Poetry 
How to Speak like a Painting
(Virtually monolingual, I’m about to discuss words as they work in English. My knowledge of languages that live off different fundaments entirely is sparse.) Like its talkati... ...read more
What Is Amazing
A poet might have a deep and truthful scientific knowledge of how nature operates: how redwoods bloom and the like. But even a nature poem is not a biology textbook, and it deta... ...read morePractically Porcelain: TFT review of “Dear Editor” by Amy Newman
The concept behind Dear Editor, by Amy Newman, should be painfully familiar to anyone who has taken part in the precarious dance that is the process of seeking publication. Ever... ...read more
Ekphrasis in Preparation for the Communal Swim: A Review of Tom Savage’s “Brainlifts”
One could call Tom Savage’s poetry a procession of ideas. In the face of their often kooky, evocative imagery, there is a didactic, conceptual flare that subverts their os... ...read more
“Glowing accidental things”: Walking with Jon Cotner and Claire Hamilton
The photographs aren’t particularly artistic and the captions aren’t particularly poetic. But the recent collaborations of Jon Cotner and Claire Hamilton – slideshows that docum... ...read more
Sharp Instruments and Lynched Messiahs: TFT Review of Tres
Creo que vengo de la poesía. – Roberto Bolaño Perhaps surprising to some of his fiction fans, Roberto Bolaño touted poetry as the superior art form, above fiction, nonfiction, a... ...read more
The Kids Are All Right
Paige Taggart’s Polaroid Parade (Greying Ghost, 2011), Ben Fama’s New Waves (Minutes Books, 2011), and Genya Turovskaya’s Dear Jenny (S U P E R M A C H I N E, 2011). In an era w... ...read more
Myth Machine: TFT Review of ‘Wichman Cometh’ by Ben Pease
Deep within John Ford’s fictional one-horse town of Shinbone, a newspaperman delivers a most memorable line: “When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.“ The newspaperman i... ...read more
“Love is rad”: TFT Review of Beauty Was The Case That They Gave Me by Mark Leidner
Mark Leidner’s Beauty Was the Case That They Gave Me (Factory Hollow Press, 2011) revels in the possibilities of parameters: each poem seems quick to establish its field, its pr... ...read more
“How Do I Know I Still Exist?”: TFT Review of Fog Gorgeous Stag by Sean Lovelace
Fog Gorgeous Stag, the latest tumultuous effort from Sean Lovelace (June, Publishing Genius), is first and foremost a book obsessed with its own existence as a linguistic deity ... ...read more
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