When visiting my parents, I streamed a television show, "genera+ion," in which a character encountered a brief, beautiful, queer love—all at the age of seventeen. I was so moved after witnessing the ease in which this pair approached one another, I stood up. Full of feeling as if it were happening to me. Time compressed. I went to sleep in my childhood bedroom after. Everything good felt possible in a space where once anything good had felt impossible. (The earliest seed of this poem was inspired by Xan Forest Phillips.)
Steffan Triplett on "Rewind" |
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Small Press Community Surviving Distributor's Failure
"A little more than three months after Small Press Distribution abruptly closed, leaving some 400 independent presses without a trade distributor, publishers and distributors alike are moving forward even as damage assessment continues. Approximately 25% of the stranded publishers have found new distributors: Asterism Books has signed about 80 presses, Itasca Books has onboarded 21, and Independent Publishers Group has taken on 11."
via PUBLISHERS WEEKLY |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Hua Xi on Language as Form
"Each stanza introduces a new scene and in doing so, a new plane of thought. Sipping tea, the necessity of money. caves, arteries….appear in turn. Each of these subjects raise new questions, but in continuation with each other, like the formation of some secret pattern. There is something in the poem which 'touches itself everywhere at once,' as Kapil writes, a preponderance of edges but not jagged or sharp ones." |
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