, Thailand, and is managing editor of papertigermedia.
STILL
This city / is my relationship / touched by human hands . . .
DEAR GRADY,
Dear Grady, / I am your red dress girl, / shit-man, get outta here . . .
HL Hazuka's work has appeared in Transfer 81, Cipactli, Fourteen Hills (a 2006 Pushcart nominee), Five Fingers Review, and So to Speak: a feminist journal of language and art, in which she was a contest winner selected by Eileen Myles. She has received degrees in biology and English and is currently an MFA candidate in creative writing. She is the former poetry editor of Fourteen Hills (vol. 9) and works as the associate publisher of Caddo Gap Press in San Francisco. She was born in New Jersey.
WIVING
I am a duet with you / and tripled with you.
Anne Heide edits the journal CAB/NET out of Denver. Her poetry has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Coconut, Octopus, Ur Vox, and the tiny, among others. She is currently working towards a doctorate in English and Creative Writing at the University of Denver.
POSTCARDS FROM A FAMILY ROADTRIP THROUGH THE AMERICAN WEST
If rustic poverty is scenic, then / yes, it’s scenic. . . .
Malia Jackson hails from the Adirondack Mountains of New York but now calls San Francisco home. You can find her work in 42opus, Shampoo, Transfer, and The Astrophysical Journal. She's not even kidding about that last one.
SOME FAIRGROUNDS
Girls were strung from trees in dresses not their own.
Julius Kalamarz received his MFA from Columbia University in 2007. He thinks of you, favorably, in the malted ghoulishness of sleep.
CLAMOR
Jade clamor knobby earthquake bones at dewy / window panes
DOGPATCH
At eight the gates slide open / and the power company trucks rumble Pennsylvania
Noel Kalenian grew up in Grand Junction, Colorado, a high desert town on the Utah border. He has lived in Boulder, Brooklyn, and San Francisco, where he received his MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. He currently lives in Denver. His poetry and fiction have been published in Blister Packs: A Love Bunni Press Collection, Fourteen Hills, Laundry Pen, New Millennium Writings, and Thin Air Magazine, and is forthcoming in Willard & Maple.
MEANWHILE (A MOVEMENT MISSIVE SERIES)
Backyard vixen squalled all night to her cubs. . . .
Eight of Carrie-Sinclair Katz's plays have been produced in London (at the Chelsea and Latchmere Theatre/Theatre 503), and her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in the Big Ugly Review, Comfusion Magazine, horseless review, Lodestar Quarterly, Fourteen Hills, Goetry, Transfer, Wild Strawberries, and others.
CHURCH STREET
Always sitting outside this worn wood-and-lacquer box . . .
CONSERVATORY OF FLOWERS
She likes best the orchids with extraneous tendrils . . .
RESERVOIR
We are terrible: / in good weather, / we steal the crippled / neighbor’s. . . .
New England native Susanna Kittredge is currently finishing up an M.F.A. in Creative Writing at San Francisco State University. Her poetry can be found in recent issues of Diner, Fourteen Hills, and Transfer, and in the anthology Bay Poetics (Faux Press).
ARVERNE HOTEL
When my family owned Arverne's biggest hotel . . .
FULL MOON AT ARVERNE
This magnificent scene purportedly from a century ago could have been replicated . . .
Individual entries on Richard Kostelanetz appear in Contemporary Poets, Contemporary Novelists, Postmodern Fiction, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, A Reader's Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers, the Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature, Webster's Dictionary of American Authors, The HarperCollins Reader's Encyclopedia of American Literature, NNDB.com, and the Encyclopedia Britannica, among other distinguished directories. Otherwise, he survives unemployed and thus overworked in New York, where he was born.
HERE IS WHERE
because it was shapeless / over there in the dark . . .
Kristine Leja is currently attending San Francisco State University and is completing her M.F.A in poetry. She has work published in canwehaveourballback?, Transfer, 42opus, Eleven Eleven {11 11}, Po25¢em, New San Francisco Writing, and Identity Theory. She is also the recipient of the 2005 Ann Fields prize in Poetry. You can find her at www.lessthancasual.blogspot.com.
THE KING AND THE COTTER-PIN
I delivered Slatoris his groceries. . . .
