Category: Visual

  • Bad Survivalist: “DON’T CHIDE THE HOOTCH” & other RIP VW erasure/collages by Nance Van Winckel

    Bad Survivalist: “DON’T CHIDE THE HOOTCH” & other RIP VW erasure/collages by Nance Van Winckel

    *Ed.’s Note: click images to view larger sizes. Nance Van Winckel’s ninth poetry collection, The Many Beds of Martha Washington, is just out with the Pacific Northwest Poetry Series/Lynx House Press. She’s also published a book of visual poems with Pleiades Press (2016) and five books of fiction, most recently Ever Yrs, a novel in the form…

  • Side A: “The Borg EP,” a comic by Rachel Busnardo

    Side A: “The Borg EP,” a comic by Rachel Busnardo

    *Ed.’s Note: click image to view larger size. The Borg EP Mini-interview with Rachel Busnardo HFR: Can you share a moment that has shaped you as a writer (or continues to)? RB: There are lots of moments that have shaped me as a writer, some big, but many were very, very small little pin pricks…

  • Excerpt from SCARLET: Three Glitched Still Lives by Francesco Levato

    Excerpt from SCARLET: Three Glitched Still Lives by Francesco Levato

    *Ed.’s Note: click images to view larger sizes. SCARLET is a digital visual/poetic meditation on the fractured state of psyche induced by extended social isolation under COVID-19 lockdown. The digital/visual poems are created through erasure of the novel The Scarlet Plague collaged with glitched imagery from everyday life in lockdown. The titles of poems in…

  • Side A Video Poem Collaboration by Penn Kemp & Gary Barwin: “The Female Line”

    Side A Video Poem Collaboration by Penn Kemp & Gary Barwin: “The Female Line”

    A note on the media: Gary Barwin created the video poem in collaboration with Canadian poet Penn Kemp. Kemp wrote the text but Barwin set it with music and visuals and they both performed it.  The Female Line Some small part of us is held in our mother’s egg whenshe is in our grandmother’s womb,    …

  • Poems & Mixed Media by Jeffrey Grunthaner from Vol. 9

    Poems & Mixed Media by Jeffrey Grunthaner from Vol. 9

    *Ed.’s Note: click images to view larger sizes. Revisions For the moment he does summertime with an alexandrine mounted in air,inscribed in a space of appropriation—a hundred-foot colossus in black colorsof the sea, or sea anemone from an immensely high beam leaping down with agreat flourish of dust. Rode into focus on a saddleless little…

  • From Vol. 9: “MATH DEATH,” a short comic by Dustin Holland

    From Vol. 9: “MATH DEATH,” a short comic by Dustin Holland

    *Ed.’s Note: click image to view larger size. Dustin Holland lives and works in northern Colorado where he and his brother make The Holland Boys Zine (patreon.com/hollandboyszine).

  • Side A Video Poem: Catherine Heard & Gary Barwin’s THE MOST CHARMING CREATURES

    Side A Video Poem: Catherine Heard & Gary Barwin’s THE MOST CHARMING CREATURES

    Music was created by Barwin using Max/MSP programming language abstracting the recording of the spoken text into a haunting soundworld of ambiguous time, measured by the subterranean sound of a beating heart. Mini-interview with Catherine Heard & Gary Barwin HFR: Can you share a moment that has shaped you as collaborators (or continues to)? GB:…

  • The Future: “The Wormhole Nextdoor,” a short story by Tara Campbell

    The Future: “The Wormhole Nextdoor,” a short story by Tara Campbell

    A story about potholes, black holes, wormholes, and cats, told in the form of a Nextdoor thread, in hope of a friendly interstellar future. Click on the animated GIF to begin! Or click here to read “The Wormhole Nextdoor.” Tara Campbell (taracampbell.com) is a writer, teacher, Kimbilio Fellow, and fiction editor at Barrelhouse. She received…

  • MM/DD/2020: Three Residuals from RESIDUE

    MM/DD/2020: Three Residuals from RESIDUE

    *Ed.’s Note: click images to view larger sizes. These pieces are from the book Residue (forthcoming 05/01/2021), a text/image collaboration of dream-inspired fictions by DD that were prompted by Rorschach-like prints by MM (collectively known as MM/DD/2020), both subconsciously rendered in response to the anxiety-ridden events of 2020. More information about the project can be…