Killdeer

 

 

 

 

Carolyn Guinzio‘s most recent collection is A Vertigo Book (The Word Works, 2021), winner of The Tenth Gate Prize and finalist for the Foreword Indies Award. Her website is carolynguinzio.tumblr.com.

 

Roots

 

 

 

 

 

Carolyn Guinzio‘s most recent collection is A Vertigo Book (The Word Works, 2021), winner of The Tenth Gate Prize and finalist for the Foreword Indies Award. Her website is carolynguinzio.tumblr.com.

Harrow the Islands

 

 

 

 

Kimberly Alidio is an educator, historian, and author of four books of poetry, including why letter ellipses,  : once teeth bones coral : , a Lambda Literary Award Finalist, and after projects the resound. Her most recent book, Teeter, won the Nightboat Poetry Prize, and will be published in Fall 2023.

 

Note: These collages take their titles and imagery from The Leniad (Broken Sleep Books) by Nathaniel Rosenthalis and were produced in collaboration with the author.

 

 

 

 

James Scales is a writer, musician, and visual artist working out of New York City’s oldest house. His art has appeared in The Brooklyn Review and The Spectacle, and his writing is forthcoming from or has appeared in Kenyon Review, The Hopkins Review, and Full Stop. www.jameswadescales.com.

Nathaniel Rosenthalis is an actor, singer, and poet. He is the author of the forthcoming full-length collections I Won’t Begin Again, winner of the 2021 Burnside Press Review Award selected by Sommer Browning, and The Leniad (Broken Sleep Books). He lives and works in New York City. www.nathanielrosenthalis.com.

What I’m trying to say is that it wasn’t lonely

 

 

 

Note: These collages take their titles and imagery from The Leniad (Broken Sleep Books) by Nathaniel Rosenthalis and were produced in collaboration with the author.

 

 

 

 

James Scales is a writer, musician, and visual artist working out of New York City’s oldest house. His art has appeared in The Brooklyn Review and The Spectacle, and his writing is forthcoming from or has appeared in Kenyon Review, The Hopkins Review, and Full Stop. www.jameswadescales.com.

Nathaniel Rosenthalis is an actor, singer, and poet. He is the author of the forthcoming full-length collections I Won’t Begin Again, winner of the 2021 Burnside Press Review Award selected by Sommer Browning, and The Leniad (Broken Sleep Books). He lives and works in New York City. www.nathanielrosenthalis.com.

 

 

 

 

No Future

 

 

 

 

Daniel Uncapher is a PhD student at the University of Utah with an MFA from Notre Dame. A disabled bisexual from North Missisisppi, their work has appeared in Tin House, The Sun, Chicago Quarterly Review, and others. @ds_chapman.

Stain

 

 

 

 

Raina K. Puels is a queer/poly Boston-based writer, educator, and kinkster. They hold an MFA from Emerson College and read poems for Split Lip Mag. You can find their writing in The Rumpus, Hobart After Dark, PANK, and many other places listed here: rainakpuels.com. Follow them on Twitter: @rainakpuels.

Bela Lugosi’s Dead: An Excerpt from SCARLET

 

 

 

 

Artist’s Statement

SCARLET began as a digital visual/poetic meditation on the psychological and physical toll of social isolation during the COVID-19 lockdown. The project has since evolved to document the social, political, and personal disruption of the pandemic as we move through its various mutations and surges.

 The digital/visual poems are created through erasure of the novel The Scarlet Plague, by Jack London, collaged with glitched imagery from everyday life during the pandemic. The titles of poems in the series are then derived from objects contained in each glitched still life.

 Glitching is a technique that introduces errors into the code of a digital file or stream that distorts its presentation. The error-induced fracturing of images in SCARLET is intended to defamiliarize everyday objects and surroundings to reflect the psyche under the constant stress of the pandemic.

 The Scarlet Plague is a post-apocalyptic novel, published in 1912, set in California during the year 2073, after the world’s population is decimated by an uncontrollable pandemic.

 

 

 

Francesco Levato is a poet, translator, and new media artist. Recent books include Arsenal/Sin Documentos; Endless, Beautiful, Exact; and Elegy for Dead Languages. He holds an MFA in Poetry, a PhD in English Studies, and is an Associate Professor of Literature & Writing Studies at California State University San Marcos.

 

Godzilla vs. Ghidorah, S.H. Monster Arts—An Excerpt from SCARLET

 

 

 

 

Artist’s Statement

SCARLET began as a digital visual/poetic meditation on the psychological and physical toll of social isolation during the COVID-19 lockdown. The project has since evolved to document the social, political, and personal disruption of the pandemic as we move through its various mutations and surges.

 The digital/visual poems are created through erasure of the novel The Scarlet Plague, by Jack London, collaged with glitched imagery from everyday life during the pandemic. The titles of poems in the series are then derived from objects contained in each glitched still life.

 Glitching is a technique that introduces errors into the code of a digital file or stream that distorts its presentation. The error-induced fracturing of images in SCARLET is intended to defamiliarize everyday objects and surroundings to reflect the psyche under the constant stress of the pandemic.

The Scarlet Plague is a post-apocalyptic novel, published in 1912, set in California during the year 2073, after the world’s population is decimated by an uncontrollable pandemic.

 

 

 

Francesco Levato is a poet, translator, and new media artist. Recent books include Arsenal/Sin Documentos; Endless, Beautiful, Exact; and Elegy for Dead Languages. He holds an MFA in Poetry, a PhD in English Studies, and is an Associate Professor of Literature & Writing Studies at California State University San Marcos.