Michael Ansara 12/8/20 Michael Ansara 12/8/20

Stealing the Truth

The indictment of Julian Assange jolted me back to when I and my friends published files that didn’t belong to us…

Thomas Sayers Ellis 12/8/20 Thomas Sayers Ellis 12/8/20

An Excerpt from “Crank Shaped Notes”

At the crossroads of Roland Barthes, John Berger, and Jean Toomer, Crank Shaped Notes is about language and loss as much as it is about music and government.

Andrea Gregory 12/8/20 Andrea Gregory 12/8/20

Acceptance

Acceptance was just not a place I’ve ever wanted to go. It sounded like defeat.

Dan Hunter 12/8/20 Dan Hunter 12/8/20

Elon Musk Takes a Piggy to Market

Elon Musk put a chip in a pig’s brain to learn what a pig thinks about.

James Brandon Lewis 12/8/20 James Brandon Lewis 12/8/20

Grocery Store Chronicles

Grocery Daily News: Broccoli wins Cypher by a landslide!

Jonny Lipshin 12/8/20 Jonny Lipshin 12/8/20

An Interview with Nidia Hernández

We were the only poetry program on the radio in Venezuela.

Askold Melnyczuk 12/8/20 Askold Melnyczuk 12/8/20

Reflections on Editing

While my editorial intention is simple to articulate, it was much easier to practice in the seventies and eighties.

Rishona Michael & Lara Stecewycz 12/8/20 Rishona Michael & Lara Stecewycz 12/8/20

College 2020: The Fall

Two talented interns of Arrowsmith Press compare notes on college life in 2020.

Douglas Penick 12/8/20 Douglas Penick 12/8/20

For Music

No pitch has its own unique history or fate. There is only the simultaneous and evolving multiplicity.

Askold Melnyczuk 9/29/20 Askold Melnyczuk 9/29/20

Introduction to Volume 11

The United States is at a crossroads.

Paul Auster 9/29/20 Paul Auster 9/29/20

Parable of the Drowning Man

And so, rather than do the obvious thing, you decide to do nothing and continue on your way.

Sven Birkerts 9/29/20 Sven Birkerts 9/29/20

Serendipity: Notebook

Some days I do wake up and find an idea just waiting for me.

Thomas Sayers Ellis 9/29/20 Thomas Sayers Ellis 9/29/20

Folkcal Fraim 4

Still Photography is full of inner life lured into a larger inner life. The mirror of infinity is life.

David Ghitelman 9/29/20 David Ghitelman 9/29/20

How to Read Contemporary Fiction

I urge you to diversify your life in order to become a better reader.

Andrea Gregory 9/29/20 Andrea Gregory 9/29/20

Saving Face

I worry this is part of my decline. A crooked smile. Nothing to smile about.

Dan Hunter 9/29/20 Dan Hunter 9/29/20

Church of the Almighty Algorithm

Why do serious-minded computer scientists use the language of religious mysticism?

Julia Juster 9/29/20 Julia Juster 9/29/20

Back to School

I want school to go back to what it was, and I want it to be completely different.

James Brandon Lewis 9/29/20 James Brandon Lewis 9/29/20

Molecular Systematic Music: A Graphic Reveal

The nucleus is a visual reminder of the core of one’s artistic beliefs.

Jill McCorkle 9/29/20 Jill McCorkle 9/29/20

As a Matter of Fact

Fact: Democracy as we know it is at stake.

Mark Pawlak 9/29/20 Mark Pawlak 9/29/20

Relevant? Relevant Still? Relevant Again!

Like phoenixes rising from the ashes of old newspaper stories, political poems come round again with renewed relevance.