hinge by Theresa Sotto

did the 

letter arrive 

did it arrive later 

will later arrive 

before the letter 

did will 

write the letter 

or one before 

will there be four 

letters or one bee 

can bees be there in letters 

can letters be written in bees 

with letters can you be 

anything written 

can anything be written 

in a letter or not 

did you not write a letter 

or anything 

hinge is a chapbook of poems by Theresa Sotto. It is hand bound and printed in an edition of 200.

Theresa Sotto is a writer and educator who lives in Santa Monica, California. Her poems have been published in Apocalypse Anthology (Flying Guillotine Press, 2009) and journals such as Drunken Boat, Volt, Shampoo, Word For/ Word, Spinning Jenny, and ZYZZYVA. She is a recipient of the Poetry Society of America's George Bogin Memorial Award. When not writing poems, she creates educational content for museums and strategizes about how to engage people with art.

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Penumbra by Serena Chopra

Erosion

Sickle wood, a petrified claw, the clay muscles through knots. Such uncensored momentum is the autumn of an age. I billow from what has been preserved, from what does not know this immediate swivel. As the geologist examines through a magnifying glass, my kaleidoscope confesses light. Un-tucked spectrum—color is the momentum of sight. When wood is razored with earth, it folds into, not a coffin, but a monument sculpted of dust—mirrors slip light: to be, and never again, is the wind always chewing.


Penumbra is a chapbook of poems by Serena Chopra. It is hand bound and printed in an edition of 200.


Serena Chopra's first full-length book is forthcoming from Coconut Books in 2013. She has an MFA from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Her recent publications can be found in the Denver Quarterly, Fact-Simile, Pax Americana, and Umbrella Factory. She was a 2010 Kundiman Fellow. She lives, works, writes, and dances in Denver, Colorado.

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(as vanish, unespecially) by Morgan Lucas Schuldt

Plainsong (For Two)

Botch or not,

this body

(so troped for)—

how hapless

& hand-to-mouth

each day has it.

Botch or not (or

mess of fix),

how, marrow-casually,

you’ll’ve

loved it

most. Its lasting.

Its ravel-song

sung thew—O

butcher reds,

O offal proof

!  This

descript despite,

a half-riddance

slowing, now,

from purpose.

Slowing how

to dististances

(up | room |

| down | room).

The lent relenting

merely to relate

merely

under scar-lights.

Linen-long.

(as vanish, unespecially) is a chapbook of poems by Morgan Lucas Schuldt. Each copy is hand sewn with a uniquely painted cover.

Morgan Lucas Schuldt is the author of Verge (Parlor Press, 2007) and two other chapbooks L=u=N=G=U=A=G=E (Scantily Clad Press, 2009) and Otherhow (Kitchen Press, 2007). His work has appeared in Verse, LIT, Fence and many other journals. He was co-founder of CUE: A Journal of Prose Poetry and Cue Editions, a poetry press.

Morgan passed away on January 30, 2012 from complications of cystic fibrosis. He was 33 years old. For every copy of Morgan's book Flying Guillotine sells online, $1 will go to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

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abu ghraib arias by Philip Metres

The Blues of Javal Davis

stay open about drawing
an opinion ████
████████ from
the comforts of your living

room watching CNN
if you were actually on
the other side of CNN
fighting for your life pretty

much on our own we
worked seven days straight
slept seven to a cell
I was told to bang cans

throw cold ████slam doors
I blared heavy metal ████
loud all hours but the prisoners
████████air guitar

I blared Hip Hop Hurray
until they began to bob their heads
And then I played country
they said Allah Allah cut it off

country drove them crazy
CNN says we’re some dumb
poor kids from Garbagecan USA
it didn’t turn out to be that way

abu ghraib arias is a chapbook of poems by Philip Metres. It is hand bound and printed in an edition of 200. The cover paper was made from old military uniforms by Chris Arendt through The Combat Paper Project.

Philip Metres is the author numerous books, including To See the Earth (Cleveland State University, 2008), Come Together: Imagine Peace (Bottom Dog Press, 2008) and Behind the Lines: War Resistance Poetry on the American Homefront, Since 1941 (University of Iowa Press, 2007). His work has appeared in Best American Poetry, and has garnered an NEA, a Watson Fellowship, two Ohio Arts Council Grants, and the Cleveland Arts Prize in 2010. He teaches literature and creative writing at John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio. Visit him here: http://www.philipmetres.com/

Chris Arendt is a papermaker, paper artist and veteran who served part of his term in the Army at Guantanamo Bay. He also spent 15 months, the length of a modern Army deployment, collecting stories as a homeless veteran. Visit him at The Paper Trail.

The Combat Paper Project teaches returning soldiers the art of papermaking.

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