Scott David: Making It Up

We all do these things, these perfect, futile things, we’re trying to make a cut in a petrified landscape, we’re slipping on a banana peel (we did this, but we forgot, we got concussions, we lost track of time).

Scott David is going to save us. Or maybe not save us but be around. If, you know, we need help or whatever. “Making It Up“:

Scott David - Making It Up [sample]

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Amorak Huey: Self Portrait as Blues Guitar

In our upcoming vol. III no. 2, Amorak Huey brings us three poems like spring greens, fresh, nourishing, sharp enough to cut the tongue. Here’s one: “Self Portrait as Blues Guitar”. Get the issue proper by preordering here.

Amorak Huey - three poems[sample]

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Jennifer Kovelan: Winter Clutch

You know where has a foot of snow on the ground still? Minnesota!

Jennifer Kovelan shows a way out:Jennifer Kovelan - Winter Clutch[sample][continue reading]

Get the issue proper here as a PDF or on glorious snow-white paper!

Xenia Taiga: Bam! Biff! Pow!

With AWP season upon us, let’s all gather ’round to enjoy this brief entertainment from Xenia Taiga: “Bam! Pow! Biff!” — and remember that bags full of heavy books can be used to fend off aging professors and hipster doofuses too.

Xenia Taiga - Bam! Pow! Biff!

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Maude Larke: two poems

Raised from the archive, two poems for this (hearts+arrows) season: “Blason II” and “Black and Sour” by Maude Larke.

Maude-Larke-Black-and-Sour

 

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