Field notes
Recommendations, reviews, interviews & cultural noise. A stream, not a grid.
AN ESSAY
09 / 2026
I Write on the Backs of Receipts
Emily Dickinson wrote her late fragments on used envelopes. A defence of the scrap as a serious instrument.
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A SURVEY
09 / 2026
Six Small Magazines Doing It Right
Chapbooks stapled in editions of fifty, journals back from twenty-year hiatus, presses built out of spare rooms. Where the work is actually happening.
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AN ESSAY
09 / 2026
The Poetry of Error Messages
Guru Meditation. Abort, Retry, Fail? Fatal exception. On machines that become briefly, accidentally eloquent — and one famous poem that never existed.
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A BOOK REVIEW
09 / 2026
A Field Guide to Getting Lost
Rebecca Solnit's 2005 essays on distance, blue, and deliberate disorientation — still the best argument we know for not knowing where you are.
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A BOOK REVIEW
09 / 2026
sipèstisyon — Mckendy Fils-Aimé
Haitian superstition as inheritance, archive and defence mechanism. A debut that treats the lougawou as a serious literary technology.
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