The
Editorial
We
are all failures. Ye readers of poetry are all no-good vagrants. Poets
themselves? Losers. The editors of this journal? Bums. Roommates? Coworkers?
Friends? Deadbeats. Castaways. Derelicts. Each of us is more privy to
the almost infinite ways in which we ourselves have degenerated into
the charged depths of insolvent never-wasland. But what we may not realize
is the brutal optimism lurking behind total disintegration. To have
nothing left but ruin is a completely propitious point from which to
start: our still being here despite catastrophe means there was nothing
to lose in the first place, all our fears were unfounded. Most people
pretend their life is good enough. But you are not most people. You
know that despite everything you’ve been taught, embracing ruin
is a necessary first move in the....
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POEMS
& ROUGH DRAFTS
Alex Galper • Benjamin Schwalke • Bernadette Mayer •
Brett Evans • Cliff Fyman • Dave Brinks • David Pemberton
• Edwin Torres • Eileen Myles • Fred Yannantuono •
Heather Green • Jennifer Brown • Jessica Fiorini • Jim
Behrle • LS Asekoff • Lauren Ireland • Liz Colville
• Mark Wallace • Rodney Phillips • Ryan Collins •
Sandra Simonds • Sarah Rosenthal • Scott Hammer • Shafer
Hall • Shira Dentz • Susan Lewis • Tracey McTague •
Todd Colby
VISUALS
David Borchart • Elizabeth Zechel • Nikita Mikros •
Sharon Mesmer • Silke Schöner • Tracey McTague •
William Betts
PUZZLE
Jen Robinson
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Anthony Hawley• Chris Martin • Chris Stroffolino • Claudia
Lorber (mom) • Gilberto Serpentine • H.H.Horowitz •
James Behrle, Jr. • James Lavin • John Kingman • Julie
Reid • Kat Soleil • Kevin Carollo • Lynne Hjelmgaard
• Mike Topp • Pango Diner • Phil Johnson • Rachael
Rakes • Rex Redchenko • Rodrigo Toscano • Stephen Ratcliffe
• Susan Firer • Thadd Rutkowski • Will Edmiston •
Yonina Rosenbaum • and many more...
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