“What resembles an inner world? What white bird that looks out for itself? Maybe someone will tell the biography of a journey. Time is told in syllables.” —@marianegroni2, trans. by Michelle Gil-Montero bit.ly/3qHRuM0

“A former sun, a warmer form of falling on, fallen now, warmly in grass, while the sun in your hand is a lonelier one, so you hold it more closely, and a light deep inside the body wanders back.” —Cole Swensen in digital vestiges : bit.ly/3p43GWX

NERVE METER: a poetry & sound performance presented by Black Sun Lit CEREMONIAL ABYSS +++ Brenda Iijima Katy Mongeau Rachelle Rahmé Jared Daniel Fagen Chloe Bliss Snyder BLACK SPRING BOOKS 6:30 PM +++ bit.ly/3XXw3TR

Ceremonial Abyss : Jennifer Soong : Losarc Raal : Piano Rain : Eric Baus : Whit Griffin poetry : sound : intermedia collaboration Saturday : August 12th : Counterpath : Denver CO : 7 PM : bit.ly/3Y6T1YF

Introducing DEAD END, the English-language debut of Michel Surya’s fiction (trans. from the French by "kit" "schluter"). Forthcoming October 17, 2023. Preorders now available : bit.ly/3Od1WmL

BLACK SUN LIT BLACK SQUARE EDITIONS ELLIPSIS PRESS CALAMARI ARCHIVE BROOKLYN BOOK FESTIVAL TABLES 205 & 206 1 OCTOBER 2023 10 AM-6 PM

“Fear echoed the road like a dull, dim fog. Thirty-two kilometers ahead, the lamplight was shattering. I, too, had reached the limit; as if it overheard the mumble, the limit actually came close.” —Seo Jung Hak, trans. by Megan Sungyoon bit.ly/3FbFXbR

Join BSL for the launch + a live reading of Michel Surya’s DEAD END with translator "kit" "schluter", Katy Mongeau, Mitch Anzuoni, Katie Ebbitt, V Manuscript & Maralie. Books and refreshments will be available for sale: bit.ly/3snBEaJ

From the archives: “I’m not ready to speak, the Poet writes in his notebook, showing no one.” —"kit" "schluter" bit.ly/40u6ET9

“Write a music. Write a music more of with more no world, with things arranged. Things rearranged in no.” —prefab clout in digital vestiges : bit.ly/49kQ1MM

Blanca Varela’s MATERIAL EXERCISES (trans. by Carlos Lara) reviewed in Letras Latinas: “Varela collapses the distance between extremes, entangling elements from opposing poles in surreal imagery and stunning turns of phrase.” bit.ly/47AlPwO

“If it is a stone of sorrow, there I am seated / There, where ribbons fall sideways on the plain / White veils.” —Valentine Penrose, trans. by Mia X. Pérez bit.ly/4c0qjPF

A commentary on Jennifer Soong’s SUEDE MANTIS / SOFT RAGE in Chicago Review : “Revisiting traditional lyric ground, Soong raises at times unexpected renovations, fashioning taut—sometimes claustrophobic—poems of the secret self.” bit.ly/47QbZGk

Introducing SO-LAIR STORM by Andrés Ajens (trans. from the Spanish by Erín Moure (Хамуляк)), forthcoming July 9, 2024. Preorders from Asterism Books now available : bit.ly/4bbWoD5

From the archives: “you, a maze always out of view, i stand behind my eyes and wait for you like i am standing by for an afternoon to be drowned in a deluge” —Yoo Heekyung, trans. by stine an ✨ 스틴 bit.ly/3zk87So

From the archives: “Arise awry. Bless bliss. / This: thus sun sung / on dawn. Bird burred / in song insensate as / asters stir tulips. Two lips / address: undress, win kisses / in chaos endured.” —Elizabeth Robinson bit.ly/3yvkZFd

“that which doesn’t exist only has existence thanks to us / so the fiction strikes out reality or else takes revenge / for not being good enough for life while occupying it” —Bernard Noël, trans. by Eléna Rivera bit.ly/3ZaeTou

All BSL titles + Vestiges are now available from Asterism Books. Purchase here: bit.ly/3Izazpw

SO-LAIR STORM ~ virtual book launch Andrés Ajens ~ Erín Moure Michelle Gil-Montero ~ Sonja Greckol Tuesday ~ October 1 ~ 7 PM ET RSVP bit.ly/4eiPAFg

VESTIGES returns. The detonation of denotation. Catachrestic cathexis. Dispossessing desires. Eroticisms, erroneously. Subs open till 12/7. Issue launching Spring 2025. Guidelines here: bit.ly/4fbltA8