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FEATURED POET: Michelle Auerbach
Chrysopoeia Let me come with you, to make sure you select the right victims. Let me walk with you down towards the event horizon. You don’t know this yet, but that to which you yoke yourself will become your temple and a ticket to all of Asia. You think: present at the creation means causality. I say: post hoc ergo propter hoc. The eagle has landed and she’s on your cart. You should take it as a sign because I know they will. You ask, later, where did I fuck it up? And they say, a farmer can become a ...
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GRAD SCHOOL NOTEBOOK 1
S.E. Smith “I don’t care if it’s a lie, as long as it’s entertaining.” Who is she talking to? The police. Counter/anti-/ubersublime The pattern is necessary to enjoy the variation Prosthetic stuff & inverted money shots The point of time and the purpose of god—the appointed time, crucial time “Knowing Danish, I don’t know Danish” A book that makes a monument of itself is not allowed to complete the finite form. Is there any completion to the infinite EXCEPT IN THE SUBLIME? Child point of view is good for the disenfranchised. America is a nation of desperadoes. “Mom Camp” FUCK FUCK ...
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FEATURED POET: Kyle McCord
[When a man loves a woman, they journey] When a man loves a woman, they journey into the Cleveland, Ohio of their youths. What better to greet these weary pilgrims than Key Tower, the Western Reserve, exceptional K-12 education? Deeply discounted motels raise their savage maws in approval. Here, in a darkened room, the lovers perform a dance called the Hungry Tiger. Even an unsilenced cellphone, a bully loudly slicing a sandwich with scissors, could ruin this crystalline ritual. You may be the finest Inuit boot model ever to two-step it across the tundra, but even the strongest succumb. ...
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Boys Will Be Boys: A Loose Poetics in Response to the ‘boyesque’
Ben Pelhan A billboard for automobiles tells me size matters, and this is obviously a reference to the question surrounding penis size. There may not even be a question of whether or not size matters to anything else. Of course it matters. A tsunami is worse than a wave, and you shouldn’t buy a couch that you can’t fit through your front door. So I knew I needed to have a bigger penis. But then I figured, even better than having a single big penis would be to have an army of uniformly sized penises. That just seemed obvious. One ...
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The James Franco Effect
Kate Durbin “I am in a position where I can write about Hollywood, persona and film from the inside. I am not writing about it like a tell-all book but instead I transform the material in one arena into material of differing significance in another. The source is film but the result is something more universal.” –James Franco, in an interview with David Shook “I am waiting to write the poem that guts you, James Franco.” —Kristy Bowen, I Hate You James Franco Green Room I saw James Franco in person at the Jimmy Kimmel show. It was the night ...
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KEEP ON SINGIN’: HOUSTON INDIE BOOK FEST 2011
Thanks to everybody who bought a copy of OH NO No. 1, signed up for our mailing list, and came to the OH NO reading/Bebe Zeva screening; thanks to all of our contributors who read at said reading, our friends who refilled our water bottles while our tongues flapped through pitch after pitch, and our table neighbors who overheard our flapping tongues all day; and really most of all, thanks to Becca Wadlinger and Kirby Johnson for organizing the whole festival. We met a lot of excellent people and drank a number of beers (also excellent) and hung out in ...
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WITH AS MANY GRAPES IN YOUR MOUTH AS YOU CAN
We’re delighted to pass on some wonderful news: issue one contributor Lillian-Yvonne Bertram won the Red Hen Press poetry contest, and her first collection, But a Storm Is Blowing from Paradise, is forthcoming in 2012. If you’ve read her poems in OH NO (all three of which appear in the manuscript), you know her work is inventive, funny, and tough (or more like, TUFF), and like us, you can’t wait to have the book on your shelf.
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OH NO is on the move!
OH NO is now available at Domy Books in Houston, which is kind of great since we’re going to be there in early April for the Houston Indie Book Fest.
