My father was a birder. Gulls were not his birds. But he taught me something about gulls and language: there is no such thing as a seagull. There is only…
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* * * * * * Dustin Parsons is the author of Exploded View: Essays on Fatherhood, with Diagrams, from University of Georgia Press (2018). He teaches workshops in…
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Course Description Microsoft Word’s spell check doesn’t know the word Anthropocene and yet this that word has become not only the time in which but also the place where we…
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Recently, I was thinking about statistics related to the number of uninsured in America, when the old phrase Numbers become meaningless past a certain size popped back into my head,…
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Image Credit: Liat Berdugo, Hat Credit: Lee Tusman Often we work with holes. In understanding. Often set out without knowing where. Often distrust narratives. Never need struggle over the…
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Transitory Poetics is a monthly review series by Toby Altman focused solely on current and upcoming chapbooks. You can read the introduction here. This month I reviewed three chapbooks from Projective Industries: Kate Schapira’s Someone…
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Dead Youth, or, The Leaks by Joyelle McSweeney Litmus Press, 2014 90 pages – Litmus / Amazon As a wild and pulsing parable of the Anthropocene, Joyelle McSweeney’s Dead Youth, or,…