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…

It’s hard to find a place if you don’t fit into those categories. Part of this is that small press publishing is generally unpaid or underpaid. To ask an already marginalized person to take on that type of unpaid labor is difficult, and it creates this cycle.

Tell me we’ll never get used to it. Richard Siken, 2005   The boy didn’t know what to do with sounds that entered his head and became something else. His…

Pond by Claire-Louise Bennett Riverhead Books, July 2016 208 pages / Amazon   Claire-Louise Bennett’s Pond has been called both a short story collection and a novel but it’s neither.…

I am the wound that does not heal, the small solar stone: strike me, and the world will go up in flames. Had I not stolen that book, I most…

* * * Bird Rhythms I sat, twenty minutes, watching a flock of birds fly in patterns. What could we understand if there were not the birds’ songs to guide…

Guy Psycho and the Ziggurat of Shame By John King 220 pages – Amazon “Guy, cease!” Lulu yelled. “Is he possessed?” she thought.  “How can he keep this up?”  She twisted…

Aug 9–Fog is now available from Farrar, Straus and Giroux Andrew Byrds: I wanna start off first by bringing up the title of this book, Aug 9—Fog. I bring this…

Here navigating space is structures crowded depleted A white owl Was it always as hard to taste New car ocean art bubble gum “wha!” goes the rent To go about…

Image Credit: Dev Murphy   My mother called me last week to tell me she had dreamed of her sister Christy’s trip to the hospital before it happened. Minor illness.…

Jocelyn Ho Jocelyn Ho met me at a coffee shop in the Pico-Fairfax neighborhood of Los Angeles. She ordered herself a cookie and a tea, then sat down across from…

Carmen Giménez Smith is the author of a memoir and six poetry collections, including Milk and Filth, a finalist for the 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry. She was awarded an…

prior atom by Jukka-Pekka Kervinen ma press, May 2019 136 pgs / Lulu.com   “Where technology leads, Art follows.” -Kenneth Goldsmith The broad categories of digital poetry and electronic writing…

The starlings come at 11:00. They leave. They return. They leave. Every departure is as complete as the one before. An escape from certain death. And every return—I don’t know…