Kate Schapira asked about a hundred people to describe an imaginary town. Sixty-three of them did. She built their contributions into poems that explore how we live differently in the same world, who we mean when we say we, what we mean when we say here. Factory School.…

Allison Cobb wanders Brooklyn’s famous nineteenth century Green-Wood Cemetery and discovers that its 500 acres–hills and ponds, trees and graves–mirror the American landscape: a place marked by greed, war, and death, but still pulsing with life. The book is a testament to what survives and…

In her second book-length collection, Sueyeun Juliette Lee suggests that suicide, K-pop, tourism, and atomic explosions have emerged as expressions of the forces upholding untenable national imaginations. Go underground with her and enter into a subterranean consideration of how History collides with human memory to…

Is all black desire corrupt? If American aspiration is linked to the desire to have whiteness, be male and make money, what, now, can a decent person want? Family, death, power, Poetry and blackness—each is implicated in a general failure of perfection and subjected to…

Wander with CAConrad & Frank Sherlock through this psychogeographical poem. Experience peoples’ histories and magical traditions rooted in the first capital of the american possible- the city of Philadelphia. Visit landmarks that remain standing, revisit citizens that live on in memory, and participate in the…