Editors' Notes

Maria Damon and Michelle Greenblatt
Jim Leftwich and Michelle Greenblatt
Sheila E. Murphy and Michelle Greenblatt

A Visual Conversation on Michelle Greenblatt's ASHES AND SEEDS with Stephen Harrison, Monika Mori | MOO, Jonathan Penton and Michelle Greenblatt

Letters for Michelle: with work by Jukka-Pekka Kervinen, Jeffrey Side, Larry Goodell, mark hartenbach, Charles J. Butler, Alexandria Bryan and Brian Kovich

Visual Poetry by Reed Altemus
Poetry by Glen Armstrong
Poetry by Lana Bella
A Eulogic Poem by John M. Bennett
Elegic Poetry by John M. Bennett
Poetry by Wendy Taylor Carlisle
A Eulogy by Vincent A. Cellucci
Poetry by Vincent A. Cellucci
Poetry by Joel Chace
A Spoken Word Poem and Visual Art by K.R. Copeland
A Eulogy by Alan Fyfe
Poetry by Win Harms
Poetry by Carolyn Hembree
Poetry by Cindy Hochman
A Eulogy by Steffen Horstmann
A Eulogic Poem by Dylan Krieger
An Elegic Poem by Dylan Krieger
Visual Art by Donna Kuhn
Poetry by Louise Landes Levi
Poetry by Jim Lineberger
Poetry by Dennis Mahagin
Poetry by Peter Marra
A Eulogy by Frankie Metro
A Song by Alexis Moon and Jonathan Penton
Poetry by Jay Passer
A Eulogy by Jonathan Penton
Visual Poetry by Anne Elezabeth Pluto and Bryson Dean-Gauthier
Visual Art by Marthe Reed
A Eulogy by Gabriel Ricard
Poetry by Alison Ross
A Short Movie by Bernd Sauermann
Poetry by Christopher Shipman
A Spoken Word Poem by Larissa Shmailo
A Eulogic Poem by Jay Sizemore
Elegic Poetry by Jay Sizemore
Poetry by Felino A. Soriano
Visual Art by Jamie Stoneman
Poetry by Ray Succre
Poetry by Yuriy Tarnawsky
A Song by Marc Vincenz


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"Contentment: Underbelly of a Growl," "Poets Murdering Nova," and "After the Drum Jam"
by Belinda Subraman, June 2015
"keeping one eye
out of the whirlpool
learning hell is velocity
without controls."

sonnets from 555
by John Lowther, June 2015
"Water is a well known example of such a material.
And I even dislike hot dogs.
While we don't expect everyone to be immediately comfortable with this type of
exploration, we do want to make it clear that it's perfectly acceptable and
in no way strange or perverse."

"ghost porn," "borderline," and "committed"
by Dylan Krieger, June 2015
"I'm the borderline hoarder bored gargoyles cum quick to haunt w/ their crouching hindquarters
in the attic dust, I'm not afraid to say I found an alien musk that sent me undressing my ancestors
one by one into ovens of rust—here's your bundled lump sum: crunch the numbers down &
ground them into backhands of rabid distrust. on the path back to straight & near-loved, I wake"

"The Bright Threat of Attention," "Surefire Glare of Recognition," and "Afire with Purpose"
by Kaia Sand, June 2015
"But your face!
your face exposed
to the bright threat
of attention

"Tall," "Anew," and "Miss Confederate America"
by Sheila E. Murphy, June 2015
"The nominee will be afforded a warm bed, lemon tea, and practiced sleep to term. A limber way of mind, the rest stop freed of urgency. Meantime, absence mimes the inner workings of a winter freed of crispness, tiny wind descended from autumnal reflex."

