from 24 Pages The frog kite flips over itself makes a loop of itself Recall tying a chair to a kite & sitting there for it to fly Migration patterns askew in the hot March blue herons also pass over…
Poetry: Brian Mornar
from FIREBIRD NOTEBOOK (2) May 27 The sky is dotted with bright stars. As I just wrote the word “star,” I almost forgot what a star is. They become bright as the eyes adjust to the dark. I am not used to this kind of…
Poetry: Noah Eli Gordon
For Expression Sing a song of utterance. I mutter to you. Sing a song of expression. —Gertrude Stein For the feel in my palm of an apple fresh from the market Against the viscous transparent skin of marketing For the…
Barbara Claire Freeman Interviews Andrew Zawacki
ANDREW ZAWACKI is the author of the poetry books Videotape (Counterpath), Petals of Zero Petals of One (Talisman House), Anabranch (Wesleyan), and By Reason of Breakings (Georgia). His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, The Nation,…
Two films by Joshua Marie Wilkinson: “Shimoda’s Tavern” and “Fred Moten”
These films were originally screened as part of the panel titled “Ecopoetics of Film” at the 2013 Conference on Eco-poetics at U.C. Berkeley. Other participants were Forrest Gander, Peter Burghardt, and Rusty Morrison.
Poetry: Susan Terris
SOMETIMES A HORSE IS NOT A HORSE The Marais—where we are—but in another era, before chic. And in the weed-choked square, a crowd near a creature, legs loping in air while his grounded body writhes. Pressing forward, we hear the…