“Everyone spoke underwater; I could only / hold my breath to listen for so long. / I did learn the water carries its own song.” – Michelle Peñaloza, “POST DIASPORA” […]
Friday Links: They Don’t Want You Around Edition
“George did not sing along but he listened intently to the words of the song. He found them to be the words of a people that must have been constantly […]
Friday Links: Amorak Huey’s Mouth & Other Poems Edition
“I put in a plastic bag / 8 limes, even the plastic / was alive, it used to be / Precambrian vegetables” – Matthew Rohrer, “49” It’s poetry week, but […]
Friday Links: Weirder Functioning Public Transit Edition
“To see something like that, to discover that the world you thought you’d lived in was a lie, a thin shell of respectable rationality over a roiling core of madness?” […]
Friday Links: Functioning Public Transit Edition
“This is not the bus that was foretold to us by the great prophet. This is not the bus to Chicago. This is just a temptation sent by evil doers. […]
Friday Links: Good Books By Good Friends Edition
“If I’d been the one to give his eulogy, write his obituary, I’d have said that.” – Chloe N. Clark, “In The Dark, They Say You Can’t See What’s Coming […]
Friday Links: Anarchism For The Environment Edition
“Billions of people around the world are already responsible for conserving biodiversity, building on the efforts of their ancestors to live harmoniously with the environments they inhabited.” – Ashley Dawson, […]
Friday Links: Surely The Spanish Civil War Teaches Us Nothing About Today Edition
“Who wants to be in an army? Do we make the revolution to be in an army? I am willing to fight but not to be in an army.” – […]
Friday Links: Into The Sea Edition
“The sea is, if anything, famously huge.” – Kathleen Rooney, ‘Man Overboard!’ If your floors do not have sand residue, if your clothes don’t smell vaguely of sunscreen and chlorine, […]
Friday Links: One Big Long Poetry Week Edition
“actually that’s basically the whole story / the end of the potato wedge / is dipped in BBQ sauce and / then transferred to the mouth I” – Jon Woodward, […]