Maybe Vivisection
This malaise and the fatigue of late summer—how to know its fat underside? I am in a thing. Worse: I …
PRESS RELEASE / Spece
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE LENGTH OF THIS GORE Joseph Spece’s BAD ZOO Boston, MA (18 July 2018)—Fathom Books is pleased to announce …
SPIRIT BLAST: Lucille Clifton’s “won’t you celebrate with me”
[SPIRIT BLAST is looking at poems through a bartender’s eye. —Ed] What’s this? Surprise by an ingredient you thought you …
Mrinalini Harchandrai’s A Bombay In My Beat
On a rainy day in Bombay, I am listening to the sui generis jazz measures of Alfa Mist’s Antiphon. The …
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, …
