5 Media Corporations Enter, 4 Media Corporations Leave: Publishing Beyond Thunderdome
by Hilary Plum
…in the pig shit, listening to Tina Turner…
RECOMMENDED ENGAGEMENTS W/ JON CONLEY
…When I was a sea worm
I never saw the sun,
but flowed, a salty germ,
in the bloodstream of the sea…
HANIF ABDURRAQIB: on Community, Music, Craft
by DT McCrea
“Take Fallout Boy Forever for example…”
USELESSNESS, NONCOMPLIANCE, & DIVESTMENT: POSSIBILITIES OF SURVIVAL UNDER WHITE SUPREMACIST CAPITALISM
by Kamden Hilliard
I admire the tree.
KAM HILLIARD: MEET THE EDITOR!
by Zach Peckham
“I remain whole, mostly in balance…”
SHELLEY FELLER: “amateur drag night…”
by Jon Conley
ON (not) WORKING: A grvlnd ntrvw WITH CLEVELAND PRESS CO-FOUNDERS BRENDAN JOYCE & KEVIN LATIMER
by Zach Peckham
“So that’s been weird.”
RECOMMENDED VIBES FROM THE ZOOM DESK OF LEYNA BOHNING
“I just want to stare at it…”
CONOR BRACKEN: on SCORPIONIC SUN
by Zach Peckham
“It’s audacious—and impossible—but, considering the political implications (that language is a tool for oppression and it bears the residue of its complicity with it), it’s essential.”
TWO VERSIONS of “LAKE IN A STORM”
by Russell Atkins
“the miserable restlessness turned bleak…”
FROM HERE
by Hilary Plum
“…burning the city’s money up in a helicopter...”
ALEN HAMZA: “THE UNDERGROUND”
by Jon Conley
EXALTATION & PANIC: LAUREN SHAPIRO’S ARENA, AN INTERVIEW
by Ali Black
“I wanted to create a world in a poem and then augment that with the immediate and visceral emotions inspired by a ‘real’ image.”
WHAT WE WROTE
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