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"We fuck death put it there ostensibly" (from The Hole)
On Matt Mullican's Bulletin Boards
"If that fire would burn" (from The Hole)
Teaching Etel Adnan’s The Arab Apocalypse
Animal Communism
On Renée Green's Other Planes of There
"No one was the wiser" (from The Hole)
A grave in exchange for the commons (on Fred Moten)
"We gave our limbs we gave our throats" (from The Hole)
Remains: Poems 1999-2009 (Unpublished book draft)
Constraint is not silent nor at rest
Hannah Weiner and Intense Autobiography
Literal Blood (from The Remains)
Somatic Poetics
The Fate of Number (from The Remains)
Future Citizen
Sore Ethics (introduction to Supple Science: a Robert Kocik Primer)
For (from The Remains)
The Accident
Delays in Glass: Social Media Poetics
Meatyard, My Neighbor (from The Remains)
Reading Martha Rosler Reading
Now Man (from The Remains)
“None of us have rules, none of us have scripture”: CA Conrad’s Advanced Elvis Course and the Politics of Immanence
Soon-To-Be (from The Remains)
Devotions (from The Remains)
Debt I (from Withdrawn)
The Girl Who Loved Spiders (children's story)
from Before Freedom (from The Remains)
“Because the pronouns have already been wiped out”: On Melissa Buzzeo’s The Devastation
MANTLE (from The Remains)
Century of Clouds questionnaire
Beginning Compendiums of a Bare Oak (from The Remains)
Death Is My Gift / Afterlives PDF
On the Occult
Macho Man, Tell It To My Heart: Collected by Julie Ault
Songs (from Death is my Gift)
In the Ditch
Pee Pee Town (children's story)
Death is My Gift II (from Death is my Gift)
Robert Kocik's Portraiture, a Reminiscence
After Madeline Gins
Telegenically Dead (from Death is my Gift)
Interview with Guy Ben-Ner for BOMB
The Slimy Book (children's story)
Plan (from Death is my Gift)
St. Bruce
We are just two things of air
Class (from Death is my Gift)
Ekphrasis
The Boy Who Wanted to Be a Bird (Children's Story)
Charnel Ground II (from Death is my Gift)
Interview with Adam Pendleton for BOMB
Charnel Ground I (from Death is my Gift)
"Reunite" (George Floyd Multiple)
The Gift of Death (from Death is my Gift)
"All it took to light the house"
Florence Journal May/June 2014
No Names (from Death Is My Gift)
Charlie (children's story)
The non-reduction of phonic substance
I Hope You Are in That Sun (from Death Is My Gift)
Prayer Beginning with a Phrase from Paul B. Preciado
Journal of a Plague Month
Impassed (from Death Is My Gift)
Goodnight
The Man Who Hated Rainbows (children's story)
Lit (from Death Is My Gift)
Crowns (II)
Sublime Anger (from Death Is My Gift)
The Lighthouse
Evaluation (from Death Is My Gift)
Crowns
“It never occurred to me that I would be a teacher” (from Left Melancholy part 3, My Students)
Revenants, Remains (from Death Is My Gift)
An Adjunct Phenomenology
The Recognition (from Death Is My Gift)
"Certain classes have chemistry, and ours did" (from Left Melancholy part 3, My Students)
False Flags (from Death Is My Gift)
“On the first day of class all of the seats were occupied” (from Left Melancholy part 3, My Students)
Sonnet 64 (from Death Is My Gift)
Love to the Teacher (from Left Melancholy part 3, My Students)
Place of Action (from Death Is My Gift)
The Art of Withdrawal [on Lee Lozano and Ben Kinmont]
Bruised Music (from Death Is My Gift)
“When my contract was renewed for another year” (from Left Melancholy part 3, My Students)
In Actu (from Death Is My Gift)
“On the first day of class I felt scared” (from Left Melancholy part 3, My Students)
A Thousand Levels (from Death Is My Gift)
“I didn’t know how to approach you at first” (from Left Melancholy part 3, My Students)
Letter to J. Morgan Puett (from Withdrawn: a Discourse)
After Hito Steyerl (from Death Is My Gift)
“You would always sit on the margin of the class” (from Left Melancholy part 3, My Students)
Letter to Gregory Sholette (from Withdrawn: a Discourse)
Mouth Writing (from Death Is My Gift)
In Lieu of a “Statement of Teaching Philosophy” (from Left Melancholy part 3, My Students)
Left Melancholy parts 1 & 2 ms. PDF
Letter to Gregg Bordowitz
Does the Document Promise? (from Death Is My Gift)
On Left Melancholy parts 1 and 2
Letter to Glenn Ligon (from Withdrawn: a Discourse)
You Make Me Want to Shout (from Death Is My Gift)
“I dare not use the term ‘ally’” (from Left Melancholy part 2)
Design Proposal for Etel Adnan's Reader
Proletarian Nights (from Death Is My Gift)
Annotation/Redaction (from Left Melancholy part 2)
Letter to Fred Moten (from Withdrawn: a Discourse)
Thek (from Death Is My Gift)
from Headless (from Left Melancholy part 2)