"Ficus Sutra I," "Ficus Sutra Two," and "For What Matter"
by mIEKAL aND and Maria Damon, June 2015
"Leaved, symmetrical, carefully x-bitten, an O-mind inscribed for an age to come. Sitting, sitting next the echelon of simple pauses, between which clarity clears. Leaf stitched on leaf, sutra sutured, breath plied on breath, bones piled on bones."

selections from Coastal Elements
by Michael Ruby, June 2015
"open on mothballs soup eaten taken hesitated
to minimize before magazine waterfalls awful
mountain of despair love hotel chew sincere
outstanding incognito hellbent furniture hotel"

selections from Scorpions
by Joel Chace, June 2015
"Repentance did not come easily. Conveniently,
they'd all blown their noses before entering
the grand reception room. The crack of doom might be
where the line will end..."

selections from Florula Ludoviciana, a botanical cut-up of Louisiana
by Marthe Reed, June 2015
Marthe Reed is the author of five books: Nights Reading (Lavender Ink 2014), pleth, a collaboration with j hastain (Unlikely Books 2013), (em)bodied bliss (Moria Books 2013), Gaze (Black Radish Books 2010) and Tender Box, A Wunderkammer (Lavender Ink 2007). She has published chapbooks as part of the Dusie Kollektiv, as well as with above/ground press and Shirt Pocket Press.

Two Visual Poems by mIEKAL aND
June 2015
mIEKAL aND is a DIY cultural anarchist and creator of verbo-visual literature, audio art, and hypermedia, distributed by Xexoxial Editions.

Four Visual Poems by John M. Bennett and Jim Leftwich
June 2015
John M. Bennett was editor and publisher of Lost and Found Times (1975-2005), and is Curator of the Avant Writing Collection at The Ohio State University Libraries. Jim Leftwich is the author of Dirt, Doubt, Sample Example, The Textasifsuch, Death Text, Short Sorties, Shrimp Teeth, Trashpo, An Ecology, SO FOR BY, Lest Puke Due Machete of Art, and Six Months Aint No Sentence.

Thirty-Five Visual Poems by Jukka-Pekka Kervinen
June 2016
Jukka-Pekka Kervinen is a Finnish composer, writer and visual artist.

"The Deadly Sins"
by Marc Vincenz, Larissa Shmailo, and Philip Nikolayev, January 2015
"But virtue's its own mess
and I just must confess
I like sin's fun Augean Stable."

"weaponry"
by Joseph Farley, January 2015
"silver bullets
and guns of gold"

"Bonfire of Psychoanalysis"
by Jeff Harrison, January 2015
"you could play
chess with the
shadier elements
of her story"

"Trouble in the Yard: a poetry prose sestina"
by Danielle Susi, January 2015
"When we were young, we'd hop those fences trying hard not to make even a silent sound. We'd make our way through the maps of yards careful to never let our tennis shoed feet touch concrete."

"Leftovers"
by Steve Klepetar, January 2015
"Only now does day break
open in the crashing of their touch."

"Spring Step"
by Willie Smith, January 2015
"April, and fucking are the flies.
Now it rains. Now Poppa
into Momma Fly pops."

"Janvier"
by Jane Hurd Cahane, January 2015
"but still joy gapes at you, arresting
your muddied consciousness,
bellowing at you
in the midst of your scurried plans"

"#22618 Arboreal Man"
by David Matthews, January 2015
"When Post-Arboreal Man
first stumbled into some idea
Enlightenment for instance
he first was often unnerved"

"The Statue of Liberty Is a Moldy Tennis Court"
Visual Poetry by Jason Wilkinson, January 2015
"...i saw you naked;
smile in the melting asphalt..."

"The Caves of Hassan-i-Sabbah"
Visualish Poetry by Vernon Frazer, January 2015
"...spreads the communal distillation, ready for the parvenu of dissonant acrostic demons lurking photogenic osprey wagons in receipt the transfer flagons wept a caustic heave no gleam to sudden..."

