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FEATURED
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David-Baptiste Chirot
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NECESSITY IS THE MOTHERFUCKER OF INVENTION
thoughts on the delete button |
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THE NEW EXTREME EXPERIMENTAL AMERICAN POETRY
a gallery featuring the visual works of poet, artist, and human rights activist David-Baptiste Chirot |
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| Jared Schickling, David-Baptiste Chirot | FINDING THE ROOOT an interview conducted by Jared Schickling with David-Baptiste Chirot that will make you remember and forget and remember |
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| REVIEWS AND COMMENTARY |
Raul Clement
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THE UNBEARABLE TIGHTNESS OF JEANS: THE ‘SCENE’ AS SOCIOLINGUISTIC CONSTRUCT
an investigation by Raul Clement into what makes the Portland music scene so indie-pendent |
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Okla Elliott
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ON THE STREET OF CROCODILES
an interview with Ralph Nader’s extremely well-read 2008 vice presidential candidate, Matt Gonzalez, conducted by Okla Elliott |
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SOME DARKER BOUQUETS
a roundtable on the state of contemporary poetry criticism responding to an open letter by Kent Johnson, including responses by David Orr, Maureen McLane, Don Share, Eric Lorberer, Ange Mlinko, and roughly two dozen others |
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Jared Schickling
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THE AVOIDANCE CANON RECENTLY RELEASED
documents conceived by Jared Schickling wherein fiction turns the critique more skjh ec tn xx and critique turns the fiction more skjh ec tx as well as hilarious |
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| TRANSLATIONS | Abdellatif Laâbi, translated by Gordon Hadfield and Nancy Hadfield | THE JACKAL’S BAPTISM drama by Abdellatif Laâbi, translated by Gordon Hadfield and Nancy Hadfield |
| Boccaccio, translated by David R. Slavitt | THE DARK VALLEY from Boccaccio’s Eclogues, translated by David R. Slavitt |
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| PROSE | lyrical entries from Dan Beachy-Quick’s marvelous investigation of Melville and metaphysics, A Whaler’s Dictionary | TIME |
| three more lovely microfictions, by Paula Carter | MOORING STONES | |
| three insistent microfictions by Steve Davenport | SLOWEST, FATTEST CURVE BALL IN HISTORY | |
| a fictional letter written to Kyle Minor with three mathematical equations | BRONWYN STEELE TALKS LUNCH MONEY | |
| two more prosies, or did I dream that, by Chuck Richardson | LOVE IS A BLACK HOLE | |
| a frequently-impolite excerpt from the forthcoming novel by Mark Spitzer | CHODE! | |
| POETRY | poetry by M. C. Armstrong | |
| poetry by Katie Atkinson | LA SIRENA | |
| poems for a bacchanal by Jerrod Bohn | GOATSPEAK | |
| an excerpt from Ore, the third book of Christophe Casamassima’s Proteus Cycle | ORE | |
| poems by David Dasher | ADAM’S LETTER TO LILITH | |
| poetry by David Gibbs | VISITING THE MODERN ART MUSEUM | |
| poems by Sean Karns | MY FATHER’S POTATO DEATH | |
| a poem written in the world’s southernmost town by a poet named Jillian Weise | MARCEL ADDRESSES KATE (AS HE WOULD IF HE COULD) |
