only an instant: the time that it takes for their faces to fall apart () oh, the distance that…
From “Disorientations,” by Michael Leong
My teacher said nothing is never not entangled in emptiness. Even the perpetual “bullet-like” trajectories of the sacred. Or…
Barzakh
The literary magazine Barzakh has a newly designed website and has just opened a new reading period. Submit fiction, poetry, non-fiction,…
Fence Digital Launch: Sunday, July 16, 2017, 8:00pm – 10:00pm / Ör, 35 South 3rd Street, Hudson, NY
Fence Books will be launching a new imprint Fence Digital tonight in Hudson, NY. This Sunday at 8 p.m. at…
Barzakh: Call for Submissions
I’m the faculty adviser for the online magazine Barzakh, which recently announced a new call for submissions for their upcoming…
Some Anagrams for Abbas Kiarostami (1940-2016)
I’ve been thinking of master film-maker Abbas Kiarostami. Here are some anagrams–with adjusted punctuation–of the titles of some of my…
Vanessa Place’s “It’s Kind of Fucked Up” (2015)
What do we make of Vanessa Place’s curious presence in the special dossier “On Race and Innovation” that Dawn Lundy…
Barzakh: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS!
The editorial staff at Barzakh is happy to announce that submissions for Issue 8 are now open! As a multigenre,…
Why bpNichol Still Matters
Last month, the New York Times ran an interesting piece by Alexandra Alter with the heavily alliterative and assonantal title…