Broadcast, Susan Gevirtz
Susan Gevirtz lives and teaches in San Francisco. Her recent books include Aerodrome Orion & Starry Messenger, forthcoming Kelsey Street, 2009; Thrall, Post Apollo, 2007; Hourglass Transcripts, Burning Deck, 2001.
Leukadia, E. Tracy Grinnell
E. Tracy Grinnell is the author of Helen: A Fugue (Belladonna Books Elder Series #1 with Leslie Scalapino, 2008), Some Clear Souvenir (O Books 2006) and Music or Forgetting (O Books 2001), as well as the limited edition chapbooks Humoresque (Dusi/e-chap kollectiv, 2008), Hell and Lower Evil (Lyre Lyre Pants on Fire Press, 2008), Quadriga, a collaboration with Paul Foster Johnson (gong chapbooks, 2006), Of the Frame (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, 2004), and Harmonics (Melodeon Poetry Systems, 2000). She has taught creative writing at Brown University and Pratt Institute, and expository writing at Hunter College and other New York City universities. Since 2001, she has edited Litmus Press and its annual journal of poetry and translation, Aufgabe. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
The Outer Bay, Jared Stanley
Jared Stanley's The Outer Bay is 23 poems written in Merced, California in the SUMMER. The Outer Bay is a real estate term for Merced, realtors looking at forms of the Real. In these poems, the Real makes blisters and wrinkles. Its nature, trains that blare; its mind, a head of the town that gets kicked in. Political poems in a landscape of sensuous garage sales and actual trees. The dirty west of nostalgia, rope burns on the eyes: a mental music lush and troubling. Like water rationing, this is for the benefit of every California citizen. —Lauren Levin
Blank Missives, Esther Lee
Dear _________filled,
Who else but humans invent the counterfeit fossil. I’m convinced we’ll infest this or this one. I’ll learn you, he says, my jaw dislodging like a sink from the wall. Unboyfriendable, the online dating service tells my friend’s friend. These days our bodies upholster the couch, the table, whatever furniture we may soil. As Seidel wrote, “I believe in nothing I do / believe in you...”
Yours,
__________filled