“Come then. Leave your war awhile, paper or iron war, petrol or flesh, come in with your love, your fear of losing, your exhaustion with it. All day it’s been at you, coercing, jiving, claiming your belief in so much that isn’t true.”
Thomas Pynchon hitting hard on a Friday
“I wouldn't let the others know about this, but I would be everywhere, as I am right now, a thin tone like the wind, a sip of blue light”
Beautiful poem here
"Writing this book was like playing dolls as a kid."
We love to see it: contributor Claudia Monpere was interviewed by fellow contributor Michelle Ross about her book THE PERIODIC FAMILY for 100 Word Story! 🤩 https://t.co/bmuegTxZEG
Writer payments sent though Bob Hicok donated his to ONLY POEMS. Coming Oct. 30: nothingness/somethingness/anythingness; notes toward a Midwestern tarot; Valdez’s ghost glacier; steel sheep; the power of smell; three unicorn sightings; the devil’s lantern and more 🎃
We have a fun, slightly macabre, beautifully haunting issue coming Oct. 30 w/ new work from @adam_mcomber Zhu Xiao Di, Mar Prax, Elisabeth Speckman, @adam_findog Dale Bridges, Jenny M . Liu, Bailey Loveless, Elena Zhang, Brett Stuckel, @Foreverasheley & Bob Hicock 👀 Stay tuned!
Since reopening, we’ve been making an effort to solicit more original photography and artwork from our contributors. This painting comes from Dale Bridges and will accompany his short story, “The Strange Sad Ballad of Jimmy Sutton,” on Oct. 30 along with other great work 👀
Tyler is one of the sharpest essayists out there with a voice that is fun, seeking, reflective and not scared of plumbing experience. We’re big fans. Plus he’s a new dad and needs money for diapers.
My book of essays is available for preorder from @PressTrident! 3 BotN noms in there, stuff nobody's read. Can't be bad. Appreciate anyone who supports my art, my podcast, my life. Please buy a million copies.
https://t.co/yuMNhIprXl
My book of essays is available for preorder from @PressTrident! 3 BotN noms in there, stuff nobody's read. Can't be bad. Appreciate anyone who supports my art, my podcast, my life. Please buy a million copies.
https://t.co/yuMNhIprXl
Love Darwish. Thinking poetry—reading and writing it—changes our relationship with language and thus the world, the layers of reality we see, hear, contemplate. Changes our interface. And maybe that ripples in ways we can’t always track 🤔
I thought poetry could change everything, could change history and could humanize, and I think that the illusion is very necessary to push poets to be involved and to believe, but now I think that poetry changes only the poet.
-- Mahmoud Darwish
I have sympathy & admiration for writers wrestling language to the page. Is it for fame, glory, or just to make existence bearable & meaningful? Whatever u got going, we’re open for submissions for our Dec. 4 issue. Probably a few weeks left till we close subs for the year.
Scott