Christina Mengert
Morning Marks
A constellation of the body woken spread out so many
points the light looks back on fondly open it
open it we’re looking for something anything
familiar we take our bodies to bed and inspect them
for bugs then matter even the window
doesn’t want us standing talking at it making it make
squares having felt itself boundless and pressing
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Per Aspera Ad Astra
If one perceives the figure in the distance as distant
already, the eye is too far in
the figure lost but desperately sending
for to be with, to span, bring with to have moved through violence
and achieve this beautiful contained
it is a condition of destruction the figure, not still a figure
will learn having reached its light here having burned
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Christina Mengert holds a Ph.D. in Creative Writing from the University of Denver and an MFA in Literary Arts from Brown University. Her poems and reviews have been published in Web Conjunctions, Denver Quarterly, The New Review of Literature, Parcel, and Aufgabe. She currently lives and teaches in Denver, Colorado.
VOLUME SIX (2020): ARCHIVES ON FIRE
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- * * * VOLUME ONE (2007): CONTINGENCY * * *
- Editors, "After Contingency"
- * * * ESSAYS * * *
- Osita Ezeliora, "The Swedish Academy"
- Bill Freind, "Inquiring Minds Want to Know"
- Rich Murphy, "Spectacle and Aporia"
- Erika M. Nelson, "Orpheus Underwater"
- Elizabeth Lee Steere, "The Very List"
- * * * FEATURE * * *
- "Difficult Praise"
- * * * INTERVIEWS * * *
- Mario Hibert with Kent Johnson
- Kelly Moffett with Mary Ann Samyn
- Francis Raven with Rae Armantrout
- * * * POETRY * * *
- John M. Bennett, "chIRping"
- Charles Bernstein, "Taches Blanches"
- Ann Cefola, "Aspiration" & "Shelter Island"
- Vernon Frazer, "Front Line" & "Vehement Treaties"
- Giles Goodland, "The Poet"
- John Mack, "White Lines"
- Marjorie Maddox, "Articulate" & other poems
- Peter Manson, "Sigh," "The Flowers," & "Saint"
- Christina Mengert, "Morning Marks" & "Per Aspera"
- * * * PROSE * * *
- Andrew H. Banecker, "Capital"
- Barbara Henning, "An Arc Into the Bougainvillea"
- Mark Jacobs, "My Letter to Sandy"
- Richard Kostelanetz, "Unobvious Disadvantages"
- Francis Raven, "Thanks for Letting Me Read"
- Eve Rosenbaum, "Before Sleep"
- * * * REVIEWS * * *
- J’Lyn Chapman, "BlazeVOX & the Post-Avant"
- R.G. Evans, review: "Sweet Masses / Anxious Heart"
- Tiel Lundy, review: "A Man You Could Love"
- Christina Mengert, "The Excited Interrogative"
- Richard Jeffrey Newman, review: "Griffin"
- Christy Rowe, review: "Joyful Noise"
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