Mary Ann Caws

Susan Lewis

Matthew Moore

Will Alexander

Wayne Koestenbaum

Chris Campanioni

Tamas Panitz

Ghérasim Luca

Osvaldo Lamborghini

Léon-Paul Fargue

Ted Rees

Denise Newman

Evan Isoline

Sara Crangle

Joshua Bird

Billie Chernicoff

M. T. C. Cronin

Xeno Muir Pam Dick

Spencer Everett

Josh Fomon

Kirsten Ihns

Jack Jung

Jed Munson

Garrett Phelps

Genya Turovskaya

Utterance As a Fraught Passage: Aporia

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Toad's Sanctuary is a book-length work composed of Tamas Panitz's recent poetry, closet speeches, advertisements, manifestos, and ceremonies. These coil and uncoil as they claim the ground of an associative activity within the present. The tongue surprises me again / in the prism of the sentence, Panitz writes in the poem " Three Tarot Cards." Readers will likewise encounter many surprises spoken into life within his curious texts, which play across genres and eras with startling fluency, and are never quite what they seem.

Toad's Sanctuary

Poetry. "If, as Robert Kelly says, poetry is the art of listening out loud, then Tamas Panitz is the ideal listener: attentive to what language is telling him, attuned to its nuances, obedient to wherever it decides to take him. Just as a good conversationalist takes you by surprise and shows you a side of something you'd never seen before, a good poet, like Panitz, shows you the 'ordinary' world in an entirely new light: we are astonished by the revelations he shows us, hidden in the everyday. Panitz is the poet as alchemist, changing This into That, showing us how extraordinary things we usually take for granted--grass, trees, almonds, the alphabet--really are. Like any good poet, Panitz wakes us up, and shows us that the 'ordinary mind' is anything but that. After reading Panitz, you will never take language for granted again."--Charlotte Mandell

Upper Earth

Hasan Özkılıç

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