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The title text for The Light of Mount Horrid, done in brush strokes and text that appears to be creeping out of the woods

Rolling The Light of Mount Horrid to Life

By Levi Rubeck • April 11th, 2023

From page one the lore of Mount Horrid is spelled out clearly and deliciously, unflinching in welding together escapades and caesura.

Casting Deep Meteo

Ghost of Tsushima and the Cutting Word

By Levi Rubeck • December 16th, 2022

Reading poetry becomes work; writing poetry is meant to be freedom unbound.

Backlog
The graveyard near Gavin Craig's new home.

Backlog: Unpacking

By Gavin Craig • July 1st, 2018

Relocating to a new home can be difficult. Everything you know and love packed away into neat little boxes. Be isn’t it natural; after all, as Gavin Craig puts it, it’s where we all end up anyway.

Epistolary Voicemail

By Levi Rubeck • May 31st, 2018

Enjoying a recent New Yorker online poetry experiment where Natalie Diaz and Ada Limón are explicitly communicating with each other, and we are shepherded on the atmosphere that extends between them.

Poetry at the Crossroads of Self and State

By Levi Rubeck • May 23rd, 2018

Sharif, an American poet whose parents were exiled from Iran, is taking stock of her homes and houses in this and all of her work

Ode to Soylent

By Teddy Dief • December 7th, 2016

Soylent Soylent Soylent Soylent Soylent Soylent Soylent Soylent Soylent Soylent Soylent Soylent . . .

Shaping Worlds

By Kaitlin Tremblay • August 20th, 2015

“My favorite thing about a new videogame map is how much of a blank slate it is”. Kaitlin Tremblay’s interpretation of a game’s world map is likely very different from your own.

Verse and Controller

By J. Stephen Addcox • February 2nd, 2015

J. Stephen Addcox examines the importance of poetry in videogames like Gone Home, Ni No Kuni, Skyrim and Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons.

Unwinnable Weekly Issue Thirty

By Stu Horvath • January 30th, 2015

A cautionary tale for players of Dungeons & Dragons and story excerpts from Unwinnable Weekly Issue Thirty.

Point Hueneme

By Amber von Nagel • May 16th, 2013

Amber von Nagel presents a poem from her new collection, Alexandria.

16 Out of 20

By Daniel Winters • February 12th, 2013

I tear off the Post-it note, place it and walk away. I never look back.

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