William Ben Brook crafts a thoughtful slice of Americana on the soulful “A Broken Beast”. Effortlessly blending together pieces of the blues, folk, funk and classic rock into a singular…

  SAM NAKAHIRA is a MFA candidate at the Center for Cartoon Studies and a 2019 graduate of Grinnell College. She writes about things that interest her: food, pop culture,…

Stevie Edwards is the author of two poetry collections, Good Grief  (Write Bloody) and Humanly (Small Doggies), as well as a recent chapbook Sadness Workshop (Button Poetry). She holds a…

WOVEN is an Entropy series and dedicated safe space for essays by persons who engage with #MeToo, sexual assault and harassment, and #DomesticViolence, as well as their intersections with mental…

In the inner core of our minds can be great struggle. A struggle which can force us to curl up into a ball. Those days spent uninspired and jaded, can…

[Plant Poetics and Beyond] A version of this paper was first shared at the 2019 Association for the Study of Literature and Environment Conference on the Vegetal Feminist Experimental Creation…

[Plant Poetics and Beyond]   From this short talk, take away that you are a blue nerve-blood tree, filimental instrument of perception, cultivated and cultivating yourself into finer and finer…

[Plant Poetics and Beyond]   It is easy to talk with plants. You are invited to do the following: Introduce yourself to the plant Make an offering to the plant…

[Plant Poetics and Beyond]   Roaming the verdant campus of University California-Davis, (UC Davis was instituted as an agricultural school called the University Farm ((farms being a specific mode of…

[Plant Poetics and Beyond] To begin, I invite you to close you eyes. Be seated in a comfortable position. First, take a deep inhale in. Exhale with a loud sigh…

[Plant Poetics and Beyond] Context I’m going to share the title poem from Withness, my book manuscript in progress. I see this book as part of a larger project of…

[Plant Poetics and Beyond]   Part 1. In Which the Issue is Discovered The issue is : how to be within the literal/literary when it is all around us In…

These poems are excerpts from the author’s book project Buena Vista. Told through a collection of flash fiction, short plays, lists, letters and essays, Buena Vista loosely chronicles the author’s journeys…

Arsenal/Sin Documentos by Francesco Levato Clash Books, August 2019 162 pages / Amazon   Francesco Levato’s Arsenal/Sin Documentos is, in a single word, timely. Comprised of 15 sections of blackout…