GARLAND Issue 4

Guest editor: Connor Frew

Call: the body and body and body is a call to look at the body and its edges, refuse, differences, expansions, failures, and transformations as poetic tools. Language is the material of the commons, erupting from the body to create visual, spatial, and sonic disturbance; building our communities and publics and filling them with life. Right now the fascist allergy to life feels acutely and disgustingly present, and the ruling class is growing more emboldened to weaponize the state's instruments of violence to shrink the horizon of what is possible. Fascists understand the body as a powerful engine of subjectivity, and poetry and language as the sinew which binds together our social space, which is why they police them both with such ferocity.

For this issue of GARLAND, I am looking for work which might approach the body from the *outside* (the subjectivities which make the quilted collective, are responsible for the production of meaningful life, which chafe against structures of power and push the limits of what is possible) or the *inside* (cities-unto-themselves, organs and waste and cells and failures and wetness and strangeness, infinitely-dense and unpredictable and errant and beautiful). I am looking for text, image, or both. Poetry, prose, expulsions or rants or manifestos or notes or strategies or conversations; photos, collages, screenshots, drawings, relics, records, scans.

GARLAND Issue 4 features work by S.  Amar, Eden Chicken, Theodor Conwell, Bobby Coyote, Corrina Delgado, David Eileen, Farrah Fang, Xin Fu, Reyzl Grace, Joseph Hamilton, Kath Healing, Flossie Hedges, kailyn e’lonie september hill, Emily Hollander, eri lucia kapling, Lohitha Kethu, Sarah Klein, Beau Maibaum, Lillian McKenzie, Charlie Pecorella, CJ Peradilla, Jaime Rodriguez, Davi Schweizer, Kit Siskin, Sarah Sorensen, Dylan Tulk, and Jess Wright.