PRESS RELEASE / Lewis
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE EVERYTHING AS IT IS BITTER HERB Julia Rose Lewis’ How to Hypnotize a Lobster Boston, MA (4 June …
10 Acts: Ought Art Be Self-Expressive?
— Self conforms to One’s own. Lacan’s minions would sputter: Cell of. I. Mine. Excavation. Troves of veins. A quelled …
Thinking About Lucie Brock-Broido
Snow’s holding off in Massachusetts. Five hours ago came notice from Columbia that Lucie Brock-Broido had died. Work’s been called …
Convenient Morbidity
A very lean and cautious love wants to talk limits. Some writers of Writing are so so lean, full of …
Rocket Caleshu’s “The State”
In his “A Sense of Measure,” Robert Creeley discusses what one’s ‘given to write’: ‘No merely intellectual program can find …
SHARKPACK Annual 2017’s LIVE, PLUS.
We wondered: what’s the long poem looking like these days? We haven’t read many. Our spelunking’s turned up SHARKPACK Annual: Longform. Web …
Tedious Callers + Wraiths
A rapping at the door with fist’s rhythm—or worse, with a knocker. Lève la tête and open. Aha, it’s a …
machine poetic_v_1
The dog looks through my looking at him; butternut-coloured, an electric yellow strand clasped around its neck. The dog—a shiba …
Malpaís / Badlands / Majesty
I don’t go to poems for skillful ease or what’s rote. I come seeking an empathic witness, what the Sufi calls ruhul seyrani—the …
ANNOUNCING: SHARKPACK Annual‘s BotN Nominees, 2017
In hopes of securing our outstanding contributors more readers, the editor has nominated the following texts from our “The Night” …
Cassie Pruyn’s “Traveler’s Monologue”
‘[. . .] in whose crook’—that is, stolen moment—’I once discovered the most complete of all moments’—that italicized phrase, like the …
Kamden Hilliard’s “A Clutch of Tony”
This Kamden Hilliard’s “A Clutch of Tony” reads terribly wrong: all that iffy spacing and whipped-round apostrophes, misspellings + elisions, …
NEWS: PITCH VIPER PRIZE-winner Announced
Final judge Laura Goode has selected Julia Rose Lewis’ How to Hypnotize a Lobster as the winner of Fathom’s PITCH VIPER PRIZE …
NEWS: PITCH VIPER PRIZE Finalists
Fathom very happily announces the finalists for the PITCH VIPER PRIZE, calling for experimental shortbooks: Julia Rose Lewis’ How to Hypnotize …
Linda Russo’s “Plant Light Situating”
datableedzine is publishing important work, & upon very first read became a glossy of weight. In their fourth issue, Linda Russo’s …
NEWS: Adams-Santos’ Swarm Queen’s Crown shortlisted for Lambda Literary Award
Fathom Books is very pleased to announce that Stephanie Adams-Santos’ first longbook of poetry, Swarm Queen’s Crown, is a finalist for …
LITTLE #NeverTrump COMPENDIUM: Celebrating some poems by American women, queers, & non-whites
Stephanie ADAMS-SANTOS, “In a Night” [Anonymous], Five fragments Reinaldo ARENAS, “As Long as the Sky Whirls” Paula BOHINCE, “Brutally, the …
