ANNAOTO
Chris Arnold
Wayne Brinson
john domenico calvelli
Angela Chang
Chacal Cósmico
Kavi Duvvoori
Leonardo Flores
Claude Heiland-Allen
Chris Joseph
Warren C. Longmire
Jonah Lubin
Lewis Milholland
Jen Nesbitt
Mark Sample
Harshit Singh
Irish Tee-Sy
AnneMarie Torresen
Helen Shewolfe Tseng
Yohanna Joseph Waliya
Andy Wallace
Christine Wilks
Nanette Wylde
Hamid Yuksel
“At the round crossroads, six maidens dance.” One incendiary, iridescent Roguelike is zero-player; another, square and minimal, offers a generated silva oscura with scattered collectibles. See the current of diagonal ASCII intersections and apprehend a rectilinear dream of disconnected suburbia. Housing developments may be a good place to knock on doors and evangelize; a grid can also frame the experience of leaving one’s faith. Take inventory of your childhood bedroom and consider, in each case: should I stay or should I go? Note the round faces reacting to meeting or passing. Draw a sometimes self-erasing path — with hiking on and off the main trail in mind. Get a round ball pit flowing and growing to read the quatrain. Read colonial and indigenous words weaving and intersecting in the round.
“Three of flesh, three of silver.” Choose your own path and pitch to make a three-part story. An homage to Creeley presents spiced buns that bear not only a traditional single letter but also three-word phrases. More portentous, and eventually corrupted, three-word phrases are dealt out in another poem. If three words at a time are too many, consider the spare chronicle of a life sketched as a sequence of single words against a wavering background. One of these works we present deals with the eyes (often automated) that are on us, while another presents the “I”s we become, the different faces we put on. Draw by letter instead of painting by number — an interactive twist on Michael Winkler’s artistic project of many decades. Pilot around a window more than half full of terse, rapidly shifting dreams and fears. Click though different chewy treats and texts.
“Dreams of yesterday pursue them, but the golden Polyphemus holds them tight.” A neverending text features multiform and fearsome beasts that feast on diverse diets. Hacked from concept and context, terminology becomes the material for a poem. Roll your mouse around this one to see that these red terms aren’t abstractions. See one environmental poem fade from green and read another that shimmers in rainbow color. Stir things up, assuming you already have the the tea on online slang. Meet a blacked-out sonnet of Shakespeare’s; you might imagine the process will be erasure, but it’s more new order.
“The guitar!” (Federico García Lorca)
Each of the poems in Taper #15 is licensed as free software for you to use, study, modify, and share however you like.