RESOURCES

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

Publishing works on a weekly basis in “seasons” (or “batches”), RESOURCES is an "ongoing journal”  featuring the work of a variety of artists usually solicited directly by the Press and edited collaboratively. We are keen on sharing sequences of work, projects-in-progress/drafts, and other so-called “fugitive” materials. This journal is not meant to be such a “breviary” (here current neologism; alt-def: short space), but an expansive conversation, transparently edited, and amenable to (in)frequent reconfigurations. Materials are divided into INTERVENTIONS (new productions that stake into what is needed to move forward or must be understood), RESPONSES (re-mediations of other materials which function[ed] along these lines) and AUDIO.

INTERVENTIONS

FROM HOPPY
—Clark Coolidge’s epic and precise interrogation of America’s deeply flawed myths of a “Wild West” challenges narrative pasts & commercial presents

RIPARIAN URGE
—Miriam Saperstein interrogates the convenience of ritual purification.

FROM IN OUT OF ALL
—‘Song ripped fragments’ ‘Splaying awareness’ (praxis) by Geoffrey Olsen

FROM SUPERLIQUID WATER
—Poems mediating our thought “of”: image, water,
& a good deal more; by Cécile Mainardi
—Translated by cj nizard & Léon Pradeau

EPISTOLARY
—Amie Zimmerman writes to Diane DiPrima & into her Revolutionary Letters

SEVEN POEMS
—Phraseology as glittering chemical poetics by Michael Farrell

FROM TERRACOTTA FRAGMENTS
—Excerpts from the forthcoming book by Eric Tyler Benick

EGRET 05.04.2025
—A video from Elise Thi Tran
—A Statement by the Artist

FROM SNOOPY LOVE
—Autumnoficially generated comix mediations by Matthew Klane

BUTT PLUGS
—Ethan Fortuna signals a source of revivification that refutes life-as-biological

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

A JUNCO’S TANGLED UP IN THE CONCERTINA
—A crown of sonnets by Alex Tretbar

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

THREE POEMS
—Max Gregg shares poems from ongoing work & after a 1975 medical study

THIS UNLYRICAL WE
—Notes against cooperative poetics by Alex Tretbar

JOHN CANDY’S FUNERAL
—A public mourning by Dylan Angell

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

AUDIO

BALL (for Marion Bell)
—ebs sanders nets us an echophonic historomantic romp

ci-après: un bleu ii (hereafter: a blue ii)
—A soundscape & intervention by Nam Hoang Tran
—Artist’s statement

VERBATIM FIELD RECORDING 01
—Alyx Tanner & Death Rattled
—10/4/2025 at Verbatim Expo