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is a journal that aims to produce a charged atmosphere around artistic and critical approaches. Hence, specs is willing to live in a constant state of flux, with the mission of propagating strange and involved sympathies between disparate genres and forms. We want to break down hierarchies between poems, fictions, and critical writing. We hope for seepages, warped conversations, and misappropriat

ions between areas of content. specs, a nonprofit journal of contemporary art and literature, was founded in 2007 and is published annually at Rollins College.

Up today: some of issue 7 in Burrow Press! make sure to check out an excerpt of Jenna Lê's fabulous essay!
16/06/2016

Up today: some of issue 7 in Burrow Press! make sure to check out an excerpt of Jenna Lê's fabulous essay!

As I grew taller and my attention span longer, I graduated to watching full-length Disney movies, including Sleeping Beauty (which terrified me), Snow White (which also terrified me), and Cinderell…

Minal Hajratwala as unicorn on the cover of a new book.  Read her fantastic "Unicorn" poems in the latest issue of SPECS...
03/06/2016

Minal Hajratwala as unicorn on the cover of a new book. Read her fantastic "Unicorn" poems in the latest issue of SPECS.

Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2016. 102 pages, illus. ISBN-13: 978-0692720547. OPEN-ACCESS e-book and $19.00 [€17.00/£15.00] in print: paperbound/5 X 8 in. This is a timely and exciting collection of essays that endeavours to showing us the way to a radical and critical way of reading po*******hy...

A piece by Rajiv Mohabir, who writes about the narwhal in the Unicorn issue!
03/06/2016

A piece by Rajiv Mohabir, who writes about the narwhal in the Unicorn issue!

"Cutting was not about externalizing the pain of being a misfit. It was about winding disparate threads of the ways I didn’t fit into one visible chord."

you can read the current issue of SPECS (7 - UNICORN) online at Rollins Scholarship: http://scholarship.rollins.edu/spec...
23/05/2016

you can read the current issue of SPECS (7 - UNICORN) online at Rollins Scholarship: http://scholarship.rollins.edu/specs/

SPECS (specifications, speculations, spectacle, . . .) is a journal that aims to produce a charged atmosphere around artistic and critical approaches. Hence, specs is willing to live in a constant state of flux, with the mission of propagating strange and involved sympathies between disparate genres...

22/05/2016
Rajiv Mohabir!  Find him also in SPECS Unicorn!  7!
19/05/2016

Rajiv Mohabir! Find him also in SPECS Unicorn! 7!

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More from Tim Jones-Yelvington!  Also in this issue of SPECS.
18/05/2016

More from Tim Jones-Yelvington! Also in this issue of SPECS.

Abraham the Daddy, Isaac the Boy Fiction / Tim Jones-Yelvington/ Fiction :: Abraham the Daddy, Isaac the Boy :: (Recognized Degenerate Version) 1 1 For Daddy Abraham had many sons, and of these, was Isaac his youngest. Daddy Abraham offered Isaac shelter, and Isaac took him in his mouth. Daddy Abra...

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11/05/2016

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– Reviewed by Angelina D’Roza – The Trouble with Humpadori, from The (Great) Indian Poetry Collective, was an Editor’s Choice Award Winner, described as “a screwball experiment in empire buil…

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