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In a new review for Jacket2, David Buuck revisits 2015's The Undying Present (Krupskaya), by Syd Staiti.

1 Boots Riley Under signs of the ruthless gangsterism of American politics, we made it to 2017, the centennial of the Russian Revolution. 1917, a land of lost left-wing dinosaurs, is...

I thought I was telling a joke when I woke up from surgery and said, to the sirens of the ambulance, “Beyonce,” but it came out weirder, like a poem....

“Chemotherapy is boring,” I’d warn people, and “cancer is terrifying but mostly banal,” and it was true, but by the time Juliana Spahr came to visit, I’d discovered cheap blonde...

The pathology report was terrifying. It said the primary tumor was ugly: highly aggressive triple negative breast cancer, necrotic, reproducing at a rate beyond fast. And my friends, many of...

Obscure discovery! "Canadian punk rock band Propagandhi once quoted Karen Brodine's poem 'Journal Entries' from her book Illegal Assembly [(Hanging Loose Press 1980)] in a song from their 1995 split...

Robin Tremblay-McGaw continues her turn as the best field reporter in the Bay Area, with this blog post on X Poetics about the March 1 meeting of feminist minds, co-sponsored...

  From left to right: Stephanie Young, David Buuck, Christian Nagler. Photo by Sara Wintz   At the end of summer, I went back to school and sat down with three Bay Area...