How I Did Not Write Certain of My Books (from Withdrawn: a Discourse)
No Milk Today (from Death Is My Gift)
from Headless (from Left Melancholy part 2)
Letter to Etel Adnan (from Withdrawn: a Discourse)
Post-Sovereign (from Death Is My Gift)
from Headless (from Left Melancholy part 2)
Letter to Jordan Scott (from Withdrawn: a Discourse)
Afterlives (from Left Melancholy part 2)
Bruce Boone and the Gay Straights
Corpsefuckers (from Left Melancholy part 2)
Letter to Dodie Bellamy (from Withdrawn: a Discourse)
For Terry (from Death Is My Gift)
Ressentiment (from Left Melancholy Part 2, Ressentiment)
My Thoughts (from Death Is My Gift)
Introduction to "For Opacity"
Letter to David Buuck (from Withdrawn: a Discourse)
Being Gone to be Here (from Left Melancholy part 2)
Letter to Dana Ward (from Withdrawn: a Discourse)
Teaching New Narrative
This is not a poem for JA (from Left Melancholy Part 2)
Letter to Chase Granoff (from Withdrawn: a Discourse)
Christmas, 2014 (from Left Melancholy Part 2)
Eastman PDF (Unpublished book draft)
Death Is My Gift I (from Death Is My Gift)
Letter to CA Conrad (from Withdrawn: a Discourse)
Slavery’s Exiles (from Left Melancholy Part 2)
Note to “Eastman”
Letter to Bruce Andrews (from Withdrawn: a Discourse)
Friendship (from Left Melancholy Part 2)
The Holy Presence of Joan of Arc (from Eastman)
Letter to Bhanu Kapil (from Withdrawn: a Discourse)
The Camp (from Left Melancholy Part 2)
Crazy ------ (from Eastman)
Stuffed Cat (from Left Melancholy Part 2)
Letter to Beka Economopoulos (from Withdrawn: A Discourse)
Zurich Concert (from Eastman)
Letter to Adam Pendleton (from Withdrawn: a Discourse)
Ante-Monuments (from Left Melancholy Part 2)
Creation (from Eastman)
Use Without Using
“The End of the world of course”: 5 Questions & 4 Prompts for De/worlding (from Left Melancholy Part 2)
Femenine (from Eastman)
On Max Razdow's True Corpus
But Lose the Feeling (from Left Melancholy Part 2)
Gay Guerrilla (from Eastman)
A Different Way to Destroy (from Death Is My Gift)
From “Other Suns” (On Anne Lesley Selcer's Sun Cycle)
The Rabbit in the Moon (from Left Melancholy Part 2)
Fugue No. 7 (from Eastman)
After Marcus Rediker (from Left Melancholy Part 2)
The Refusal (In the Tradition) (from Left Melancholy Part 2)
Dolmen Music (from Eastman)
After Julie Ault (from Death Is My Gift)
My Students (from Left Melancholy Part 2)
Stay On It (from Eastman)
"I didn’t know how to approach you at first" (from Left Melancholy Part 3)
What Wings Raised: Fragments For Paradisical Beauty
The Refusal (from Left Melancholy Part 1)
Evil ****** (from Eastman)
Striving for Protection (for Jack Whitten)
“We are Abandoned” (from Left Melancholy Part 1)
If You’re So Smart Why Aren’t You Rich? (from Eastman)
Statement for Eastman
Into Bride // Army of Roses (a meditation on suicide after Maya Deren's Meshes of the Afternoon)
Death Is My Gift (from Left Melancholy Part 1)
Eight Songs for a Mad King (from Eastman)
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice introductions (2010-2012)
Wood in Time (from Eastman)
Statement for Meatyard, My Neighbor
Splitting (on Gordon Matta-Clark and ethical obligation)
Trumpet (from Eastman)
On Eléna Rivera's Scaffolding
Thruway (from Eastman)
On Jibade-Khalil Huffman’s STANZA
Akademie ‘loss (from Left Melancholy Part I)
Mumbaphilia (from Eastman)
Some Notes on Note-Taking (after Bhanu Kapil’s Ban en Banlieue)
Macle (from Eastman)
Go Crazy
Father, Don’t You See I’m Burning? (from Left Melancholy Part I)
440 (from Eastman)
On Renee Gladman’s Prose Architectures
Shadow Commons (from Left Melancholy Part I)
Comp 1 (from Eastman)
On the Occult
Prelude for Julius Eastman (from Eastman)
For a Poetics of Healing (from Left Melancholy Part I)
Her Research About Horses (from Left Melancholy Part I)
At whose expense are you held? (notes on Midsommar)
Post-Face to Withdrawn: a Discourse
Place of Action (from Left Melancholy Part I)
“I miss people I haven’t even met yet” (from Left Melancholy Part I)
Ruins in Reverse (from Left Melancholy Part I)
Crying (from Left Melancholy Part I)
Prologue to Left Melancholy Part I
Arthur Russell Revised: Hold On To Your Dreams
On [Jodi Melamed’s] Represent and Destroy
Leslie’s Tears (for Leslie Feinberg)
Maybe it’s just that I loved him (Kevin Killian tribute)
Touch Him When (for Kevin Killian)
Soon-to-be
Letter to Kevin Killian regarding "Goodnight"
Stranger Things
Goodnight (for Kevin Killian)
Why Poets Theater Now?
Second Reflection, Second Innocence (on art after the debt crisis)
I Tried To Be a Socialist (on Asad Haider's Mistaken Identity)
I Hate Poetry
Why I Teach Afro-Pessimism
