Fond & Ferguson’s “Coq au Vin”
I worked as non-fiction editor and columnist at Andrew Saavedra’s first magazine, Noble / Gas Qtrly. It shuttered in 2019, …
Living with Youna Kwak’s sur vie
The most unique editorial acclamation you achieve running a poetry press is this: knowing the violet slough. You pay careful …
An Interview with Youna Kwak
You took graduate degrees in both creative writing and French. Do these passions intersect? One passion, myriad forms: theory, poetry, …
Perspectives on Fathom’s second longbook, BAD ZOO
At Berfrois, Scherezade Siobhan writes a rich travelogue, touching on encounters with the poems in BAD ZOO: The house where I spent …
dreamlessness, [i]
She will not let her calf sink to the sea floor. She will not take her to sea-shelf edge and …
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? Surprised 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 …
