Brick 108

Each poet will write / their own hell. In mine, like yours, / I’ll be condemned to beauty.
—Yusuf Saadi

$19.00

  • Tessa McWatt composes a poet’s life in libretto
  • Andre Bagoo crushes on Siddhartha
  • Heather Jessup becomes a nonorientable surface
  • Pasha Malla in the tractor beam of the future
  • Aisha Sabatini Sloan skips the adventure tour
  • Tessa Fontaine untangles hair’s art history
  • Eleanor Wachtel interviews Sigrid Nunez
  • Amanda Mei Kim tries to reach Beikoku
  • Sofia Samatar on Charlie Parker, academia, and modes of exposure
  • Linda Traversi’s dream interpretations
  • Rachel Andrews brings protest art home
  • Kaie Kellough on head shops, hardcore, and Wonder Bread
  • Poetry by Sheri Benning, Yusuf Saadi, Rudy Wiebe, and John Steffler
  • Pass the popcorn: Dionne Brand, Vinh Nguyen, Rawi Hage, David Bezmozgis, Allison LaSorda, Rinaldo Walcott, Christina Sharpe, Yohani Mendis, José Teodoro, Michael Ondaatje, Canisia Lubrin, Michael Helm, Laurie D. Graham, Orly Zebak, Madeleine Thien, Jim Shepard, and Jake Kennedy go to the movies
  • Plus artwork by Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Lauren Tamaki, Alicia Nauta, Jonathan Castellino, and Jon Sasaki