Talisman: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics
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PROSE

Samuel Retsov: How Do We Know: A Few Notes on Talisman

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Introduction: Time in Search of Language

Burt Kimmelman:Virginia Woolf et la recherche du modernisme proustienne:
Marcel Proust in 
La Belle Époque, the Great War, and After

The Aesthetic Era and Finding a Language for Homosexuality:
Walter Pater, John Addington Symonds, Oscar Wilde, George Sylvester Viereck

Gian Lombardo: Harry Crosby, Unblotting the Sun

William Jay Barker: from Junior Birdman

Carmen Firan:New York, where are you?

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Brane Mozetič: interview

Joel Lewis: from: Frownland: A Memoir with Music

John High: Angel in the Pocket

Daniel Morris:
Calling, Being Called, and Calling Back in Tyrone Williams' c.c.
      
W. Scott Howard: “oblique act”: Susan Howe’s Liberties

Mark Jacobs: Mr. Tidy


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Celebrating Martha King

Martha King: excerpts from Max Turns Yellow

Don Yorty:​ On Reading the First Chapter of Max Turns Yellow: A Review


Cheryl J. Fish, "Unabashed," (for Martha King) and "Median"

Peter Valente: Am I Saved Yet Sister? Is It Morning?: On the work of Martha King

Kim Lyons: Inside Outside/Inside


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Reviews

Peter Valente: “Poesis of sweet disorder”: A review of Adeena Karasick’s Salomé: A Woman of Valor

W. Scott Howard:A review of Inciting Poetics: Thinking and Writing Poetry. Ed. Jeanne Heuving and Tyrone Williams.

Rachel Cualedare: Profane Conversions: A Review of supermoon by Gillian Parrish (Singing Horse Press, 2020)

Peter Valente: “Sooner than later the end will arrive”: A Review of Andrew Zawacki’s Unsun: f/11

Peter Valente: New Aesthetics of Dissident Sexualities: A Review of An Apartment on Uranus: Chronicles of the Crossing
by Paul B. Preciado

Peter Valente: My Daemon Brother: A Review of Evan Kennedy’s I am, am I, to trust the joy that joy is no more or less
there now than before

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Poetry


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A Festschrift for Donna de la Perrière

May-lee Chai: Interview with Donna de la Perrière 

Norman Fischer: Notes on the Poetry of Donna de la Perrière
 
Megan Breiseth: Under the Black and Purple Skies
 
Joseph Donahue
: The Rift Makes The Ritual: On the Poetry of Donna de la Perrière
 
Charles Alexander:
To Dream, To Wake, To Gather, To Disperse
 
Tiff Dressen and Alexandra Mattraw
: A string-and-cup phone to the night sky: a conversation on
Donna de la Perrière’s Works of Love & Terror
 
Owen Hill and Noah Ross: (Donna)&(de la Perrière)
 
Maxine Chernoff: Token (1)
 
Kevin Hatch: The Tongue is a Brush

Sheila Murphy: Implicity

Elizabeth Robinson: "First Love" and the Remodelling of Trauma

Sharon Coleman: "Who Has the Body?" Two Poetic Series by Donna de la Perrière

Joseph Lease: Real-life Poetry Top Ten, February 5, 2021: Donna de la Perrière edition

Gillian Conoly: Works of Love & Terror  (and space and time and art)​

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New Poetry

George Quasha and Susan Quasha: Genius Foci

Heller Levinson
Mary Newell
Jeffrey Kahrs
George Kalamaras
Charles Borkhuis
Maged Zaher
Jack Foley
Helen Mitsios
Norman Fischer


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