Mary Ruefle is the author of TRANCES OF THE BLAST (Wave Books, 2013), MADNESS, RACK, AND HONEY: COLLECTED LECTURES (Wave Books, 2012), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism, and SELECTED POEMS (Wave Books, 2010), winner of the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. She has published ten books of poetry and a book of prose. Ruefle is the recipient of numerous honors, including an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and a Whiting Award.

Published by Fivehundred places, founded in 2012 by Jason Dodge. On the cover of each book is a dead scissor by Paul Elliman.

Ishion Hutchinson was born in Port Antonio, Jamaica. His Poetry collection, Far District: Poems (2010), won the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award. Other honours include a Whiting Writers’ Award, the Glenna Luschei Award from Prairie Schooner Journal and the Academy of American Poets’ Larry Levis Prize. He is the Meringoff Sesquicentennial Fellow Assistant Professor of English at Cornell University and a contributing editor to the literary journal, Toungue: A Journal of Writing & Art.

Published by Fivehundred places, founded in 2012 by Jason Dodge. On the cover of each book is a dead scissor by Paul Elliman.

Caroline Knox’s eighth book, FLEMISH, appeared from Wave Books in 2013. Her sixth, QUAKER GUNS, won a 2009 Recommended Reading Award from the Massachusetts Center for the Book. HE PAVES THE ROAD WITH IRON BARS received the 2005 Maurice English Award. She has received grants or prizes from the NEA, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Fund for Poetry, and Poetry magazine, among others. Her work has been in American Scholar, A Public Space, Boston Review, Harvard, New Republic, Paris Review, Yale Review, Poetry, and elsewhere; it is anthologized in BEST AMERICAN POETRY 1988 and 1994, and in POSTMODERN AMERICAN POETRY: A NORTON ANTHOLOGY, Second Edition (2013).

Published by Fivehundred places, founded in 2012 by Jason Dodge. On the cover of each book is a dead scissor by Paul Elliman.

‘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.