Issue 31, July 2022
VISUAL ART AND EKPHRASTIC POEMS:
Robin Boger, Artist Statement
REVIEW:
Aline Soules, Extended Ekphrasis: A Review of Tension : Rupture, poems by Cutter Streeby, paintings by Michael Haight
INTERVIEW:
Tiffany Troy, “Dancing on the Grave of the Fucked World”: An Interview with Sam Taylor about his newest collection, The Book of Fools
POEMS:
Francesco Levato, from “SCARLET”
“Resin Skull with Chicago Skyline”
“Test Card, Extraction Reagent, Nasal Swab“
“Little Free Library, Sunrise Dr.“
Artist Statement about “SCARLET”
Janelle Solviletti, “Apricot Season”
Kathleen Rooney, “Arms” and “And“
Andrew Zawicki, from “These Late Eclipses”
Beth McDermott, “Ride” and “Like the Biologists,“
Alicia Byrne Keane, “Affirmations for a Surge“
Darryl Lorenzo Wellington, “Days of Protest“
Sean Singer, “An Imperfect Glass” and “Voyagers“
Abigail Ardelle Zammit, “Justice Village, Guatamala“
Jordan Stempleman, “Histories” and “They Call it a Bargain”
Carolyn Oliver, “Field Notes: Worcester County, December”
Peter Krumbach, “Prisons,” “American Armadillo,” and “On Puzzlement”
Khashayar Mohammadi, “Serenading the Absolute for a good night’s sleep“
Daniel Nester, “Future Days” and “Minutes Overheard from The Vagueness Society Holiday Party”
Matthew Lippman, “The Most Beautiful Moment of Get Back is Billy Preston,” “What the Bookies Do in Vegas,” and “You Got To“
Benjamin Paloff, “Fortune Often Met Within the Train of Reason (Amateur Astronomy 5),” “Of Solitude,” and “Of Sleep”
Cristina Legarda, “Pacification 1901,” “Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, 1904,” and “Bud Dajo 1906“
Sarah Giragosian, “Breaking Through the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone” and “Pain Bias“
Carolyne Van Der Meer, “Imagining Keats” and “The Finish Line“
Margaret Bentley, “Memorial” and “Scalene Justice“
Elizabeth Tannen, “The sun has just come up, 34 weeks“
Dawn Bratton, “Syllogism (or the Logic of Illusion)“
Evelyn Schiele, “Shampoo Bowl“
Henry Hughes, “Deviled Eggs“
Jerrod Bohn, “Matter’s Edge“
Carol Alexander, “Taken”
Heather Treseler, “Hitchcock in Bel Air“
Eileen G’Sell, “Zoom Café” and “Herzog in Tribeca”
Lisa Richter, “If You’re Anything Like Me,” and “Culpable“
George Franklin, “For a Friend Who Looks Out Hospital Windows”
Ximena Gómez, “The Hills of Cali are Burning” (co-translated with George Franklin)
Matter 