Category: Poetry

  • Side A: Kristina Andersson Bicher Reads Poems from Marie Lundquist’s I walk around gathering up my garden for the night

    Side A: Kristina Andersson Bicher Reads Poems from Marie Lundquist’s I walk around gathering up my garden for the night

    Situating Marie Lundquist Lundquist’s taut, image-driven, aphoristic poems speak in a contemporary voice but nonetheless offer clarity and stillness in a frenetic world. With a gimlet eye, Lundquist considers the essential mysteries of memory, childhood, love, longing, and existence. While the emotional terrain explored is intense, devastating even, Lundquist’s tone remains at arms-length. The voice…

  • Side A List Poem: “Palm Oil by Any Other Name …” by Kyle Heger

    Side A List Poem: “Palm Oil by Any Other Name …” by Kyle Heger

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  • Poetry: Four Sonnets by Brendan Lorber

    Poetry: Four Sonnets by Brendan Lorber

    I believe in science and also Who gets closer the further they get?         Everyone         believes in science and alsowhy time calls itself a spell        The magic of returning to morning consciousnessis that we do        when the reason we do        is super unavailable       until much later       and is often the answer      a spider trapped in larger spider’s…

  • Original Poem: “A Message to Meg, from the Dead of Night” by Joe O’Brien

    Original Poem: “A Message to Meg, from the Dead of Night” by Joe O’Brien

    I’m texting you this anachronisticpainting of our favorite TV characterto remind us what memories feel like I’m following this feed where they mash up old Simpsons gagswith other old Simpsons gags and then mash those up with Sopranos quotesso I might wring every last droplet of joy that I canfrom whatever I can still wrap…

  • Flavor Town USA Poetry: “Cravings,” an original sonnet by Molly McGrane

    Flavor Town USA Poetry: “Cravings,” an original sonnet by Molly McGrane

    Torn from the ashes we haveold women come to remind us that skinny looks good in dresses but not onfaces. Die with a naked mole rat visage or die of diabetes with a #7 double.In junior high I ate cheese until grease dripped with my tears down my chins. Retirement will hide the animalistic tendencies…

  • “Talk Show Host,” a new hybrid piece for Side A by Chris McCreary

    “Talk Show Host,” a new hybrid piece for Side A by Chris McCreary

    Talk Show Host bombs his monologue. Checks his notes, blinks meaningfully into camera two. Talk Show Host throws his desk out the window. It hits the trampoline, bounces back onto his lap. Talk Show Host puts on his therapist’s cap, but the guests have removed their mics their mouths faces & eyes they’ve receded behind…

  • “Ashenfolk”: William Lessard Interviews Joseph Mosconi + 6 Exclusive Poems

    “Ashenfolk”: William Lessard Interviews Joseph Mosconi + 6 Exclusive Poems

    Joseph Mosconi is a writer, editor, and curator based in Los Angeles. A former Google computational linguist, he is the executive director of the Poetic Research Bureau (PRB), a hybrid arts space that hosts weekly readings, performances, and films by today’s most progressive poets and artists. Mosconi is also a co-founder and programmer at 2220…

  • Side A Material Collaboration: “Sleep Takes More and More of Us” by Philip Lindsey & Matt McBride

    Side A Material Collaboration: “Sleep Takes More and More of Us” by Philip Lindsey & Matt McBride

    Sleep Takes More and More of Us Mini-interview with Philip Lindsey & Matt McBride HFR: Can you share a moment that has shaped you as collaborators (or continues to)? PL: Matt and I met in my studio one evening over a couple of beers to talk about ideas, art, and a way into the project.…

  • Poetry: “Ode to Broken Birthdays and an Empty High Noon Can” by Samantha Cross

    Poetry: “Ode to Broken Birthdays and an Empty High Noon Can” by Samantha Cross

    I don’t know if it was the combined birthday partiesWith the Daytona 500 for Alex and me as children,Or being told to shut up when I playedMy saxophone that fateful night in sixth grade.Maybe it was the standardized testing that took placeThe first week of March in Connecticut,Where the governorFailed to recognize the importanceOf in-class…