Queenzenglish, a translingual initiative translating English into English, decolonizes writing and makes the concepts of diversity and pluralism not only legible but palpable. Among the fifty+ perspectives embodied in this dynamic assemblage of poems, prose, performance scores and experimental / theoretical expositions, readers will find various vocal positions resonances, (trans)nationalities and genders, each addressing in its own creative and critical ways questions around standards, power, limitations and aspirations. More... Marie Buck’s new Roof Book Unsolved Mysteries collects a group of short prose pieces that mashup stories from the television show Unsolved Mysteries and her reminiscences growing up in rural South Carolina. Buck’s work unravels not only the mysteries of the TV series, but also how American popular culture portrays the working class. More... The extended title of Evan Kennedy’s new book: I am, am I, to trust the joy that joy is no more or less there now than before describes his subtractive memoir, removing particulars such as time and place to reveal the operations of a spirit and the body it animates. Short lyric essays meditate on routines and habits, as well as elusive pleasures like reading and travel. More...   John Sakkis’ Mirror Magic offers us the riotous in the fullest sense of the word: rife with quick-wit and biting humor, these pages also riot against an ever-crumbling present as it dissolves a future teetering on the cusp of fantastical and apocalyptic; “I tic toc my minutes / NIMBY pansies get butterflies / ‘shadow pollution’ kills birds / so rents go up and over /you laugh at the needles /that stick to your meddling.” More... On July 2, 2015, Ted and I started on a collaboration, which we continued until June 11, 2016, just six days before Ted died. Ted and I exchanged lines back and forth over email, sometimes multiple times in a day and never less than every few days. After a while neither of us could fully separate what each had done, we were blowing together, back and forth, in a duet of, and as, time, bouncing off the moment as if it were a trampoline, tripping out into the eternity of the company, from dark to delight. There was no sense of unnecessary limit, no register we couldn’t play. The experience was of freedom within the constraints we made up intuitively for each poem. – Charles Bernstein More... Lonely Christopher dramatically ended a romantic relationship in Père Lachaise Cemetery on Christmas Day. This intense and trenchant verse series, written about the crisis from one January to the next, uses poetry as durational art. In a January Would tracks a heartbreak and the poet’s ensuing attempt at recovery over the course of a rough year, half of which he spent homeless. Abandoned in an indolent, post-collegiate haze, searching for meaning but more often finding trouble, Christopher clarifies the perverse beauty of a brutal world—from the rooftops of Paris, to the gutters of Brooklyn, across the beaches of Fire Island, and even through the snowy Protestant woods of Connecticut. More...
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