Category: New Work

Poetry: 2011 Open Book Prize Finalists

This week we also feature new work from the five finalists for the 2011 Omnidawn Open Book Contest: Anne Cecelia Holmes — All the Good in the World Starts Now Jill Darling — A Geography of Syntax Matt Reeck —…

Poetry: Brett Fletcher Lauer

The Gentle Sleep Empty I slept, remembering how others feared sleep, feared the likeness between a fading consciousness and permanent escape drifting out past smoke, past particles of last-call conversations. It’s uneasy this waking life, but drugs work quickly

Poetry: Amish Trivedi

Your Relationship to Motion Has Changed Having nowhere to go is the best place to be: I don’t care if crosswalk signals never let me pass or if rivers continue to flood. After all terrors, settled moments have left to…

Poetry: Joshua Corey

Sæglópur Gut of static hush the single voice venturesome and small signal to noise the toe-tap adjustment a Turner reality a Whistler’s frost of decadence filming whipped grays and blacks indicative of sea fog rushing the viewer’s 3D-glasses slack planked…

Poetry: Raina León

To celebrate National Poetry Month, this week’s installation of OmniVerse will be a poetry double feature. Click the link below to see new work by Raina León.

Poetry: Chad Sweeney

from “After” * Doorframes in wind The blood’s radiant Green flower And scarves tangling Among all the blond Grasses one Chickadee gathered the day Into smallness The dunes and the dunes And the water

Poetry: Cal Bedient

FLOATING ANT Wednesday bares the turned page of her shoulder Friday walks to Sunday through the red blades of the       Blackhawk sun Saturday is the feral cat with the swollen balls Here they come, the butched leaves, riding in from…

Poetry: Dora Malech

Euscorpius italicus You are not a killer but you play one in my head. Tomorrow I’ll leave the light on for you since I think that isn’t what you want. What ever it is that you want

Poetry: Steffi Drewes

Installation 2: Within Reach More or less jealous of the tantrum grocery girl unleashing a little whirlwind into the aisle all kinds of color intersections we can only hope for at our age pretty hard to peg this fluorescent obsession…