Tripwire: a journal of poetics

06/10/2022

Announcing Tripwire #12: Five Stars: Selected Amazon Reviews, Volume 4 by Kevin Killian, selected by Ted Rees & David Buuck, with introductory words from Kevin edited by Dodie Bellamy. Curated from the over 2500 reviews that William Hall has lovingly archived, this latest edition showcases Kevin’s incomparable mix of wit and sincerity, pleasure and playfulness, his deep love of popular culture, and his unique critical voice.

#12 Five Stars: Selected Amazon Reviews, Volume 4 by Kevin Killian, selected by Ted Rees & David Buuck, with introductory words from Kevin edited by Dodie Bellamy. Curated from the over 2500 re…

03/01/2022

Two reviews by Mary Burger from issue 18 can now be read online at the Tripwire site! Enjoy!

https://tripwirejournal.files.wordpress.com/2022/03/mary-burger-on-etel-adnan-and-lynn-marie-kirby.pdf

https://tripwirejournal.files.wordpress.com/2022/03/mary-burger-on-etel-adnan-and-lynn-marie-kirby.pdf

10/14/2021

Newsletter drop: TRIPWIRE 18: now available! -

Poems from the Myanmar Spring, selected & translated by ko ko thett, by K Za Win, Kyi Zaw Aye, Khet Thi, Maung Yu Py, Win Myint, & Lynn Nway Eain, Toppled Monuments Archive, Honora Spicer, Nazanin Moghbeli

08/30/2021

Tripwire 18 is here! Check out this list of contributors and take a sneak peak at ko ko thett's translation of Khet Thi's work, Alana Levinson-LaBrosse's interview with Zêdan Xelef and Emad Bashar, Rachel Levitsky on Gail Scott, Rosie Stockton's poems after Rimbaud, and Simon Crafts on Maxe Crandall!

Cover image: from Stephanie Syjuco’s Block Out the Sun series Announcing Tripwire 18: Archive Fervor, with 350 pages of writing, art, reviews, interviews, & translations, with a special section…

07/06/2021

Friendly reminder that proposals for future issues of Tripwire are due August 1, 2021!

Please send proposals or inquires to [email protected] before submitting work. Some familiarity with the journal is appreciated. Looking for: essays (on contemporary writing, performance, a…

05/04/2021

Announcing TRIPWIRE PAMPHLET #10: A town, three cities, a fig, a riot, two blue hyacinths, three beginnings, five letters, a “death”, two solitudes, façades, four loose dogs, a doppelgänger, a likeness, three airport floors, thirty-six weeks... by Lotte L.S.

#10 A town, three cities, a fig, a riot, two blue hyacinths, three beginnings, five letters, a “death”, two solitudes, façades, four loose dogs, a doppelgänger, a likeness, three airport floors, th…

03/03/2021

Happening on March 13! Put it in your slingshot planner!

Remote access event, free and open to the public REGISTER TO ATTEND—or—Watch this program at YouTube With emcee, alex cruse This remote-access event starts promptly at 12:00 pm Pacific Time, a…

01/16/2021

Announcing TRIPWIRE PAMPHLET #9: todas las cajas están vacías / all the boxes are empty, by sara uribe, translated by jd pluecker!

todas las cajas están vacías / all the boxes are empty, by sara uribe, translated by jd pluecker. Este manifiesto apuesta por una escritura acuerpada, por escribir en, desde y con el cuerpo: con lo…

01/06/2021

Announcing Tripwire 17 – with 245 pages of writing, art, reviews, interviews, & translations, plus 27 pages of “Revolutionary Poetry from Lusophone Africa,” selected & translated by Chris Daniels!

Announcing Tripwire 17 – with 245 pages of writing, art, reviews, interviews, & translations, plus 27 pages of “Revolutionary Poetry from Lusophone Africa,” selected & tra…

11/23/2020

TRIPWIRE 16 is now available for 20% aka for $12 instead of $15. If you don't have a copy yet, now would be a great time to get one!

ANNOUNCING TRIPWIRE 16: THE PERFORMANCE/WRITING ISSUE with over 325 pages of writing, scores, reviews, interviews, & translations, plus an 80 page Kevin Killian Poets Theater Tribute! cove…

09/24/2020

ANNOUNCING TRIPWIRE PAMPHLET #8: The Processes, a factographic proem, by Peter Bouscheljong, translated by David Vichnar, Louis Armand & Tim König.

https://tripwirejournal.com/2020/09/24/announcing-tripwire-pamphlet-8-the-processes-a-factographic-proem-by-peter-bouscheljong-translated-by-david-vichnar-louis-armand-tim-konig/

08/06/2020

ANNOUNCING TWO NEW TRIPWIRE PAMPHLETS: #6: Making Ruins, by Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber and #7: The Tricking Hour, by Irene Silt!

Making Ruins, by Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber Published in conjunction with their exhibition at Republic Gallery, and their ongoing investigative work into architecture, public space, and colle…