Norman Lock is the author of A History of the Imagination (Fiction Collective Two), ‘The Book of Supplemental Diagrams’ for Marco Knauff’s Universe (Ravenna Press), Land of the Snow Men (Calamari Press), Joseph Cornell’s Operas / Émigrés (Elimae Books and, in Turkish, Yapi Kredi Yaylinari, Istanbul), Trio (Triple Press), Plays (two works for radio – also by Triple Press), The Long Rowing Unto Morning (novel – Ravenna Press), Cirque du Calder (Rogue Literary Society). His stage plays include Water Music, Favorite Sports of the Martyrs, Mounting Panic, The Sinking Houses, The Contract, and The House of Correction (Broadway Play Publishing) – voted one of the best plays of 1988 and 1994 by The Los Angeles Times and critically acclaimed as the best new play of the 1996 Edinburgh Theatre Festival. Women in Hiding, The Shining Man, The Primate House, and Money, Power & Greed were broadcast by WDR, Germany. A screen play, The Body Shop, was produced by the American Film Institute. He received the Aga Kahn Prize for fiction, given by The Paris Review, in 1979.
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oh k we make out that our privates sound as privates . . .
Doug MacPherson is the co-author with Edward Smallfield of the book of poems, One Hundred Famous Views of Edo. His poems have appeared in Windfall, Fourteen Hills, and Rising Waters, an anthology of poems reflecting on the great Midwestern flood of 1993. His short play, Orientation Island: Love at First Pixel, was recently staged as part of a night of short plays around the theme of Second Life, an online virtual world. He is currently working on his thesis for his M.F.A. in Poetry at San Francisco State University.
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… my mind obsesses, knowing no one innocent. . . . .
Scott Malby lives in Coos Bay, Ore. His work has been translated into French, German, Spanish, and Italian.
EXCESS CONCEPTIONS MEDITATIONS RAPIST
the black tooth poisons sleep with a flicker . . .
Bob Marcacci, a San Francisco State University graduate and native Californian, began writing and publishing poetry nearly two decades ago. He currently teaches English in Beijing.
DEAD LETTER GAME
At times I got off on the collision of bad luck and good timing. . . .
Bill Marsh co-directs Factory School and edits the Heretical Texts poetry series. He currently lives in Queens, N.Y., where he teaches writing at St. John's University. His latest essay on radical education and print production, “Alchemy for Assassins,” is due out from Palm Press in the fall of 2006.
NECK
stills into an inconvenient nightmare. / construction comes in jars. . . .
STILL
situational, room is only room. perhaps / this is only the best. perhaps this noise . . .
GROTESQUE
some morning coiled subway in stations, / the way of empty promise. rideau street . . .
rob mclennan lives in Ottawa, Canada's glorious capital, even though he was born there. His 13th trade poetry collection is The Ottawa City Project (Chaudiere Books, 2007), and he is currently putting the finishing touches on a collection of literary essays for ECW Press. He regularly posts reviews and essays at robmclennan.blogspot.com.
BETWEEN
breaking news across the treadmills states cooperating with kuwait . . .
L.J. Moore is an avid taphophile and photographer of ghost towns and urban ruins. Her work has appeared in Spectrum, Coracle, Midnight Zoo, Danse Macabre, Kalliope, 14850 Magazine, The Ithaca Times, Cthulu Sex, Limestone, Fourteen Hills, and Goetry. She resides in San Francisco and holds a season pass to the Winchester Mystery House.
PICAYUNE
He smoked the kind of cigarette that killed you . . .
FLIGHT
It was not him. It was some other man. In his house, a clock had been a precious thing.
Greg Mulcahy's collection, Out of Work, was published by Knopf in 1993; his novel, Constellation, by Avisson in 1996. He has two unpublished books and is at work on another.
THE MAN WHO ATE BREAKFAST FOR DINNER
He had recently become interested in the habits of Albert Einstein. . . .
Cathi Murphy is from Ireland but lives in San Francisco. She completed an M.A. in Literature and Creative Writing at SFSU and hopes to return soon to complete an M.F.A. Currently she teaches writing to young people, ranging from elementry to high school, at a learning center in the East Bay. In what seems like a previous life, she taught political science and sociology at The National University of Ireland, Galway. In between, she worked as a bartender in NYC and occasionally sang in her friend’s band. Her favorite karoke song is “These Boots Are Made for Walking” and she likes strawberries very much, almost as much as oysters. Her poetry has appeared in Bombay Gin and Fourteen Hills.
NO EXCUSE FOR THE TENSION OF A POSSIBLE STORM
That part that would have been self-consciousness was damaged. . . .
DEAR LO,
Dear Lo, / Do you still sniff chemicals at work when you clean the restrooms? . . .
Eireene Nealand has been a chauffer in New Orleans, gardener in San Francisco, restaurant reviewer in Los Angeles, and mosquito fodder in Louisville. She currently lives in Santa Cruz and edits fiction for Tarpaulin Sky. She has work published or forthcoming in Thin Air, Five Books, Fourteen Hills, Transfer, and Tight Magazine, among other places.
MARKET STREET & MCALLISTER
Who if scratched would reveal a person . . .
Daniel Pendergrass grew up in rural North Alabama. After working as a journalist, he spent the next two years living on an outer island of Micronesia. His poems have been placed with Van Gogh's Ear and The Chiron Review, among other publications. He currently lives in the Middle East.
