Psychic Intersections and The Ticket that Exploded Who is the third who walks always beside you? When I count, there are only you and I...

Crossing Out Into Xenon To endure such a rigorous and sustained assault on the essential poetic metaphors is a fierce initiation. --Iain...

Today marks the 75th anniversary of the first atomic blast. In Portland, federal officers in unmarked vehicles have been illegally...

Introduction to a Thought Experiment Of the ideas pitched to help revolutionize how we do poetry publishing, one that appears now and...

Thoughts in the Wake of Uprisings and the Poetry Foundation Controversy In a revolutionary time, the role of the poet can be exposed in...

A Critique of the Literary-Academic System As stated in a previous post, there are political reasons for deciding to freely self-publish...

Poetic Shamanism and the Word as Virus The god of writing is thus also a god of medicine. --Jacques Derrida, “Plato’s Pharmacy” Language...

A Primer on the Work of Michael S. Judge Over the last decade or so, Michael S. Judge has produced a body of literature that is...

I am happy to say I'll be releasing my full length collection of poems, A Dark Address, on Gumroad for free [Update: it is now available...

Child, certain skies have sharpened my eyesight: their characters cast shadows on my face.* Otherness is there from the start. From...

The invisible, whatever that is. As if it didn’t hover above us. Announce itself with blue fire.* The invisible is not nothing. There...

Poetry is an economic paradox: it both is and is not a commodity. While some theorize that its economy is based more on giving than...

In his 1934 essay, “The Author as Producer,” Walter Benjamin sought a revolutionary, anti-fascist literature by arguing that writers must...