Empire
by Steve Dalachinsky
for Kamau Brathwaite
the rain has stopped for us
today
the sun comes out at
sunset
the wind brays sweetly
thru the now–pale
onion f lowers
open to a new diversity
the sounds of equivalence & rhyme
but it is still and
always will be
true
Columbus never stopped here.
Bernadette Mayer
Bernadette Mayer: finally has her own website: BernadetteMayer.com. She continues to hope for guaranteed annual income for all.
Gary Lawless
Gary Lawless: owns the Gulf of Maine bookstore in Brunswick, Maine. He spent the fall of 2017 in Venice, Italy. His new collection of poems is How the Stones Came To Venice.
No Land
No Land: is an artist, poet, and photographer. She fled school to convene with the outrider poets, jazz musicians, hackers, and magicians of the lower east side artist community. Her photojournalistic work has been published by Levy Gorvy Gallery, The Brooklyn Rail, The Village Voice, The Indypendent, Bill Moyer’s Journal, and others. In 2018, she released Authentic Artifice, an art-book of poem and photographs published by Newest York. Her cinema-poem, “Crepuscular,” a collaboration with the poet Anne Waldman, premiered at The Poetry Project in 2018.