ORPHéE
The underworld, a dark hallway littered with debris. . . .
Kristin Prevallet is the author of Scratch Sides: Poetry, Documentation, and Image-text Projects. She lives in Brooklyn.
BART II. HEAD BANDAGE REPLETE WITH HOLE
[loose change on cigarette scarred park bench] . . .
MISSION ST & 19TH ST WITH GREY GARDENS
she wore three scarves / edie did on her head water / pistol poised . . .
kathryn l. pringle has an M.A. and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. She has one chapbook: Temper and Felicity Are Lovers (TAXT Press). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Alice Blue Review 3, Fourteen Hills, Transfer, 42opus, Em Literary 3/4, Commonweal, and Rife. She was awarded the Academy of American Poets Harold Taylor College Prize in 2005. She blogs with writer and partner, Magdalena Zurawski, at www.minoramerican.blogspot.com.
PAINTING
image of glass on the wall between doors
Stephen Ratcliffe's recent books of poetry include REAL (Avenue B, 2007), Portraits & Repetition (The Post-Apollo Press, 2002) and SOUND/(system) (Green Integer, 2002). Listening to Reading, a book of essays on contemporary experimental poetry, was published by SUNY Press (2000). He lives in Bolinas and teaches at Mills College in Oakland.
AILIN PENLIGHT
Jack Bommb took the light from his wife’s hand.
AE Reiff is an agronomist on loan to the physics office of exospheric radiation in the Department of Casa Grande.
FILM PROFESSOR WITH BEAUTIFUL HANDS
i am denied foremost by blankets— / by silos with ageing silver seed. . . .
KEYSTONE SERVICE LETTERS
to a prof. of american romanticism on the effects of reading dostoevsky at age 17 . . .
MY PERFECT, MY BINDING, MY CLIENT-LANGUAGE
prick through this bill / you bull. bore your way / into texture.
Daniel C. Remein's recent work can be found in Sentence 6, Zafusy, and Shampoo. He currently edits Whiskey & Fox, a magazine of poetry, theory, and heterotopia, and will begin work this fall for a Ph. D. in Medieval studies.
PROPOSITION
That a proposition is not against any Law / that a moment of logic . . .
Elizabeth Robinson is the author of eight collections of poetry, most recently Apostrophe, from Apogee Press, and Under That Silky Roof, from Burning Deck Press. She has been a winner of the National Poetry Series and the Fence Modern Poets Prize. Robinson co-edits EtherDome Chapbooks and Instance Press and teaches at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
COMPOSITION 24
Place / A mug / A mask / Marbled / Apples / Ash / The blue / Twilled cloth / / Called Corpse
23:59
What said and the response does not repeat itself
SING/LE FIGURE
Saw-edged scarf / A tear or mole, or mole so firm:
PHOTOGRAPH IN WHICH EVERYTHING IS BLURRED
Muscled in sun. The song of the lark: a girl with a scythe, mouth agape
Zach Savich has had recent poems in Colorado Review, jubilat, 88, and Blue Mesa Review. He is currently teaching at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand.
WHITE, TRACKLESS LAND
Then / the animals descend / Then / Inebriation
THE MAGGOT AND THE FLY
below in the ditch / climb onto my back / skull-leaved on the slope
Brandon Shimoda was born in California. He has chronicled his subsequent movement in recent and forthcoming installments of jubilat, A Public Space, Colorado Review, Practice and elsewhere, as well as in book projects forthcoming from Corollary, Flim Forum and Tarpaulin Sky Press(es). He currently lives in Montana.
SUTRO HEIGHTS
hustling the sand for a stake next to the weeds . . .
FOR ARMAND F. CAPANNA II
You said you needed fast architectures, angular weight, something made from blue collared hands.
Len Shneyder lives in San Francisco & is completing his M.F.A. in poetry at SFSU. In his spare hours he works full time, teaches part time at Chabot College, & engages in all forms of frolic and merrymaking. Len was the recipient of the 2003 William F. Dickey Fellowship & runner-up for the Anne Fields Prize in 2005. His translations have appeared in Brenda Hillman's Pieces of Air in the Epic.
THREE FRAGMENTS
the convulsionaries of saint medard appear before him . . .
Nina Shope's collection of experimental fiction, Hangings: Three Novellas, was published by Starcherone Books in 2005. Her work has appeared in Third Bed, Open City, PP/FF: An Anthology, and New Standards: The First Decade of Fiction at Fourteen Hills. She holds an M.F.A. from Syracuse University and lives in Colorado.
LISTEN BRO,
listen bro, / here’s the track you asked about / from the top of the long . . .
