Feature/ Yoko OK Spins a Community Comics Web
Reviews by Tony Tone Plica Fimbriata #238 pages, full color, $12Textured Elevation #144 pages, full color, $12Yoko OK When something spins really fast, like a tornado, a spiral galaxy, or...
Comics/ Yoko is More than A-OK: On Zines, Mental Health, and Collaboration
Interview by Sara LautmanI've known Yoko OK and her work since 2008. Our projects together (the longest running being our bands, Lady Bright and Tight Little Ship) pushed me into...
Fiction/ Rachel Aydt
Jugs of Water [su_pullquote align="right"]‘I used to take a moment at the pump to bend down and tie my shoes, but they’ve rotted into strips and I’ve let them go, like...
Printed Matter/ The Chronic (Pain): Berkowitz Speaks for Those Who Can’t
Review by Jill Stengel Tender Points Amy Berkowitz Nightboat Books This story, Tender Points, is a true story. It is autobiographical. It is also a biography, of chronic pain. It...
Printed Matter/ ‘Read Slow. This is a bombshell’: Appreciating John Wieners’ Selected Letters
by Jim Dunn Yours Presently: The Selected Letters of John Wieners edited by Seth Stewart University of New Mexico Press In the first letter in The Selected Letters of John...
Printed Matter/ Beasley Ups and Explodes, Over and Over
Review by Bevil TownsendMade to ExplodeSandra BeasleyW.W. Norton & Company Sandra Beasley’s latest book, Made to Explode, is a vital force for understanding humanity during these times of unrest. In the...
Poetry/ Ivy Johnson
In another life I was a dancer I liked to whirl myself into a gauzy cocoon I performed dolefully sometimes Broadening beyond the brink of the stage Spectators called this...
Poetry/ Edward Sanders
ED SANDERS is a poet and performer whose roots go back to the Beats. During the Vietnam War, he was active in the antiwar movement and founded the Peace Eye...
Poetry/ Buck Downs
scabrosa trying to catch up to the blunt-force typing I promised myself -- my true vocation -- this data entry that makes nobody money I had been curious about the...
Poetry/ Sean Cole
From "The February Sonnets 2020" February 6 David tore my last poem into quarters after I’d read it to the part of America that isn’t David. I tore up...