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Etcetera is a journal of reading recommendations and new work by poets.

24/09/2025

Latest issue is dedicated to work by Zane Koss!

feat. William Carlos Williams, Hugo García Manriquez, “lobstee” and the QWERTY keyboard, lyric disintegration, performance, and class

"I used to think we were middle class because we weren’t on welfare
I used to think we were middle class because my parents weren’t on drugs
I used to think we were middle class because my dad wasn’t in jail
I think it had something to do with class"

“Aram Saroyan is perhaps most famous as the target of conservative political outrage over a $750 payment for the inclusion of his one-word poem “lighght” (1968) in an NEA-funded anthology twenty-five years after its original publication. Like “lighght” but written a year later, “lobstee....

09/07/2025

Latest issue spotlights work by Andre Spears!

feat. Beckett, Rimbaud, Olson, the distinction between poetry and prose, archaeology, the poetic compendium.

“Despite appearances to the contrary, the language in Cavafy is anything but simple: it combines and interweaves strata in the Greek language that include ancient Greek, New Testament Greek, katharevoussa, and modern Greek. By the same token, I realize now that for all its originality and access

13/06/2025

Latest issue features work by Ben Robinson!

feat. Ben Lerner, Michael Ondaatje, bpNichol, the school "book report," the library information desk, poetic mapping, McClelland & Stewart, Palimpsest books, Arbeiter Ring Publishing

"Returning from parental leave,
coworkers I had barely spoken to
covered my desk in
gifts each morning: a seized
safety gate, atonal exersaucer,
a single disposable swim diaper."

“Ondaatje’s books are still transportative, bringing me back to that Romantic teenager, vacant and floaty. Some of the poems are likewise a bit mythic and removed for me now, as though they were written in calligraphy (a writer-in-residence I met with called Ondaatje “Baroque”) but he has a ...

08/05/2025

Latest issue features work by Michael Boughn. feat. Spring and All, Charles Olson and Bob Dylan, Emerson's America, the New American Poetry and the poetics of the "Outside"

"Where you wake up is where you begin
with or without angelic attendance
though that often has to do with how
you wake up as much as interdimensional
visitation rights"

“Olson had moved beyond the institutional poetry reading, finding it to be little more than a performance rather than an engagement with the real. He was after a numinous transcendence through language, to open the world toward its further self.”

03/04/2025

Latest issue is dedicated to the thoughts and poems of Khashayar "Kess" Mohammadi.

feat. Rilke and resilient bed bugs, Sheikh Mahmoud Shabistari, Paul Celan and the Pierre Joris, translation, mysticism, and more.

"A well-deserved nobody

Finds me n**e amid form-

Fitting etceteras. Vodka

Sauce in low-tide. Pecorino

Romano."

“Rilke’s Book of Hours got me through bed bugs.”

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