Kyle Simonsen is an undergraduate student in northeast Nebraska. His work appears online in Opium Magazine, SaucyVox, Wingspan Quarterly, and Flash Fantastic.
SEASON FINALE
My last look around the house / took so long that the vine . . .
PAT WALLECK’S LEG
I won it in a poker game, his leg . . .
DOG HIGHWAY
That highway still fights north . . .
THE WORLD-FAMOUS TOPEKA ZOO
I ran the answer desk. First job, acne burning. . . .
Ed Skoog's poems have appeared in NO: a journal of the arts, Fourteen Hills, Poetry, Poetry Daily, The New Republic, and Slate.com. A pamphlet of his poems, Field Recordings, is available from Seattle's LitRag Press. He lives in snowy, mountainous Southern California.
THE FALL
His straight face, enigmatic in a way she likes. . . .
THE FALL
The crosstown away from the suicide. The side street. The latch of the gate. . . .
Jason Snyder is former editor-in-chief of Fourteen Hills. His fiction has appeared in Five Fingers Review, Fourteen Hills, and New San Francisco Writing.
THE FOREST OF CLASHING EROTICS
My new girlfriend / used to be at the Carlton / with a Doberman . . .
Anna Joy Springer received her M.F.A. in Literary Arts from Brown University in 2002. She was the lead singer and lyricist for Bay Area punk bands Blatz, The Gr'ups, and Cypher in the Snow, and has toured the U.S. and Europe extensively in these bands and as a member of the legendary all-girl spoken word troupe Sister Spit. She currently lives in San Diego, where she teaches experimental writing and fiction at UCSD and hosts TMI, a monthly queer and feminist literary performance event.
MERCENARY BEVERAGES
4:30 a.m. / last 3 fools ali- / ing (ozzy playing? . . .
A member of the band Continuous Peasant, Chris Stroffolino lives in Oakland, Calif.
IT IS WRONG
It is wrong said the ghost / to be astonished at anything
THEY
I saw it in a doorway, I / thought I saw a door
Cole Swensen is the author of eleven collections of poetry and has been awarded a National Poetry Series selection, the Iowa Poetry Prize, the SF State Poetry Center Book Award, two Pushcart Prizes, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She is the editor of La Presse, a small press dedicated to French poetry in English translation, and she teaches at the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
QUEENIE
My name began with cookies. . . .
Joanne Tracy has published in Columbia Journal, Five Fingers Review, and Mississippi Review and won a fellowship from Oregon Literary Arts in 2002.
MOTHER, I
A scene marked by the double helix of shame and a terrifying hunger . . .
A recipient of the 2003 NEA Fellowship in poetry, Chris Tysh teaches creative writing and women's studies at Wayne State University in Detroit. Her latest book of poems is Cleavage (Roof, 2004). Mother, I (fragment of a film script) was released as a pamphlet by Belladonna in 2002. Her poems, reviews, and essays have appeared in Chicago Review, Hambone, Jacket, Lipstick Eleven, Chain, Metro Times, Mirage, Poetry Flash, and How, among others. She is former editor of mark(s).
PUNCT
(…)____,_____.{…..}+{…..}___!(…) . . .
Nico Vassilakis lives in Seattle. Thursday fascinated in the middle of your hands. He is a curator of the Subtext reading series. Several big bangs have occurred. He is working on a play about Morton Feldman. A new chapbook, The Amputation of L Mendax, is forthcoming from Writers Forum. His concrete poetry can be found online at: 3rd Bed, Factory School, The Telematic Society, Public Domain, Diagram, BlazeVox, & UbuWeb.
REYNOLDS—PART ONE OF CLAIMS OF UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES
However it could have went in Paris, years ago, in the night, drunk . . .
James Wagner is the author of Trilce (Calamari Press, 2006) and the false sun recordings (3rd Bed, 2003). Other pieces from Claims of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles have appeared or will appear in Mississippi Review, 6x6, and Tarpaulin Sky. He lives in Chico, California.
POST-HOLING TO THE FLESH TEMPLE
My physics professor, Dr. Slatoris, was being convicted of a crime . . .
FIJIAN FIELD DATA
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CONTROLLED SLEDDING IN THEORY
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AIRBORNE SPEAR CONTRACEPTION
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PHYLOGENIC RECAPITULATION
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Derek White has other recent or forthcoming work in Post Road, Denver Quarterly, Double Room, elimae, 5_Trope, Instant City, Tarpaulin Sky, and Diagram. He edits SleepingFish and has some publications available through his own Calamari Press.
LOST LANGUAGES
Development of language on open plain:
Angela Woodward's prose has recently been published in elimae, Diagram, Pebble Lake Review, 13th Moon, and others. Her book The Human Mind isforthcoming from Ravenna Press in 2007.