One and Three Chairs

            after Joseph Kosuth

These umber bar chairs sit in a sequence before the bar with cracked leather and bare curved slats for support. When I was moving out I put my small only chair in the passenger seat of my pickup and thought: this is the kind of thing I have to know more about: chairs sitting in […]

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Review: Under the Sea by Mark Leidner

A phrase that bounced around in my head while reading this collection comes from Marcel Duchamp: “I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own tastes.”

It’s ridiculous to point this out, but the synopsis on the back of Mark Leidner’s new short-story collection, Under the Sea, gives a dependable taste of the book as a whole: “Blending absurdity and realism, meaning and banality, and love and death in equal measure, each tale weaves a portrait of our world that will […]

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To Contest A Parking Citation

A poem by Nick Maurer

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