The Other

is a micro-press of sorts; founded and run by native Brooklynites, it produces small notebooks, crafted by hand from paper, old cassette tapes from your favorite ’80s and ’90s bands, and the album art and liner notes they came packaged in. As part of the mission of TheThe’s Infoxicated Corner is to promote indie art [...]

True Ugliness: Cate Marvin’s Oracle by KT Billey People are fucked up and funny, and so is the world. This is a fact that Oracle (Norton, 2015), Cate Marvin’s third and most recent collection of poems, bestows upon us, and it’s clear from the get-go that anyone looking for soothsaying better look elsewhere. Or consider [...]

I asked the poet to talk with me a little bit about the genesis and refinement of her new book, , which is excerpted today at Poetry Blog. (And please see the end of the Q&A for a brief note from her publisher about his grassroots micropress, Grand Concourse!) Fox Frazier-Foley: I really loved this [...]

Deep in a forest in the Northernmost part of Vietnam, in a Vietcong reeducation camp, my father watched to see if the chili peppers would spin in the clear water. If the peppers were still, then the water was not poisonous. Father said the best way to get water was to cut a bamboo tree [...]

I asked Bay Area slam poet B Deep to share some of his amazing spoken-word pieces with us in the Infoxicated Corner. Thrilled to be including some work by STAGE poets as well as all the PAGE poets we’ve been blessed to host. Enjoy these three performances, below! Brennan/ ‘B Deep’ DeFrisco likes words and [...]

All The Rage: The Fashion in Our Fury is Little More than a Refusal to Engage by Saba Razvi Slate.com features a gallery on its website called “The Year of Outrage,” in which it showcases a breakdown of the trending topic of outrage for each day of the year 2014. Yes, that’s right – each [...]

Some Things Never Change: Outrage and Persuasion in Online Literary Debate by Michael Simon Recent events have provided plenty of opportunities to diagnose the culture of debate in our online literary communities, as well on the Internet more generally, from the controversial essay by Elizabeth Ellen at Hobart to the conversations prompted by Jesse Bradley’s [...]