ArticleA Hotel for PoetsBy Jackson DavidowFifty years after it was published, Elsa’s Housebook remains an intimate photographic document of the literary avant-garde.
Poempoetry-magazineAfter “Killers of the Flower Moon”By Elise PaschenLily Gladstone confides she wore my great grandmother Eliza’s blankets in three scenes. I don’t remember…
PoemJust Wanna Be LikeBy Douglas KearneyWas Him, once fini, on the beams,prior, He's hewer of thorntree.Could stretch tilapia and ewer,dole …
PoemAfter RiefenstahlBy Major JacksonThe screen's fabrications remain. A filmshot never fails, sailing through the centurylike a black V …
PoemFellini in PurgatoryBy Jean ValentineHe was shoveling sandat the edge of the water, his heavy black glassesglittered with rain: "Don't you…
PoemMoviesBy Langston HughesThe Roosevelt, Renaissance, Gem, Alhambra:Harlem laughing in all the wrong places at the crocodile …
PoemDear John WayneBy Louise ErdrichAugust and the drive-in picture is packed.We lounge on the hood of the Pontiacsurrounded by the slow…
PoemMeditation on InsomniaBy Josh Bell Kung-Fu, a couch, and I might reach emptiness tonight, stuck on that Midwest hoo-doo, counting cemetery…
PoemI Know a Silent Movie Star By Michael PalmerI know a silent movie star named Jane.She speaks without moving her lips.She once starred in a film …
PoemDouble FeatureBy Robert HaydenAt Dunbar, Castle or Arcadewe rode with the exotic sheikthrough deserts of erotic flowers;held in the…
PoemWhat Is RealBy Timothy DonnellyAnd though we had fed long and well at the table the talk always turned to whether to go onregardless…
PoemHattie McDaniel Arrives at the Coconut GroveBy Rita Dovelate, in aqua and ermine, gardeniasscaling her left sleeve in a spasm of scent,her gloves white, her…
ArticleArtist Statement: Palimpsests in Response to “A Division of Gods” by Ariana BrownBy Valerie Mejer Caso
CollectionPoetry and Film: Reading in the DarkBy Adam O. DavisJune 21, 2024Poetry, like the movie theater, is built out of dark and light. The ink and the page. The room and the screen.
PoemThe Bug WranglerBy Mike DoughtyHe was jailed for cruelty to insects, and his agent wasn’t answering the phone, so he stayed awake in the cell all night, pictures jumping around his head of the cops and the blowdryer they took as evidence. He used...
PoemEnter the DragonBy John MurilloFor me, the movie starts with a black manLeaping into an orbit of badges, tiny moonsCatching the sheen of his perfect black afro.Arc kicks, karate chops, and thirty copsOn their backs. It starts with the swagger,The cool lean into the...
PoemIntimacyBy Paisley RekdalHow horrible it is, how horriblethat Cronenberg film where Goldblum’s trappedwith a fly inside his MaterialTransformer: bits of the man emerginggooey, many-eyed; bits of the flyworrying that his agent’s screwed him—I almost flinch to see the body laterthat’s left its...
PoemSelf-Portrait as David LynchBy David RoderickI wear a flower in my lapel.I like the sweetness of its lie in my nose.A carnation, the fool’s flower,its heart a wilting empire.In late-night editing sessions,I imagine I’m planting flowersin the sockets of eyes. Whatever helpsme reach our rigor...