Homepage
Open in app
Sign inGet started

Anomaly

International. Intersecting. Always Interesting.

  • Features
  • Reviews
  • Interviews
  • Books To Watch Out For
  • ICYMI
  • Pulse
  • ANMLY#31
  • Blackshop Tries to Get Into an Ivy League School: A Conversation with Ed Lin

    Blackshop Tries to Get Into an Ivy League School: A Conversation with Ed Lin

    Welcome to Blackshop: a column that thinks about allyship between BIPOC people, brought to you by Nina Sharma and Quincy Scott Jones.
    Go to the profile of Blackshop
    Blackshop
    Jan 6
    “Language delivers me to me” —  A Review of Alice Notley’s ‘For the Ride’

    “Language delivers me to me” —  A Review of Alice Notley’s ‘For the Ride’

    Notley’s newest collection offers a potential answer to this question, simple in wording but by no means in its implication: “Language…
    Go to the profile of Margaryta Golovchenko
    Margaryta Golovchenko
    Dec 15, 2020
    THEATRIX: An interview with Terese Svoboda

    THEATRIX: An interview with Terese Svoboda

    Karla Kelsey interviews Terese Svoboda about her forthcoming collection Theatrix: Poetry Plays
    Go to the profile of ANMLY
    ANMLY
    Dec 3, 2020
    Call for Submissions: WRITING OURSELVES / MAD

    Call for Submissions: WRITING OURSELVES / MAD

    With a focus on Madness as method, this folio aims to celebrate the ways we seize control of our stolen narratives.
    Go to the profile of ANMLY
    ANMLY
    Nov 22, 2020
    ~Notes on a Journey to the Ever-Dying Lands~

    ~Notes on a Journey to the Ever-Dying Lands~

    Arturo Desimone reviews Argentine poet Ezequiel Zaidenwerg’s Lyric Poetry Is Dead.
    Go to the profile of Arturo Desimone
    Arturo Desimone
    Nov 17, 2020
    DEMOCRACY LESSONS

    DEMOCRACY LESSONS

    Jennifer Karmin shares a participatory poem for Election Day.
    Go to the profile of ANMLY
    ANMLY
    Nov 3, 2020
    3 More Books to Cheer on Ace Week

    3 More Books to Cheer on Ace Week

    For Ace Week, Marisa Manuel returns with three new book reviews to celebrate your asexual friends, family, or self with!
    Go to the profile of Marisa Manuel
    Marisa Manuel
    Oct 28, 2020
    No one is named. They are assigned: A Review of Jessica Abughatta’s Strip

    No one is named. They are assigned: A Review of Jessica Abughatta’s Strip

    I come to Jessica Abughattas’s debut Strip as a fellow poet, a friend, and a Palestinian American from the Los Angeles county suburbs…
    Go to the profile of Summer Farah
    Summer Farah
    Oct 20, 2020
    Echoes and Voices in Philip Metres’ Shrapnel Maps

    Echoes and Voices in Philip Metres’ Shrapnel Maps

    Alina Stefanescu explores the tensions between maps, histories, land and its people in Philip Metres’ haunting, illuminated Shrapnel Maps.
    Go to the profile of Alina Stefanescu
    Alina Stefanescu
    Oct 14, 2020
    Queer Surrealism & Futurist Analog Collage

    Queer Surrealism & Futurist Analog Collage

    If there’s any word to describe Sarah Courville’s relationship with her craft, it’s serendipitous.
    Go to the profile of lili steffen
    lili steffen
    Sep 22, 2020
    Feminist Ecology and Negotiating Reality in Kathryn Nuernberger’s “Rue”

    Feminist Ecology and Negotiating Reality in Kathryn Nuernberger’s “Rue”

    What is the difference between escaping from reality and seeking solace in a space that is located somewhere between reality and an…
    Go to the profile of Margaryta Golovchenko
    Margaryta Golovchenko
    Sep 17, 2020
    “yes the body”: A Quarantined Review of Spawn

