27 ESSAYS I’M NOT WRITING ABOUT ELIZABETH KOCH by Hilary Plum
“In April everyone involved in, or touched by, independent publishing saw a flare go up: Small Press Distribution launched a GoFundMe. SPD is looking for $100,000 to help cover its losses during the covid-19 crisis […]“
EXCERT FROM BIOCEREMONIALS By Nick Kapsa Vare | May 9, 2020
“Oonseentia. I go out into the city and find a tulip tree, the tallest tree I can find, the tree called oonseentia by the peoples native to this land, the tree these native peoples use to build their canoes. I intend to build a canoe of my own. I wait for lightning to strike and […]“
SIXTY-SIX DRESSES I HAVE READ By Danielle Dutton | May 10, 2020
“This dress I am wearing in this black-and-white photograph, taken when I was two years old, was a yellow dress made of cotton poplin (a fabric with a slightly unsmooth texture first manufactured in the French town of Avignon and brought to England by the Huguenots, but I could not have known that at the time), and it was made for me by my mother […]“
EXCERPT FROM WHORL By Cort Day | May 18, 2020
“The headache is the limit, the circle, the disk. The black horizon. Sometimes it’s a dull, red glow, soft latitudes of pain. Or a field of searing, orange craters. They burst open through the dark. Or, with a gentler hurt: tall, blowing vanes of magnetized color. Sometimes it’s still. Maybe then, it sleeps […]“
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