This week we feature new work from the five finalists for the 2012 Omnidawn 1st/2nd Book Contest: Jaime Brunton — Reclaimed Meg Day — We Can’t Read This Endi Bogue Hartigan — chorus [interstice] Brandon Kreitler — Valley as a…
Poetry: Mani Rao
POEM, SISYPHUS Moon, Sisyphus Full Null Life, Sisyphus Chain Who knows how many
Lisa Wells interviews Mary Austin Speaker
Mary Austin Speaker is the author of the chapbooks The Bridge (Push Press 2011); 20 Love Poems for 10 Months (Ugly Duckling Presse 2012); a collaborative play, I Am You This Morning You Are Me Tonight, written with her husband,…
LA Lit Scene: Beyond Baroque
Review by Sarah Suzor, Omnidawn features writer Who: Karren Alenier and Margo Taft Stevers What: A lecture and workshop on selecting award-winning manuscripts When: Sunday, January 20th, 2013 Where: Beyond Baroque, 681 Venice Blvd. Venice. Check out more Beyond Baroque…
Featured Essay: Jack Collom
With many thanks to the generosity of Instance Press and Elizabeth Robinson, OmniVerse is excited to be able to celebrate the work of Jack Collom in our next three issues. Collom’s latest book, Second Nature, out at the end of…
Poetry: Elizabeth Block
Illness of the Text The shadows, only of trees. The flourishing wind in obeisance made the wall, on, for, and darkened moment in the pool, which reflected and suspected light itself. Birds, or flying a made spot soft, slowly flutter,…