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A poem is a lot like a joke. In the last installment of our “Found Poetry” series, Woody Woodger peels back the common anatomy of poetry and comedy. Read the rest of her piece here: counterclock.org/standup-comedy
Next in our “Found Poetry” series: Simone Gulliver discusses the radical power of list poems in racial justice movements. You can find her essay at: counterclock.org/racial-justice
In “Redshifting & Blueshifting in the Worlds of Poetry”, Sarah Feng applies the Doppler Effect to poetic landscapes. You can read her piece at: counterclock.org/doppler-effect
Viet Thanh Nguyen’s “The Committed” follows a two-minded narrator into the criminal underworld of Paris, where he must confront the colonial legacy of his fatherland. Read Jonathan Truong’s review at: counterclock.org/blog/tr
For the next installment in our “Found Poetry” series, check out Ashira Shirali’s reflection on the tenuous line between song lyrics and poetry, specifically in the work of rap artist Kendrick Lamar. You can read her piece at: coun
In “Kite and the Moon,” Heena Khan’s nonhuman characters explore the limits of free will and predetermination. Read the rest of her story here: counterclock.org/heena-khan Art: “She says it with her eyes (II)” by Lilia
As police violence against Black men continues, Robert Beveridge questions America’s silence and inaction in his poem “and i shall dwell in the house of the lord forever.” Read the rest of his piece in Issue 11: counterclock.org/ro
Yejin Suh’s “The Corner Shelf” imagines an expedition to an untouched, violent planet, with characters as alive as their environment. Check out the rest of her story here: counterclock.org/yejin-suh Art: “She says it with h
Madeleine Cepeda-Hanley reimagines the legend of Guayas and Quil in her persona poem “guaya / quil.” Find the rest of her piece in Issue 11: counterclock.org/madeleine-cepedahanley
Trivarna Hariharan’s “A dream in which the body reclaims its fragmentation” extends a dialogue between speaker and priest into a meditation on embodiment. Read the rest of her poem in Issue 11: counterclock.org/trivarna-hariharan
In “Kenneth Street Redux,” Corey Mesler examines nostalgia, childhood homes, and the sparkling and messy business that is growing up. Check out the rest of his poem in Issue 11: counterclock.org/corey-mesler
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Issue 11 • January 2021 Includes: carnivorous oceans + ginger cats + the Eastern seabird Jingwei + self-axing + more. Featuring the film-poems of PATCHWORK: Film x Poetry. Cover: “She sees it with her eyes (IV),” by Lilianne Milg
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“At the heart of this adventure novel lies an ode to a genre often excluded from the world of literary greats: the female friendship story,” writes Simone Gulliver in her review of Rachel Joyce’s “Miss Benson’s Beetle.&r
“It feels as if the language of cis fear, a “transphobe”, a “phobia”-haver, is designed to be rehabilitative, medicalized, excusatory of bigotry,” writes Woody Woodger on the blog, dissecting and unraveling the ter
Need a break from the monotony these days? Us too. While you’re waiting for the @counterclocklit Emerging Writers Awards, check out the CC Blog for Noreen Ocampo’s refreshing review of the latest Taco Bell Quarterly — nacho average
Meet our prose judge for the 2020 CCWA! — Originally from Mississippi, Nick White is the author of the novel How to Survive a Summer (Blue Rider/Penguin, 2017) and the story collection Sweet and Low. He is an Assistant Professor of English at
Young writers: send us your poetry & prose by 2/15.