Tom Sleigh combines stagecraft, Conrad, family, nukes, colonialism, mythology, and more in a poem both intensely personal and astonishingly vast. First time online! 6/29/09

The adventures of L. M. Fish stretch across nearly a half-century of American history in a sequence that Tom Sleigh has praised as “an uncommonly intelligent, passionate, and tactile event.” By M. Reed Corey New! 6/29/09

Brenda Hillman’s tour of California’s rivers invokes the future of poetry; addresses the likes of Wallace Stevens, Joni Mitchell and “crazy brenda”; and leads to a prayer that borrows from present joys.

A memoir of childhood summers spent in small-town Missouri, in a grandfather’s mysterious salvage yard — and of the surprising ways memory itself is an ongoing reclamation project. By Andrew Wingfield.

Magoo and Audrey work together at the Hawaii Center for Tourism and Culture. When Magoo sets himself on fire, his death is just his first big surprise. By Lance Uyeda.

A Mexican musician travels to America to look for the wife he lost years ago. From Michael Jayme-Becerra, author of the short story collection Every Night Is Ladies’ Night.

Tortoise beat-maker, producer and multi-instrumentalist John McEntire talks to At Length about the band’s eclectic new record and his work recording the forthcoming Broken Social Scene album.

César Alvarez of Brooklyn band The Lisps provides a preview of their new steampunk indie-rock musical, Futurity, and chats with us about the joys and pains of creating in the space between two genres.