Like many writers, I feel centered when I write, or it might be better to say, when I don’t write, when I can’t write for whatever reason, I feel, frankly, de-stabilized. It’s dangerous for me not to write.
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Sigrid Nunez
Four Poems by Imani Elizabeth Jackson
- Alex Balgiu and Mónica de la Torre’s Women in Concrete Poetry: 1959–1979 by Ted Dodson
- Matt Keegan’s 1996 by Charity Coleman
- Caroline Catz’s Delia Derbyshire: The Myths and the Legendary Tapes by Max Pearl
- Artavazd Pelechian’s Nature by Nicholas Elliott
- Black Unity Trio’s Al-Fatihah by Matthew Rivera
- André Breton and Philippe Soupault’s The Magnetic Fields by Marko Gluhaich
- Douglas Crimp’s Dance Dance Film Essays by Rosalyn Deutsche
Editor's Choice
- The Ross Brothers by RaMell Ross
- Mary Lovelace O’Neal by Suzanne Jackson
- Walton Ford by Andrés Reséndez
- Tashi Dorji and Aaron Turner
- Guadalupe Maravilla by Janine Antoni
- Danielle Evans by Jamel Brinkley
- Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore by Amy Gall
Interviews
- I Fall Asleep Watching Home Videos and Dream by Langston Cotman
- Sundown at the Eternal Staircase by GennaRose Nethercott
- Three Boyfriends by Brontez Purnell
Fiction
- Compass Poems by Allison Parrish
- Four Poems by Imani Elizabeth Jackson
- Two Poems by Rae Armantrout
Poetry
- Chess by Michael DeForge
Comic
- Protest Drawings by Steve Mumford
Journal
Imani Elizabeth Jackson is a poet from Chicago. Her writings have appeared in or are forthcoming from Triple Canopy, Apogee, the Arkansas International, Triquarterly, and elsewhere. She’s authored the chapbook saltsitting (rereleased by g l o s s, 2020), Consider the Tongue (with S*an D. Henry-Smith), and her first book, Flag, is forthcoming from Futurepoem. She lives in Providence now, where she’s an MFA candidate at Brown.
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i will erect the new paradise / i will build and decorate it / LIKE a garden in an outgoing/incoming vessel / with ornamented walls / with a basin in the floor
Clowns, compost, and decomposition.
The artist and poet discusses his childhood as a first-generation Palestinian immigrant, the formation of selfhood in preadolescence, and the psychology of drifting.
Originally published in
BOMB 154,
Winter 2021
Our winter issue includes interviews with Tashi Dorji, Danielle Evans, Walton Ford, Guadalupe Maravilla, Mary Lovelace O’Neal, the Ross Brothers, and Aaron Turner; DIY cookbooklets from Dindga McCannon; poetry by Rae Armantrout, Imani Elizabeth Jackson, and Allison Parrish; prose by Langston Cotman, GennaRose Nethercott, and Brontez Purnell; a comic by Michael DeForge; protest drawings by Steve Mumford; and more.
