RESOURCES

RESOURCES is a space for (strictly…) contemporary discourse upon the issues Blue Bag platforms across our output-sphere (is that atmosphere?).

Here, we seek out very recent endeavors [e.g. attempts, failures] and otherwise(s) which document the hybrid juncture that is ποίησις [“poiesis”]: not, strictly, just a ‘making’ but a production emanative from a hearing of the world which conducts itself as we oft say “aesthetically” while mainlining the social condition by inevitable force of the violent systems we live under. Such is attunement (to), no?

This actively developed space features the work of a variety of artists and thinkers solicited directly by the Press and edited thus in collaboration with the authors. Material is divided into INTERVENTIONS (new engagements that stake into what is needed to move forward or must be understood) and RESPONSES (re-mediations of other materials).

This journal is not meant to be such a “breviary” (here current neologism; alt-def: short space), but an expansive conversation.

INTERVENTIONS

UPDATION-SPECK VII
—E-dictional constructures & stanzaic shadows by Brandan Griffin

SPIDER PAINTED OVER BY MY LANDLORD […]
—Trace-to-history of the “landlord treatment” by Barrett White

TWO POEMS
—Sol Cabrini meditates on war, technology, and action: our “being-toward-crash.”

SPAM POETRY
—A new chapbook from Diego Espíritu

FROM SPECULATIVE FICTION
—Relational calendar forensics by Yuyi Chen

MY HANDS TO MYSELF
—A re-setting of Tina Darragh’s 1975 debut chapbook

FROM TRAVIS
—‘A montage of fact and fiction from inside the American nightmare’ by RM Haines

FROM THE ORANGE BOOK
—Entries from Corey Qureshi’s work in progress

FUCK IT WE BALL
—A militant poetics manifesto by jade vine

FROM VASECTOMAJESTIC
—Jacob Schepers concludes his long poem of surgery, parenting, recovery, and place in society

SEVEN POEMS
—Crises-poetics as praxis by Rachel Lauren Myers

RESISTING THE TECHNOLOGICAL MONOPOLY OF THE PAGE
—Clown poetics lecture from Henry Goldkamp
—Video performance here

FIVE POEMS
—Excerpts and dictums from two projects by Jenkin Benson

PLOT HOLES MATTER
—An autoethnography by Lynn Doyle

THE WAR IN GAZA IS LOCAL
—Matthew Connolly maps our local complicities

RESPONSES

John Candy’s Funeral
—A public mourning by Dylan Angell

Rosa Luxemburg
—A view of the film by P Inman and Tina Darragh

THIS UNLYRICAL WE
—Notes against cooperative poetics by Alex Tretbar