Black Sun Lit

One Poem by Stephanie Anderson

Jared Daniel Fagen — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 14:19:14 +0000

Banded chest Waist I become / I Electrode medusa Releasing words / A character Skitters off My face / Silver creases Where the words / Were An absence quilt Piecing together / Fiction Then Biting it back / The words Skritching Along a wire / You are sorry For former Selves...

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Three Prose Poems by Georg Amsel, trans. from German by Lake Angela

Jared Daniel Fagen — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 13:55:57 +0000

The musicians play for the trees. Children dance on their stools while the wind sits still. Out the window it is a white year already. From whom shall we steal a new life? Fields glow a bright and dusty yellow from fallen sunshine, from pollinated rapeseed. Our legs were loaned by the wind...

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Little Green Brush by Meg Shevenock

Jared Daniel Fagen — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 13:40:20 +0000

What remains of me in bristles, is hair blonde and close as a lion’s fur. What remains of worms are carapaces. Putting disgust aside, I confess the worms are maggots, whose carapaces, indeed, once held hearts. The heart of a maggot is an arch or series of arches evolved to pump blood through the body...

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Introducing Lunar Ring Finger by Annie Le Brun, forthcoming September 15, 2026

Jared Daniel Fagen — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 13:26:52 +0000

Preorders for Annie Le Brun’s Lunar Ring Finger are now available. Lunar Ring Finger is a festival of seismic language that summons the unbound horizon of imagination against the calamitous azure of a hyper-mediated world. In her final standalone book of poetry, and here her first to be translated into English, Annie Le Brun erodes the petrification of haunting catastrophe with lovestruck insurgency...

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One Poem by Timothy Ashley Leo

Jared Daniel Fagen — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 13:45:48 +0000

speaking of ‘the body’ / [ must we ] take care / with catharsis, with tongue / * / this is more of a comment, / then a question, / a refined sense of time / * / half a window-wall of books / stacked / to the height of a child / * / for a soma / to be a psyche [ must it ] / know a host [ must it ] / wear a veil...

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Three Poems by Thea Brown

Jared Daniel Fagen — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 13:22:22 +0000

cluster of wedelia oxeye expression so abundant almost secret common clockwork. Yes bodies no body the one everyone is bored by nearby. The banks overrun and the reporter only says submerged roots and stay away. My listening face swells and hardens but not like you think. The hubcaps spin backward....

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Action Books, Black Ocean, Black Sun Lit, Changes & Wendy’s Subway AWP Offsite Reading at Le Mondo

Jared Daniel Fagen — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 14:15:22 +0000

Friday, March 6, 2026, 5:30 PM: Please join Action Books, Black Ocean, Black Sun Lit, Changes & Wendy's Subway for an AWP offsite reading, featuring Jimin Seo, Chariot Wish, Leslie McIntosh, Laura Newbern, Joe Hall, Nathan Hoks, Johannes Göransson, Elisa Gabbert, Jane Lewty, Kimberly Alidio, Jonathan Larson, Jared Daniel Fagen, ML Martin, Ted Dodson, Leia Penina Wilson, Toby Altman, kathy wu & Sahar Khraibani...

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One Poem by Laura Jaramillo

Jared Daniel Fagen — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 14:27:30 +0000

I want to say / I feel it too / a formless / lacerating / loneliness / collectively / inflicted / individually / wounded / not clean / or cauterized / many days like / this a thumb pressed / down at the top / of the skull / someone advances / a theory but language / is banished...

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One Poem by Bradley King

Jared Daniel Fagen — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 14:27:22 +0000

We secret / – ly prepare // Rehearsal / one is / a quest / ion the / other is / a state / ment / which / would / you like / to he – / ar first / I ha – / ve two / things / to say / to you // Everyone seemed / there / everyone smiling / got back with who / how sad // What we say is / metaphor / the sea doesn't / have that door // Quiet, violent...

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My cloud by Vincent Broqua, trans. from French by Léon Pradeau

Jared Daniel Fagen — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 14:00:58 +0000

let the snow fall / from screens * / white / fingered / noise / the constellation / of him = / you-flakes / projected / what courses / from you = / translating / the spectacle / of your signals * / shape / to come = / furtive diva / Empty scene, nothing / projector blues, / we’re waiting for the actor...

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