The Anti- Feed

ISSN: 1938-226X

Anti- is not aesthetically affiliated with Nicanor Parra’s school of antipoetry, though the editor does think more poets ought to heed Parra’s advice that “You have to improve the blank page.” Anti- is contrarian, a devil’s advocate that primarily stands against the confinement of poetry in too-small boxes. Anti- wants to provide a single arena for a wide range of styles and ideas, so these different kinds of poets and poems can either fight it out or learn to coexist. We want to be a venue where voices from the margin can be heard next to more established ones. We’re also interested in work that blurs boundaries: between verse and prose, traditional and cutting edge, metrical and free, humorous and scary, narrative and lyric and linguistically fragmented.

Anti- publishes both “issues” and “featured poets.” Issues will contain writing by multiple poets, will appear at least twice a year at possibly irregular intervals, and will stay on the main page for at least a month. Featured poets will stand alone on the main page for (typically) two weeks. All authors will remain available in the archive.

Anti- Staff

Editor: Steven D. Schroeder
Assistant Editor / Digital, Visual, & Sound Poetry: A. J. Patrick Liszkiewicz
Assistant Editors: Kristin Sumner, Brent Goodman, Aaron Anstett, Jill Alexander Essbaum, D. Antwan Stewart, Suzanne Frischkorn, Hannah Craig
Initial Web Design & Development: A. D. Thomas

Contact: antipoetry@anti-poetry.com

Steven D. Schroeder’s first full-length book of poems, Torched Verse Ends, was published by BlazeVOX [books] in 2009. His poetry is available or forthcoming from New England Review, Pleiades, The Journal, Indiana Review, and Verse Daily. He works as a Certified Professional Résumé Writer.

A. J. Patrick Liszkiewicz lives in Buffalo, NY, where he is an MFA student in Media Arts Production at the University at Buffalo. His poems appear or are forthcoming in Cranky, The Eleventh Muse, The New Hampshire Review, Word For/Word, and the Zaoem Festival of Contemporary Poetry in Ghent, Belgium.

Kristin Sumner swims in a pool of writing, editing, illustration, and associated industries. Her recent work can be found in Kiss Machine and MARGIE. When not prowling the dark, mean streets of Winnipeg, Kristin teaches Icelandic, edits Unloved Mail-Order Bride, and works on an assortment of mystery projects.

Brent Goodman has worked as a teacher, freelance writer, and musician. His poetry is recently featured in diode, Rattle, Court Green, DIAGRAM, Poetry, SOFTBLOW, Zone 3, No Tell Motel, Knockout, and Barn Owl Review. His first full-length collection, The Brother Swimming Beneath Me, is out from Black Lawrence Press.

Aaron Anstett’s collections, in order of minuscule to tiny sales, are Sustenance, No Accident, and Each Place the Body’s. He lives in Colorado with his wife and children. Despite himself, he was recently selected to be the first Pikes Peak Poet Laureate.

Jill Alexander Essbaum is, most recently, the author of The Devastation (Cooper Dillon Books), Harlot (No Tell Books), and Necropolis (neoNuma Arts). She splits her time between the US and Switzerland.

D. Antwan Stewart took his MFA at the Michener Center for Writers. He is author of two poetry collections, The Terribly Beautiful (2006) and Sotto Voce (2008), both Editor’s Choice Selections in the Main Street Rag Poetry Chapbook Series. Recent poems appear in Callaloo, Many Mountains Moving, and Meridian.

Suzanne Frischkorn is the author of Girl on a Bridge (2010) and Lit Windowpane (2008), both from Main Street Rag Publishing. In addition, she is the author of five chapbooks, most recently American Flamingo (2008).

Hannah Craig lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with her husband and daughter. Her work has appeared in journals such as Smartish Pace, Fence, Post Road, 32 Poems, and Northwest Review.