E Elia’s Body(s) premiers on Friday, Sept. 24, at the Folkestone Quarterhouse in Kent, UK. This first, professionally staged reading of Elia’s viscerally lyrical trilogy of satirical duologues, each a…
by Katie Schaag with Sarah Ciston, Sam Cohen, Kate Durbin, Feliz Lucia Molina, and Sandra Rosales Katie Schaag: At the AWP (Association of Writers & Writing Programs) Conference in San…
Sometime in the mid-’90s, I had a phone conversation with my older brother David (who prefers the moniker “DaveR”), in which I shared my growing appreciation of New Music—avant-garde work…
Photo Credit: Spring Bouquet Viburnum, Talitha May by Talitha May and Solomon Davis “Hypervisibility is obscene; it lacks the negativity of what is hidden, inaccessible, and secret” —Byung-Chul…
a contemporary depiction of Karacaoğlan Karacaoğlan is not only one of the most famous ashiks [a poet-singer who writes, composes and sings love ballads, moving constantly from place to place]…
Image caption: surface detail of Donald Judd’s Untitled (1984) at Laumeier Sculpture Park in St. Louis, MO, February 2018 1. Across a gray, slightly pocked concrete surface—in what…
Pasko na sinta ko / Hanap-hanap kita / Bakit magtatampo’t / Nilisan ako / Kung mawawala ka / Sa piling ko sinta / Paano ang Pasko / Inulila mo It’s…
Birkenhead was built around a shipyard, Cammell Laird. When I was nine years old it closed down. Our school was taken to the yard as the last submarine built there…
I can’t stop remembering an incident with a middle school bully named Amanda Barba. We were 12 years old. “You shouldn’t speak to me like that you little faggot. Are…
Read: Introduction Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 PART 3 Tommy Pico Ariana Reines Raquel Salas Rivera Prageeta Sharma Cedar Sigo Christopher Soto Brian Teare Jackie Wang Emerson Whitney Dara…
Read: Introduction Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 PART 2 Tonya Foster Peter Gizzi Raquel Gutiérrez Sueyeun Juliette Lee Jimena Lucero Jo Mariner Anthony McCann Tanner Menard Fred Moten Eileen…
Read: Introduction Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 PART 1 Samuel Ace Vidhu Aggarwal Will Alexander Kay Ulanday Barrett Anselm Berrigan Anne Boyer Zoe Brezsny Anne Carson Angel Dominguez Abou…
I wrestled with death as a threshold, an aporia, a bandit, a part of life – Akilah Oliver In the 1980s and 90s, when half of everyone I…
The author’s senior photo The first thing you need to know about Danny is that Danny wasn’t punk. I mean, Danny wanted to be punk. Danny wanted to be…