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Psilocybin Journey Notes 10/27/22
Subhaga Crystal Bacon | POETRY | "10:00: ----------------------- Invocation ------- / Altar / Intention / 10:40: Ingest ------ / Walk..."


Hair Salon + Personal Attention ASMR in Remembrance of My Mother’s Voice
Liz Kerin | NONFICTION | "Hey there, c’mon in. / My name is Bailey, and I’ve been so looking forward to our appointment today. I’m glad you took time out of your incredibly busy, stressful day to unwind with me and let me give your beautiful hair the attention it deserves..."


A Book of Fixation: On Sally Lawton’s On Second Thought
"With the cool precision of Joan Didion and the smoky lyricism of Renata Adler, Sally Lawton’s On Second Thought (Diagram Press, 2023) is a scintillating collection of production diaries, script marginalia, and short auto-fictions that probe motherhood, filmmaking, and ways of seeing with ardent acumen. What does it mean, On Second Thought asks, to understand a narrative? To figure out the innate connection between two seemingly disparate ideas or things?"


From Thought-Forms: A Record of Clairvoyant Investigation
Sarah Mangold | POETRY | "Spirit Psychic Living | Dead..."


Poetics of Limbo
Michelle Phương Hồ | AWARD FOR HYBRID WRITING | "To be recognized in this country, I became a defendant. I was handed an orange bucket..."


"Opium and Ambergris" by Colin Dekeersgieter
"I find enjambment most compelling when it’s a means to shock, and the subversion or undercutting you mention. I mean shock as a kind of..."


"TRANZ" by Spencer Williams
"The mother figure is, at once, my literal birth mother, my adoptive mother, and a nebulous origin point..."


A Secret Third Thing: Rachelle Toarmino and Lucy Wainger
"It’s winter-spring. A blue, sunny chill. Sleep and hyacinth. Today I met with a friend with whom I have an ongoing creative..."
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