‘Aviarium’ is a study of birdlife. In these fourteen poems, each focusing on a particular species of bird—from the hummingbird to the bone-eating vulture—swift and simple gestures are elevated: a folding wing; entrails descending down a canopy. Published by Fivehundred places, founded in 2012 by Jason Dodge. On the cover of each book is a dead scissor by Paul Elliman.

If I am a Silueta is from Melissa Buzzeo’s poetic memoir in progress. These poems have the sense of being taken from an ongoing stream, flowing onto each other and repeating to wild, cumulative affect. Body and psyche are tangled and aching, angry and tender. The silueta is the shape used—in recent memory—by Ana Mendieta, and present in sculptures of women found across many cultures back to the ancients. Collaborating across millennia, the silueta is both goddess and every-woman—the body is emptied, out-lined, echoed in presence and absence. Published by Fivehundred places, founded in 2012 by Jason Dodge. On the cover of each book is a dead scissor by Paul Elliman.

A young girl is licked raw by a panther’s tongue; a 116 year-old man checks his answering machine; genitalia are morphed and re-imagined. The stories of Thirteen Intimacies are uncanny in the truest sense: strangely familiar. ‘Intimacy’ becomes corporeal, metaphysical, animal, all at once. Katie Farris’s prose pieces, sometimes categorised as ‘flash fiction’, are known hybrids of fairytale, mundanities, myth and biology, emerging from a writer who straddles many disciplines. Published by Fivehundred places, founded in 2012 by Jason Dodge. On the cover of each book is a dead scissor by Paul Elliman.

Matthew Dickman was born in Portland, Oregon in 1975. His first book, All-American Poem, was winner of the 2008 American Poetry Review / Honickman First Book Prize in Poetry, published by American Poetry Review.His second full collection of poetry, Mayakovsky's Revolver, was published by Norton, 2012. Published by Fivehundred places, founded in 2012 by Jason Dodge. On the cover of each book is a dead scissor by Paul Elliman.

Come Correct interrogates the origins and edges of writing and the writer. Writing becomes marks, scratchings, imitation, physical sensation, infection- and is continuously propelled. “I cancelled/class to write this poem I a little bit counted chickens.” This is at once coming from a transgressive linguist, writing poetry alive with diverse ‘englyssh’ which flows through deeply thought quotidian moments. Published by Fivehundred places, founded in 2012 by Jason Dodge. On the cover of each book is a dead scissor by Paul Elliman.

CHARLOIS IS CHARLOIS is the first English translation of poems by Rieneke Minderman-Grobben (Rotterdam, 1944–2018) published on the occasion of Charlois Speciaal by Action Publishing Collective, Rotterdam. Edited by Quenton Miller & Ilke Gers. Translation by Johanna Monk. Designed by Ilke Gers.