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Alexander Benedict - Carrying Noise Like A Cloud

demonic palaces / All art should be in service to communism / a fun ride / erotic novel / receipts today, industrial printing access tomorrow / Fela Kuti / Jean Genet / Robert Jordan & Capital / dancing shoes / carrying noise like a cloud / cargo bikes / cleaning the presses / maintenance work / the machine & the socialization of work / barcodes have to go Alexander Benedict operates offset presses for a living in Cleveland, Ohio and prints receipts for betweenthehighway press. He is writing a biography on Cleveland poet and publisher d.a. levy. A couple books: "Fragments of a Mirrored-Voice" (Above / Ground) and "OFFHANDEDLY" (Ethel Zine) Some essays: “waste is a form of devotion” (Community Mausoleum) and "From Requiems to Elegies" (Periodicities). What will publishing poetry today and tomorrow look like?

Summer 2025 green_space: Amie Zimmerman, Thom Eichelberger-Young, Mathilda Cullen, Alex Benedict, & Sara Lefsky

This reading took place in Chapin Parkway, between Delevan and Potomac, in Buffalo, NY in the furious summer of 2025. The audio contains the contributions of combustion engines, birds, insects, and audience members. Readers include Amie Zimmerman, Thom Eichelberger-Young, Mathilda Cullen, Alex Benedict, & Sara Lefsky.

Dominick Knowles - Costco as the Base of a Communist Project

The geometry of death / use value overtaking exchange value and them both abolishing each other / Tripwire / “even the moon hates cops” / Brendan Joyce / summer garden / Luddism / the moon a horrified witness / The White Rose / Milf Manor / Castro’s “Nothing Can Stop the Course of History / the fragment / nourishment / regimes of time / escarole / the landlord’s boyfriend / Faith Smith / Costco as the base of a communist project / in blockages think about the martyrs of Palestine / me inside a shape that was impossible to describe / carpenter-chef-jazz musician / use is a demon / what a poem is doing vs. what someone is doing with it Dominick Knowles is a poet and academic worker researching modernist and contemporary poetry of the Americas. Their writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Mediations, Viewpoint, Post45 Contemporaries, Modernism/modernity, Bloomsbury Academic, and Amerikastudien, among others. They are currently NTT faculty in the English, American Studies, and Labor Studies departments at UMass Boston, as well as Professor of Writing and Critical Thinking and the incoming Academic Director at the Clemente Course in the Humanities (Dorchester). (And for green_space’s money they are doing some of the most important, provocative curation of poetry in this moment through Protean, a publication that breaks down the traditional firewall between literature and leftist politics.) https://dominickknowles.com/ [https://dominickknowles.com/] https://proteanmag.com/ [https://proteanmag.com/] Email us: greengreenspacespace@gmail.com Thanks to Jake for the mandolin noodles.

Amie Zimmerman - The Power of the Poem Is Its Mobility

Printing-reading sonic overlay / angels / rolling ink / the mobility of the poem / the book as a vessel for a relationship / collectively making time / collating together / gardening / home repair / dreams / demons / sitting with it / if we could swap dreams / silence We ask Amie Zimmerman 10 questions, 7 from our Season 1 guests. Amie: Amie Zimmerman is from Portland, Oregon. Her work has been published, or is forthcoming, in West Branch, Bennington Review, Prelude [https://preludemag.com/contributors/amie-zimmerman/], Denver Quarterly, and Paperbag [https://www.paperbagazine.com/IssueNo13/ZimmermanIV.html], among others. She is the author of four chapbooks, including Compliance [https://www.essaypress.org/ep-104/](Essay Press) and, with artist Samantha Wall, the collaboration 31 Days/The Self [https://ursusamericanuspress.bigcartel.com/product/31-days-the-self-by-samantha-wall-amie-zimmerman] (Ursus Americanus). Currently, Amie lives in upstate NY, where she works as a hairstylist, union organizer, and PhD student. Along with Matthew Klane and Hajar Hussaini, she co-curates the reading series Salon Salvage.

Chaun Webster - Other Suns

Wail Song / André 3000’s NewBlue Sun / expectations of black masculine performance / the desire for legibility / other suns / Sun Ra’s Blue Universe / sordid relationship with poetry / poetry that seeks the end of poetry, the end of genre and disciplinarity / what is left of poetry after its stripped of material norms / poetry’s exceptional theoretical burden / resisting the norms of value / historical traumas disrupting a linear senses of time / work in oppositionality to use / the terms of value / Afropessimism / noise as less cohered / din is discourse / Édouard Glissant / chasing that inarticulable thing / a space where speaking in tongues is normative / dreams as an archival space / dreams disrupting narrative / a wallet   Chaun Webster is a poet and graphic designer living in Minneapolis whose work is attempting to put pressure on the spatial and temporal limitations of writing, of the english language, as a way to demonstrate its incapacity for describing blackness outside of a regime of death and dying. Webster’s debut book, Gentry!fication: or the scene of the crime, was published by Noemi Press in 2018, and received the 2019 Minnesota Book Award for poetry. Webster's latest book is Wail Song, published by Black Ocean Press in 2023. https://www.blackocean.org/catalog1/wail-song [https://www.blackocean.org/catalog1/wail-song]