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Category: New Work
Poetry: Geoff Bouvier
Travel Arrangements Down, down the opening road, and away by either blurred side pull two passive, golden fields. So hold on fast, tilted into sun-squint, trunk full of stuff, cracked window whistling a tremolo. In between songs, “The alternative alternative,”…
Poetry: 2011 First/Second Book Prize Finalists
This week we feature work from our five finalists for the 2011 Omnidawn First/Second Book Contest: Jill Darling — A Geography of Syntax Leora Fridman — The Riots Eryn Green — Eruv Jane Gregory — My Enemies Soham Patel —…
Poetry: Noah Eli Gordon
TEN WAYS TO TAKE AN AIRPLANE APART 1 A rivet forces proximity on two sheets of aluminum. Violence to the hawk & violence to the horse, together, build a third kind of animal. Wholly subdued, hanger-like. This tangential harmony—impossible as…
Poetry: Laura Sims
POST- (an excerpt) One hand beat At a guttering softening bellying eddying Bank of white dust Swift Spreading coils Our men and The source of our decadence — all of deep space — extracted At last to a Wilderness
Poetry: Joshua McKinney
from “Meme” Modern Warfare 2 has received very positive reviews from various gaming websites, attaining a 94% aggregate score on Metacritic, with praise stemming primarily from its in-depth multiplayer component. Upon its release, the game sold approximately 4.7 million copies…
Poetry: Amanda Nadelberg
U.S.A. Long Stairs That boats might set toward other pooled nests in which to precise the new, the small company proceeds historic visits; midair apartments saying small to their own demise, the dining table yields slight conversations, concerned for no…
Poetry: 2011 Chapbook Prize Finalists
This month we feature work from our five finalists for the 2011 Omnidawn Chapbook Competition: Brian Foley – Totem Hugo Garcia Manriquez – All Civilians Nicholas Gulig – Ecotone Megan Pruiett – The Naught Book M.A. Vizsolyi – Notes on…
Poetry: Elizabeth Robinson
from “The Woman in White” which will be published in THREE NOVELS coming in Fall 2011 from Omnidawn Whence the plot’s precipice folds over, an envelope from which more secret still, the ghost falls Shoved Likewise, no asylum Treasure hidden beneath…
Poetry: Aaron Shurin
HELIOS CREAM Wiped it out, just wiped out the desk — scaffolding dismantled — in the helios cream of 9 A.M. — ornament air — if air could shower or flood — wiped out the cylinder seals, the belligerent calculator,…