Palm-Lined with Potience Elisabeth Houston is how it communicates recording—little

is how it communicates recording—little black marks we call words

Here poetry and geopolitics are inseparable twin sisters

allegorical rendering of the Islamic doctrine of Sufism - an esoteric system concerned with the search for truth through God - it describes the consequences of the conference of the birds of the world when they meet to begin the search for their ideal king

longing—it’s hard to name a subject relevant to our time that isn’t in this book

and her new book mixes short lyrics with long

Palm-Lined with Potience Elisabeth Houston is how it communicates recording—littleBasie Allen Palm Lined with Potience is New York City poet and visual artist Basie Allens debut collection of poems. Basies work is by turns political and lyrical, charting both physical and emotional landscapes, making maps of paintings and paintings of maps. While rooted in Pro Black theory, art, and precise description, Basie makes space in the ekphrastic for the eerie and abstract. The poems in this collection search for nodes of truth in a