Author: Heavy Feather

Three Poems by Jessica Abughattas

Attachment (fearful-avoidant) Our half-drunk glasses of Cava by the kitchen sink. Smashing stems into the dust until my knuckles are bloodied. Opening the cupboard for more ammo. My roommate picking me up by the shards a soaked towel at my temples. Remembering the night we swallowed pills, danced a city into the living room. Singing…
Two Poems by Diego Quintero

Yankees The fall of a sound a shirt wrapped in sweat, the mouth the tooth both conjugated with spasm in flesh Sing my love, please sing the flesh made for each other inside each other. And Mom? And the house? She didn’t know of singular professions; the subtle act of bullfighting or playing out…
“The day woke with a (*)”: Xan Schwartz Reads Sheila McMullin’s daughterrarium

Sheila McMullin’s collection daughterrarium immediately piques the reader’s interest with a perfectly placed asterisk. The strange natural imagery and experimental form in “Tapering” introduce both mystery and play, two ideas that stream throughout the collection. My sister also said * we think because of our mother; (I) feared * and (I) held (I) Interrupted *: Many…
“Sometimes I tried never to think about the past. Sometimes I tried always to think about the past.”: Jackson Nieuwland Reviews This Paper Boat by Gregory Kan

We are often told that every first book is an autobiography. With This Paper Boat, Gregory Kan subverts this expectation. This book-length sequence of poems intertwines Kan’s autobiographical writing with the work of Iris Wilkinson (a New Zealand writer who published under the name Robin Hyde in the 1930s), as well as other found language.…
Five Poems from Monologues in the Era of the Monologist: Julie Strand

Ego Eco Iceberg: In the Dreamscape of the Monologist Bigly I love you. Bigly because the density of pure ice is about 920 kg/m³. Bigly I swear, that the density of seawater is 1025 kg/m³, is bigly you know. And bigly I hate you, but bigly I care. Bigly because most of me is above…
“You Remember, Don’t You?”: Meghan Lamb Reviews Harold Abramowitz’s Blind Spot

This book has built a space to wander through. The narrator is going to wander. The reader may follow him, if they so choose. The narrator will not prohibit them from following, nor will he take their hand, nor explain where he’s going, nor why he is looking wherever he’s looking. This book has…
“Your Tongue Will Berate You”: An Interview with Vi Khi Nao by Hillary Leichter

When you open the first pages of Fish in Exile, it is clear: you are conversing with a poet. Language is effortless and strange, glorious in its dexterity and rhythm. Each sentence has the capability to corner you, kiss you, crush you. This is story of Ethos and Catholic, a husband and wife who are…
Aaron Seward on Colin Dodds’ Novel Watershed

A question of paternity. A mysterious billionaire of profound depravity. A part-time call girl whose mythic beauty is up for grabs. A washed up artist breeding snakes to make ends meet. A near-future America bloated with big government and digital media, teetering on the brink of its own tackiness, about as prestigious as a fart.…
Excerpt: My Shadow Book by Maawaam (Edited by Jordan A. Rothacker)

Editor’s Preface: In the summer of 2011 I discovered Maawaam’s being in a box. The form his being took in that box was in journals, scraps of paper, scribbled on leaves, photographs, and drawings. The journals were the most significant abundance of being. For the last six years I have studied his being in the…