To me, the most sensational thing in life, the real trippy thing, is to realize that everyone you know, everyone you hang out with, everyone you’ve ever met: they’re all thinking at all times. To really know that, to really understand that is sensational.
Rumi’s poems shuttle across time, place, belief, and tradition to refresh and guide our wearied spirits
Last Week in End Times Cinema – A. S. Hamrah
Read through a “full year of wrong thinking, bad decisions, and man-made disasters” and you will get some sense of just how dim Hollywood’s lights and luminaries are.
[Catrileo] is interested in impurity as political potentiality
By its very nature the avant garde is unknowable
Supersaurio – Meryem El Mehdati
SUPERSAURIO celebrates the potential of online forms of writing for subversive joy
Hearts, Chainsaws, and Poetry: On Elizabeth R. McClellan’s “Is My Chainsaw a Heart: 13 Centos”
Who keeps us safe all those nights? We do, by the stories we tell and the stories we cut apart, with chainsaws and with hearts.
The Trembling Hand – Mathelinda Nabugodi
Nabugodi resists both melodrama and academic neutrality. Her approach is closer to a physics of feeling
The Sleeping Land – Ella Alexander
Alexander reminds us that the human experience is bound to a rich history, and not just a matter of individual experience.
[World Poetry Books; 2025] Tr. from the German by Ann Cotten and Anna-Isabela Dinwoodie On the nine-hour train ride back to Berlin from Vienna, a young man takes the seat next to me. He asks whether I think it’s safe to leave a suitcase back by the train’s entrance, out of sight from our seats. […]