Etcetera Poetry

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.”

14/02/2025

Newest issue spotlights reflections and poems from Cassidy McFadzean

feat. baroque exuberance, Etel Adnan and postcards, consolation, grief, Lucie Brock-Broido, Denise Riley, and more.

"We begin and end each day in water.
When you let down your hair
its strands were like waves,
and you were a young woman again."

“I remember a professor at Iowa warning me against reading too much Lucie Brock-Broido, that the baroque exuberance of her poems might send me even further towards the esoteric and obscure. But what I think of most when I read poems like “A Girl Ago,” is Brock-Broido’s capacity to create a t...

29/01/2025

Latest post and poems from Nathan Mader!

feat. Blakean openness, Rilke and memory, Emily Dickinson and cigarette breaks, Don Paterson, Ariana Areines, The Ex-Puritan Grain Magazine - the Journal of Eclectic Writing, Fine Period Press

"What am I to do
with this lifelong
desire to dissolve
into landscape
the green mountains
of Japan the badlands
of Montana ..."

“At some point I started rereading The Duino Elegies aloud to myself as I walked in the woods near my apartment during the pandemic, and I eventually realised that I had the entire first elegy memorized. While metabolising this poem that dissolves our “too-sharp distinctions” between the livin...

13/10/2024

New post and poem from Spencer Williams:

https://www.etceterapoetry.com/currentpost/spencer-williams

feat. unapologetic eros, elegy, borders, ophidiophobia, cats, Eduardo C. Corral, Hannah Bonner, David Wojnarowicz, Margaree Little, Tanya Marcuse, and Four Way Books

https://www.etceterapoetry.com/currentpost/spencer-williams

“We’ve had this ongoing conversation about how boring it is to be asked questions about being both a woman who f***s and an artist, and how those two things are often conflated as somehow producing, or being involved with, the other. We want women who are bored of fu***ng, who f**k with a shrug....

29/09/2024

Etcetera Poetry is excited to welcome M. W. Jaeggle as guest editor from October 2024 through September 2025 while I take a hiatus to focus on other projects. Look for his first issue later this month!

14/08/2024

New post and poems from Lindsey Webb:

https://www.etceterapoetry.com/currentpost/lindsey-webb

feat. an uncanny mirror, pan-American extractive capitalism, books that kick you out, Louise Glück, Jose Antonio Villarán, Maria Gabriela Llansol, Ecco Books, Counterpath, Deep Vellum Books, Archway Editions Ghost Proposal Rob McLennan

"[...] as if grene
could be punctured
could be stuck in whose
center could be found
the soft heart of the wood
packed with humid grene
might cave inward at the
impact the way a pile
of grass clippings collapses
under a rock thrown into
its center swallowing it"

Lindsey was rhizomed to Etcetera by Toby Altman (https://www.etceterapoetry.com/currentpost/altman)

“I think difficult subjects are sometimes best approached with self-aware, messy books, books that stretch themselves into unexpected zones and forms. Some books are too neat for their subject matter, too crafted. As someone working on a project about extraction, the size of the subject can feel o...

01/07/2024

New post and poems from Tirzah Goldenberg:

https://www.etceterapoetry.com/currentpost/tirzah-goldenberg

feat. green books, collaborative imaginations, the Brontës, her grandmothers’ bookplates and marginalia, an adventure story, ‘slender evidence,’ Ronald Johnson’s cornbread recipe, seasonal books, Wordsworth country //

“I wrote her, a stranger, about the environs. / My epistle was returned.”

Rachel Ferguson, Daphne du Maurier, Ronald Johnson, Virago Press W. W. Norton & Company Verge Books

Tirzah was rhizomed to Etcetera by Cass Eddington (https://www.etceterapoetry.com/currentpost/cass-eddington)

“Books that have been loved for generations and passed down to me to love in turn hold a sacred space in my personal library—my maternal grandmother’s books in particular, for she was a bibliophile and her volumes keep coming to me (as gifts from my mom); and it is through her books, her inter...

23/05/2024

New post and poems from Susan Briante!

https://www.etceterapoetry.com/currentpost/susan-briante

feat. Mexico City in the 1990s; Newark, NJ in the 1980s; stealing poetry anthologies from high school storerooms; pushing the traditional limits of the lyric; hopelessness and hope; the process of taking things mile by mile, word by word; C. D. Wright, Baraka, Sebald//

"Stars stagger out and don’t do anything. There’s a queen. There’s a node. Two hawks patrol the neighborhood trees. We are all writing the same poem, and the poem says: the ground is so uneven. This suburban street curls back on itself.";

Ecco Books, New Directions; Noemi Press

“When writing my second book, Utopia Minus, I became obsessed with landscape and cultural memory. I was taking tours in my mind. I love falling asleep somewhere over Kansas and waking up on the tarmac in San Francisco. But I also relish the process of taking things mile by mile, word by word, to n...