PORTRAIT TAKING
The studio photographer's
negatives cut in two
developed as spliced-in-
at random portraits
half-men
half- monsters
all those headless
bodies that have no
idea they must
one day wake
This blog is the successor to the poetry section of the now no longer existing The Argotist Online. Send submissions to argotistonline@gmail.com. Due to the large number of submissions, only those accepted can be replied to.
Poems by Alan Catlin
THE BLIND TOPOLOGIST'S ALGEBRAIC PROBLEM is laid out on foolscap, representative numbers, theorems raised as lumps on parchment for well...
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THE STUDIO The vista which then opened was one I never could’ve anticipated in the Nineties—the PAFA campus was set as a series of jeweled b...
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Novel Lines 101: 101 alphabetical poems, each riffing on the opening line of a postmodern novel or metafiction. Antonio Lobo Antunes, Act o...
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AN ELYSIAN GLOW Following her through shady pines on a summer’s day, as if in the hope of a sudden trackless miracle, the young man trips an...