austin islam has been doing things for twenty-two years in the dallas/fort worth metroplex. his writing has been featured in many online publications including shabby doll house, have u seen my whale, and moire mag. past, current, and future projects include: slamdance xxxx [a small zine press], @spacedads [a curated poetry reading livestream], and partyin like texas… Read more »
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REWREADING REWREADING
108 poems from 108 tweets generated by the members of Charles Bernstein’s English 111 class, Spring 2014.
to this party I have brought only my mother’s flesh
poem o poem. write poem. food instead of words or vomit instead of write.
art&education
“art&education” is an edited reader of artandeducation.net’s 2012 MA and MFA program announcements.
Pupation
half autobiographic stories, half collection of poems, all a personal tale of growing and learning. the pupa is slowly cracking its shell.
Nostalgic Nightmares
A collection of poetry written by aspiring writer Kalin Palmer. This mostly melancholy collection of pieces is centered around Palmer’s high school and college life, and her personal struggles as well as first loves. The pieces included are very aesthetically pleasing, and people of many ages can relate to the range of emotions behind them.
Flights of Gravity
“Flights of Gravity”, originally intended to be a section of a senior project at Bard College, is now an autonomous selection of nine line poem “flights” closed off by two longer counterparts. They will continue to live, hover, and dive as they must.
the mouth sounds such hauntings
About this “Book” What you are about to read (or are considering reading, or have accidentally begun to read) is a collection of poems composed between 2012 and 2014. “UNTOLD,” “the mouth sounds such hauntings,” and “Windoor” were all written for reading experiences designed for Brown University’s immersive, virtual reality CAVE environment and have been… Read more »
P(UR)E IM(MAN)ENCE
P(UR)E IM(MAN)ENCE is a numbered list of 29 poems following a formal constraint: each poem is two lines, with the first line running to the end of the page and the second line shorter than the first. The poems think through language, desire, materiality, technology, and embodiment. They are part sex dream, part Deleuze puns,… Read more »
Jess Bergman
Jess Bergman is a student of English and Creative Writing at Penn. She is new to poetry (but not the internet).