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What might a poem about grief and the immediate shock that precedes it look like? I’d like to imagine a long meditation, something about a collective hurt and shared pain,...

There is a mound of earth in the city of Hiroshima where the bodies of 70,000 nameless people killed by the atomic bomb are buried. The mound is in the...

Horror movie nerds are kind of usually white boys. Like Aaron Winslow. And sometimes I like to think about how bad white boys have it. It’s really hard for them!...

“Mama’s got a lover,” sang Lou Reed, in a track by that name from his 1986 album Mistrial, A painter I am told She’s getting out of real estate For the art scene...

Ah, Twitter, the 140-character-constraint social media platform. Such fertile ground for poetry, celebrity mashups and algorithms. Here are some accounts worth checking out: @PoBizNews — Let's start with the obvious. This "News for...

Paul Blackburn is arguably the quintessential mid-20th century poet of Manhattan. As Jed Birmingham, co-editor with Kyle Schlesinger of the terrific zine-on-small-press-zines Mimeo Mimeo, remarks when considering the scene of...

RIP Richard O. Moore, thank you for the NET Outtakes I'm on the road again, down Interstate 5 again (Southern California says "The 5" Northern California says "5"), I'm on my...

Mamma Andersson, Filly This past year I’ve been teaching poetry workshops based on the idea of the jeweled lyric poem. The lyric poem is a poem that utilizes the “I.”...

What is the idiom of friendship? How do you open yourself up to the possibility of another’s language in a way where you can let it enter your own as...

"You Again" by Marina Eckler. Mirrored vinyl on mirrored glass, 2013. I remember standing on the corner of Mission and 8th Street in San Francisco some years ago when people...