    “yes the body”: A Quarantined Review of Spawn

    “Delicate and intense” also described my experience reading Miller’s translation of Gill’s spare and precise poetry during a pandemic
    Go to the profile of Stacy Pratt
    Stacy Pratt
    Aug 18, 2020
    3 Books About Asexuality to Close Out the Summer

    3 Books About Asexuality to Close Out the Summer

    August is well underway, and much of the world is still quarantined. Our usual summer break has given us little time to rest or recharge —…
    Go to the profile of Marisa Manuel
    Marisa Manuel
    Aug 12, 2020
    Who Speaks For Us Here, the third collection by Leslie Contreras Schwartz is a chorus of survivors.

    Who Speaks For Us Here, the third collection by Leslie Contreras Schwartz is a chorus of survivors.

    Informed by her own experience with dissociative identity disorder, the fragmentation in this collection is not just formal or…
    Go to the profile of Maria Esquinca
    Maria Esquinca
    Jun 24, 2020
    A Note Before You Join

    A Note Before You Join

    The university is a scam, an ever-hungry succubus needing the blood of all society’s working members to keep it running.
    Go to the profile of ANMLY
    ANMLY
    Jun 16, 2020
    translatingⁿ salamanca

    translatingⁿ salamanca

    Web-based, long-distance, collaborative translation experiment using a poem by the Salvadoran poet Elena Salamanca…
    Go to the profile of ANMLY
    ANMLY
    Jun 11, 2020
    Black Lives Don’t Matter, Black Bodies Do.

    Black Lives Don’t Matter, Black Bodies Do.

    Your black body has been invaded down to its marrow; across space and time. We must birth ourselves — again.
    Go to the profile of ANMLY
    ANMLY
    Jun 2, 2020
    Open Position: Assistant Folio Editor at Anomaly

    Open Position: Assistant Folio Editor at Anomaly

    Anomaly is looking for an Assistant Folio Editor, to work with current Folio Editor Zebulon Wimsatt on the production of featured folios.
    Go to the profile of ANMLY
    ANMLY
    May 19, 2020
    a ketamine-ramped tour of the trans girl suicide museum

    a ketamine-ramped tour of the trans girl suicide museum

    “it’s ok to experiment with different ways of having your body in public, especially if you have a heavily surveilled body.”
    Go to the profile of Noa/h Fields
    Noa/h Fields
    May 13, 2020
    Call for Work :: To Speak as a Flower : A Folio of Performance Writing

    Call for Work :: To Speak as a Flower : A Folio of Performance Writing

    We are interested in work that uses performance as one of its tools, work which is made possible by a relationship to performance
    Go to the profile of ANMLY
    ANMLY
    May 12, 2020
    Is Mariko Ōhara’s ‘Hybrid Child’ Feminist?

    Is Mariko Ōhara’s ‘Hybrid Child’ Feminist?

    (CN: Rape, Misogyny, Violence) Mariko Ōhara’s science-fiction novel Hybrid Child is a book worthy of prolonged contemplation.
    Go to the profile of Margaryta Golovchenko
    Margaryta Golovchenko
    Apr 28, 2020
    3 Books About Asexuality to Bring Us Together (While Social Distancing)

    3 Books About Asexuality to Bring Us Together (While Social Distancing)

    Since COVID-19 emerged as a global threat, it’s been hard for me to focus on anything else. News about symptoms, social distancing, and…
    Go to the profile of Marisa Manuel
    Marisa Manuel
    Apr 21, 2020
    From the Blackfeet Reservation to Great Falls, Stephen Graham Jones’s The Only Good Indians Will…

    From the Blackfeet Reservation to Great Falls, Stephen Graham Jones’s The Only Good Indians Will…

    The inimitable — and prolific Blackfeet master of horror is back with a killer of a book. The Only Good Indians (out with Saga/Simon &…
    Go to the profile of Erika T. Wurth
    Erika T. Wurth
    Apr 14, 2020
    About AnomalyLatest StoriesArchiveAbout MediumTermsPrivacy