Author: Heavy Feather

“Outside of Our Conscious Control”: PK Eriksson Interviews Donald Platt

One illuminated Letter of Being is a sequence of poems—by turns lyric, narrative, and dramatic—that limn what it means for a son to watch and be fully present as his mother prepares to die. These poems are about living in the midst of death and about dying, “while everything is coming into bloom.” Donald Platt…
Michael Sikkema Haunted Passages Poem: “How to Be a Haunted House”

1 After the first rainshove up what’s beenburied in the flowerbedsThe teeth. The toy trucksThe steak knife 2 Use yourfaceto bendthe others 3 Bleed brighter 4 Stay inthe sharp partof the storyuntil it hurtsright. Findthat smallvoice andstretch it 5 Fog the changes 6 Manifest your walkersin earlier clothes 7 No neon 8 No fanny packs…
“.LAST WORDS.”: Confidant novel excerpt & audio by Pablo D’Stair

… I think I remember the parking lot, the weather, where I was standing with my best friend Goodloe Byron, first describing what would become my second novel, CONFIDANT. I described the project to him as ‘a real shilling shocker, like a 70s era Dario Argento giallo if one was co-authored by Andre Gide’ ……
Weird Pig, a novel by Robert Long Foreman, reviewed by Christina Ghent

Have you ever met pig that is able to talk? How about one that is able to walk upright on two legs? Or how about a pig who is unable to control his urges to steal cars, drink beer, and commit murder? Weird Pig is able to do all of that and more. In fact,…
“Chthonic Poetics”: Mike Corrao on Choi Seungja’s Action Books poetry collection Phone Bells Keep Ringing for Me

In her new book, Phone Bells Keep Ringing for Me, Choi Seungja (translated by Won-Chung Kim & Cathy Park Hong) expresses a poetry of the isolated and overgrown—orated alone in a small house in the wilderness, staring out at the horizon of a post-climate apocalypse. The poems of this new collection fester. Often depicting images…
“Every Theatre Has a Ghost,” a poem for Haunted Passages by Heather Lang-Cassera

—for a former Siegfried & Roy stagehand You were the one to cut the illusionist himself in half with your followspot; to light him at low level; to hold the cable with perfect tension in the dark, before the shift in zenith, and then coil quickly hand over hand; to walk past mirrors, O, such…
Peter Valente Review: Memory, a Siglio Press book by Bernadette Mayer

1. Bernadette Mayer’s Memory contains around 1100 photographs, along with 31 poetic journal entries. Each day for the month of July 1971, Mayer would take photographs, using up a roll of film, and write in her journal: “take pictures for a week, say, then put them away don’t even show them around for a year…
Lost in The Garden (Director’s Cut) by Louis Armand, an 11:11 Press novel reissue, reviewed by Jordan A. Rothacker

Might we partake in hashish and focus a high and light mind on this text that rolls unencumbered of final punctuation for 156 pages we would be as magically transported as if reading while sober: The Garden by Louis Armand is that good. Circling back (as the narrative itself does), it is still important to…
Cindy Savett: Three Haunted Passages Poems

Rachel and Mother Speak Their Lines Clay Mother,drop down through me darkly, lash my winds toyour breast, swaddle my singed urge forendlessness, Blind Mother who stumbles over my ransomed pulse. Rachel, I stagger through trembling grades of your silence,weave torn time with your spent breath; stay etched, child, on my yellow-edge days. Sky Daughter, you…