Editors' Notes

Maria Damon and Michelle Greenblatt
Jim Leftwich and Michelle Greenblatt
Sheila E. Murphy and Michelle Greenblatt

A Visual Conversation on Michelle Greenblatt's ASHES AND SEEDS with Stephen Harrison, Monika Mori | MOO, Jonathan Penton and Michelle Greenblatt

Letters for Michelle: with work by Jukka-Pekka Kervinen, Jeffrey Side, Larry Goodell, mark hartenbach, Charles J. Butler, Alexandria Bryan and Brian Kovich

Visual Poetry by Reed Altemus
Poetry by Glen Armstrong
Poetry by Lana Bella
A Eulogic Poem by John M. Bennett
Elegic Poetry by John M. Bennett
Poetry by Wendy Taylor Carlisle
A Eulogy by Vincent A. Cellucci
Poetry by Vincent A. Cellucci
Poetry by Joel Chace
A Spoken Word Poem and Visual Art by K.R. Copeland
A Eulogy by Alan Fyfe
Poetry by Win Harms
Poetry by Carolyn Hembree
Poetry by Cindy Hochman
A Eulogy by Steffen Horstmann
A Eulogic Poem by Dylan Krieger
An Elegic Poem by Dylan Krieger
Visual Art by Donna Kuhn
Poetry by Louise Landes Levi
Poetry by Jim Lineberger
Poetry by Dennis Mahagin
Poetry by Peter Marra
A Eulogy by Frankie Metro
A Song by Alexis Moon and Jonathan Penton
Poetry by Jay Passer
A Eulogy by Jonathan Penton
Visual Poetry by Anne Elezabeth Pluto and Bryson Dean-Gauthier
Visual Art by Marthe Reed
A Eulogy by Gabriel Ricard
Poetry by Alison Ross
A Short Movie by Bernd Sauermann
Poetry by Christopher Shipman
A Spoken Word Poem by Larissa Shmailo
A Eulogic Poem by Jay Sizemore
Elegic Poetry by Jay Sizemore
Poetry by Felino A. Soriano
Visual Art by Jamie Stoneman
Poetry by Ray Succre
Poetry by Yuriy Tarnawsky
A Song by Marc Vincenz


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Three Poems by Mark Cunningham

[quantum]

With the elk as our model, we decided we'd kill the mall stores by over-browsing. My show featured aging stars and the newest tabloid sensations dancing with wounded bears, and our ads told viewers that just by watching they did their part in cleaning up the environment. Saw IX: the tree's pronounced "sick-a-more" for a reason: "blades nearly circular, without leaf-base glands and edged with 20-40 pairs of fine teeth." The parakeets (extinct) of Ohio (extinct).




[quantum]

He titled himself a "sound alchemist," and she said the first thing you need to change is your title. She made campaign slogans look like the titles of pop songs: "(Forget About) Good Health Care" and "(You Can't Get No) Overtime." Our efforts to get Sept. 11 named Look What Can Happen to Investment Consultants Day never got off the ground. I thought the news identified the man as a "suicide banker," but he said that was just crazy talk.




[quantum]

I have to drink enough to pass out before I meet anybody new, and then we get along just fine. He remained unmolified by her explanation that she couldn't have meant her description of him as "the barking void at the center of creation" literally, since voids can't bark. I thought they said meat diffused; he thought they said meat defused. She said, "This is a really exciting day for unborn Hoosier children."


Mark Cunningham's two latest books are Helicotremors (Otoliths) and Scissors and Starfish (Right Hand Pointing). An e-book, 71 Leaves, is available from BlazeVOX.

The quote in the first [quantum] on this page is from George A. and Olivia Petrides, "Quaking Aspen," A Field Guide to Western Trees: Western United States and Canada, p. 286. This is part of the Peterson Field Guide series. The second quote in the third [quantum] on this page is from Sue Sawyer, Legislative Director of Indiana Right to Life, on a state bill to defund Planned Parenthood, quoted in Time, May 18, 2011, p. 9.



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