Amanda Ackerman

Fiction. Poetry. Ecopoetics. Amanda Ackerman's THE BOOK OF FERAL FLORA collapses distinctions between narrative, poetry, and prose. Grafting stories to stones and written poems to plant rewrites generated via sensory-electronic technology, THE BOOK OF FERAL FLORA attempts to write the language of plants. From a tale of two sisters in the belly of a whale to the training of a young healer and texts written by the plants themselves, entire stories repeat, differences spread, and regrowth becomes inevitable. The result is an alchemical transformation of pastoral and romantic traditions in favor of the feral: a process of freeing, imaging in, and recovering human and non-human subjects. Ackerman worked with poetry programmer Dan Richert to produce the plant-generated poems. Read more about the process here.

The Book of Feral Flora

Leopoldine Core

Brian Davis

Naben Ruthnum

Andrew Sullivan

Megan Stielstra

Katya Apekina

Peter Orner

Tobias Carroll

Kate Durbin

Daniel Mueller

Spencer Gordon

Tamar Halpern

Shawn Syms

Joyland is an online and print literary magazine that selects fiction regionally. Praised for its unique approach by Time Out, the Atlantic, and the CBC, Joyland now brings its best stories into print with Retro Vol. 1. Issue 2. From writers both emerging and acclaimed come short stories about an indie Abraham Lincoln film that's heading towards disaster, a Miley Cyrus fan defending his unending obsession, and what happens when a woman tries to break up with the Incredible Hulk after a life long affair. As Quill & Quire wrote, "The future of literary magazines is already here."

Selections from Joyland Magazine

Retro Vol. 1 No. 2

Amanda Ackerman

About

Books

Join the club