"Gaudy" and "Unravel"
by Priscilla Galligan, January 2015
"Denying the arrival of anniversaries
I enlisted the weathered man
and watched his unraveling scarf"

"The Sherman Anti-Trust Act" and "Platform of the American Anti-Imperialist League:" Twenty-First Century Editions
by Michael Ceraolo, January 2015
'"We propose to contribute
to the defeat of any person or party
that stands for the forcible subjugation of any people,"'

"The Best for Me" and "Singing the Blues"
by Peycho Kanev, January 2015
"It was Sunday then.
No church, just whiskey and beer.
Whiskey and beer, the guitar behind us,
silent like a beehive in January."

"The Bloodhounds" and "Searching For Nelson Algren"
by Doug Draime, January 2015
"We heard the bloodhounds in the
distance. The report over the radio
said the convict escaped from
the county jail, where he was being
held for three murders committed upstate."

"Benign Protection" and "The Deepest Part of Dark"
by Anne Elezabeth Pluto, January 2015
"My first love came
last night in the deepest
part of dark to welcome
me—and spoke of visits..."

"Female Reproductive Systems"
Visual Poetry by Anne Elezabeth Pluto and Bryson Dean, January 2015
"They could be girls names, recited
in Latin to call up Mary or the Devil..."

"The River of Light" and "Silentbrain"
by Joe Nicholas, January 2015
"It sleeps between all things,
           holding itself gently,
with no
known aim,"

"beginnings" and "notes"
by R.D. McManes, January 2015
            "what is left behind
are traces of originality
faint outlines of pretend
everything changes"

"8000 to 1 Ghazal" and "Aboriginal Lament"
by Dennis Mahagin, January 2015
"as Doubt doubly
stained by indigo, by hope:
some news print soaked
with black foam
in the grain."

"Hero of the Absurd" and "To My Ex-boyfriend's Heroin Dealer"
by Aurelia Lorca, January 2015
"After 18 years,
and losing his hearing,
my cat became a narcissist."

Two Terrestrial Illuminations by Duane Locke
January 2015
"What seemed bright, as dazzling
As Persephone' white gold hair

Before turning to grey decay by a god's theft,
Was found to be false, a wig of corn tassels."

"Deus Ex Machina" and "Freudian Stimuli for the Violent"
by Craig Podmore, January 2015
"The dead.
On conveyor belts.
Prayers in the form of TV static."

"Wedding Bell Blues" and "Smile Empty Soul"
by Howie Good, January 2015
'Overhead a small plane towed a banner that said, SMILE EMPTY SOUL ALBUM IN STORES NOW! The prettiest of the Belgian exchange students looked at me with big, empty eyes, as though she wanted to ask, "How can a mosquito fly in the rain?" but couldn't.'

"The Noble Bandit" and "Light Lunch"
by Mark Kerstetter, January 2015
"The truth is, I am adjacent
to truth-taking stares every day
What good to dive head-
long? I'll choke on minnows."

Two Poems by Marc Thompson
January 2015
"black dogs
roam the clinic hallways
growl softly
at the doctors"

"hot house" and "roaming skeletal remains of rust belt ghost town"
by mark hartenbach, January 2015
"like wittenstein in his shack—, i'm enlightened in janitorial
splendor. i'm meditating atop a toolbox—the closest i'll ever
get to mountaintop satori. the nearest i'll come to the transcendental
pipeline. this praying mantic pose comes naturally..."

"Fear of a Narrative Planet" and "A Brief History of Venus"
by Glen Armstrong, January 2015
"She was empty
        except for the bird in her belly.
She was milk
        except for her fear of soda straws."

"of and off the page" and "landscape, or an aroma of breath..."
by Jill Darling, January 2015
"Ophelia I heard you in the train, your tangles, your roses lament and screech
into and out of the station. Blood of insufficiency or rain, a misread sigh, curse
of detail, anatomy, politics. I have decided it fits like a metaphor. A glove a leaf
a melody. Clarity nuanced like distant sound from every direction."

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