Paperbag No. 2

Happily, the new issue of the online magazine PAPERBAG is here! A beautiful showcase of poems, artwork, video, audio and more.

Check out my bran-spanking new full-length poetry comic Tree Opera, and make sure to pause for a long period of time over Ben Pease's excerpt from Chateau Wichman, a Blockbuster in Verse, which include Ben's amazing computer-Paint-collageish-artwork images, which are subtle and gorgeous.

Check out the Paperbag site all the way through, as there are many easter eggs of interest, including Instructions For Folding, offering readers a chance to collaborate with the amazing Anne Carson and Robert Currie. (You'll have to go check it out for more details!)

(image excerpt from Tree Opera)



SINGLE WHITE WICHMAN LOOKING FOR A GROUP OF WOMEN TO MAKE A MAN OUT OF ME, SO AS TO BE REMEMBERED FOR THE AGES. CANDLELIGHT MAKES ME NAUSEOUS, MOONLIGHT I CAN BEAR.
(From Ben Pease's Chateau Wichman)

a poem in pencil and ink and charcoal

Toad Talks At Great Length

I opened my book Poetry Comics by Dave Morice 

and out fell these napkins on which I scrawled on night at Cafe Loup over a year ago. 

Self Portrait with Poem Fragment

1-DIMENSIONAL SLICES OF A 2-DIMENSIONAL MEMBRANE

VIBRATING IN 11-DIMENSIONAL SPACE.

I hung these pants on the wall because I want to jump into them

like a gazelle. Wouldn’t it be something if strands of the universe

were good for you? I want you to unravel perpetually and enter in

at the mouth. A light, sinning at the rim of a black dome with

oscillating lines, filling our faces with a steady silver glow—