New Poetry with Audio!

Donald Revell
Stephen Burt
Paul Hoover
Jonah Winter
Cathy Wagner
Reginald Shepherd
Nin Andrews
Sophia Kartsonis
Sandra Miller
Joshua Harmon
Devin Johnston
Chuck Zerby
Sara Henning
Ognjen Smiljanic
Lance Phillips
Peter Drake
Kathleen Byrne
Ernest Hilbert
Garth Greenwell
Marc McKee

Criticism

Brian Henry on Kinsella
Gabriel Welsch on Northrop
Gabriel Welsch on Smith
Cecily Iddings on Ruefle
Christopher McDermott on Wenderoth

Lance Phillips has recently had work appear in Fence, The Gig, Aufgabe and elsewhere.  His first book, Corpus Socius, was released in May 2002 from Ahsahta Press. He lives in Charlotte, N.C., with his wife and son.

Cosa mentale

                        —between fingertip & coccyx  the intestine

                        —she  to have rabbits base the pear tree

                        TINKERING besides

                        —“couple””  “family” “person”  “objects”

                        —all the rest   YES OR NO and YES AND NO

                        —Voluptas  the sun’s rays  the sun doesn’t have any rays

                        —her hands held in one above head

                        body

                        —why revert to Myth  where vein purples the surface

                        just above  left from orifice

                        —fingers and tongue  dragging right  the three latter ones   Tragedy

                        the manifesting of “Despotic body”

                        Urethra   The sweep of elm   See

                        microbes  the sun over orifice

                        —DOUBLE BIND

                        Mons pubis and some pores   The mown-hill   Morphogenesis

                        INCISOR-EAR-INCISOR

                        Sac sewn onto thigh/Shadow and yellow then green in the light

                        BOTH

                           Organism/Significance/Subjectification vs. A distance between

                        mouth and nostril

                        Hear the bird   This emphasis not on space but on disorganization

                        He/His did/Face his

1.       face/sac

2.       throb up from & West

3.       zephyr

                           certain hole a/The axes of eyes  of mouth & anus

                        jut

                        Daylight

                        Conjugal around the mouth   Skin   Follow

                        —each orifice in a series of coronas  worship and ceremonies,

                        followed

                        by exchange of goods, followed by family life, followed my trash and

                        excrement

                        —think it’s mourning dove