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 …
#NeverTrump: 30 days of poetry by American women, queers, & non-whites. 30/30—Brooks.
from To the Diaspora To Prisoners I call for your cultivation of strength in the dark. …
#NeverTrump: 30 days of poetry by American women, queers, & non-whites. 29/30—Clifton.
miss rosie when I watch you wrapped up like garbage sitting, surrounded by the smell of too old potato …
#NeverTrump: 30 days of poetry by American women, queers, & non-whites. 28/30—Kane.
Epithalamia Butane, propane and lungful of diesel. I did not stand a chance. Always with poison breath, bill, responsibility: …
Favorite Bookish Thing 2016: Gene Wolfe’s Castle of Days
In choosing Gene Wolfe’s Castle of Days, I think: Anybody else touches it, I’ll eat them. (I’d go hungry if it …
#NeverTrump: 30 days of poetry by American women, queers, & non-whites. 27/30—Stetzer.
The Nothing At thirty minutes before it comes, the black sky goes indigo, leafless trees like cracks, fractals, shadowy …
#NeverTrump: 30 days of poetry by American women, queers, & non-whites. 26/30—Wolahan.
Naked Woman, Her Repose A quiet, doleful state between two stages of sleep. Pooling skin purple and yellow, mottled. …
#NeverTrump: 30 days of poetry by American women, queers, & non-whites. 25/30—Spece.
Cat on the Wall Zookeeper, listen: invisibility is a strange success & not mine. de profundis it sings …
#NeverTrump: 30 days of poetry by American women, queers, & non-whites. 24/30—O’Hara.
Thinking of James Dean Like a nickelodeon soaring over the island from sea to bay, two pots of gold, …
#NeverTrump: 30 days of poetry by American women, queers, & non-whites. 23/30—Niedecker.
from Paean to Place River rising—flood Now melt and leave home Return—broom wet naturally wet Under soak-heavy rug water …
Favorite Bookish Thing 2016: Dennigan, Riggs, Place
Invited to Cole’s house for a poetry reading. Claimed a beer—I came empty-handed; moved a table, spoke with Rose Marie …
#NeverTrump: 30 days of poetry by American women, queers, & non-whites. 22/30—[Anonymous fragments]
[‘Over a period of thirty years (1910-1940), a series of Chinese immigrants passing through Angel Island in San Francisco Bay …
#NeverTrump: 30 days of poetry by American women, queers, & non-whites. 21/30—Riding.
from Elegy in a Spider’s Web The genii who cannot cease to know What to say when the spider …
PRESS RELEASE / Vince
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE A SEQUENCE OF DISPERSALS INTO UNCLEAR WATER Owen Vince’s THE ADRIFT OF SAMUS ARAN Portland, OR (15 December …
