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  • Article
    By Jackson Davidow

    Fifty years after it was published, Elsa’s Housebook remains an intimate photographic document of the literary avant-garde.

    A black-and-white self-portrait of Elsa Dorfman sitting on a couch.
  • Poem
    By Douglas Kearney
    Was Him, once fini, on the beams,
    prior, He's hewer of thorntree.
    Could stretch tilapia and ewer,
    dole …
  • Poem
    By Major Jackson
    The screen's fabrications remain. A film
    shot never fails, sailing through the century
    like a black V …
  • Poem
    By Jean Valentine
    He was shoveling sand
    at the edge of the water, his heavy black glasses
    glittered with rain: 
    "Don't you…
  • Poem
    By Langston Hughes
    The Roosevelt, Renaissance, Gem, Alhambra:
    Harlem laughing in all the wrong places
      at the crocodile …
  • Poem
    By Louise Erdrich
    August and the drive-in picture is packed.
    We lounge on the hood of the Pontiac
    surrounded by the slow…
  • Poem
    By Josh Bell
    Kung-Fu, a couch, and I might reach
    emptiness tonight, stuck on that Midwest
    hoo-doo, counting cemetery…
  • Poem
    By Michael Palmer
    I know a silent movie star named Jane.
    She speaks without moving her lips.
    She once starred in a film …
  • Poem
    By Robert Hayden
    At Dunbar, Castle or Arcade
    we rode with the exotic sheik
    through deserts of erotic flowers;
    held in the…
  • Poem
    By Timothy Donnelly
    And though we had fed long and well at the table
      the talk always turned to whether to go on
    regardless…
  • Collection
    By Adam O. Davis
    Poetry, like the movie theater, is built out of dark and light. The ink and the page. The room and the screen.
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  • Poem
    By Mike Doughty
    He was jailed for cruelty to insects, and his agent wasn’t answering the phone, so he stayed awake in the cell all night, pictures jumping around his head of the cops and the blowdryer they took as evidence. He used...
  • Poem
    By John Murillo
    For me, the movie starts with a black man
    Leaping into an orbit of badges, tiny moons

    Catching the sheen of his perfect black afro.
    Arc kicks, karate chops, and thirty cops

    On their backs. It starts with the swagger,
    The cool lean into the...
  • Poem
    By Paisley Rekdal
    How horrible it is, how horrible
    that Cronenberg film where Goldblum’s trapped

    with a fly inside his Material
    Transformer: bits of the man emerging

    gooey, many-eyed; bits of the fly
    worrying that his agent’s screwed him—

    I almost flinch to see the body later
    that’s left its...
  • Poem
    By David Roderick
    I wear a flower in my lapel.
    I like the sweetness of its lie in my nose.
    A carnation, the fool’s flower,

    its heart a wilting empire.
    In late-night editing sessions,
    I imagine I’m planting flowers

    in the sockets of eyes. Whatever helps
    me reach our rigor...
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