soffit: the brow of a house—underside of the overhang, inferring rafters at the roof’s edge, from where the rain drips ,
Soffit Pamphlet Series wants that part—underneath the overhang
the undercurrents of one’s typical poetic domain, below the dwelling, what drips
off—nocturnal ruminations that may not infiltrate but tend to orbit the poem
The Soffit craves in shade the micro essay, anti-essay, ante-essay, & séance on any obsession—with thirst for thoughts on: poetics, film (horror, yes), music, consumption, composition, history, abolition, armed diplomacy, necromancy, direct democracy, labor, economics, cooperation, autonomy, translation, erotics, art, Gertrude Stein, gender, noise, occult, critique, garbage, drugs, jazz, math, experimentalism, media, aesthetics, Anthony Braxton, the south, ecology, cologne, religion, the commons, the Undercommons, community, violence, definition, definitions of violence, punk, trucks, refusal, flora, engines, tradition, Tom Dent, autodidactism, hostility, microbiome, mycelium, mimesis, interstellar movement, meditation, immolation, repetition, disruption, machinery, data, anti-data-centers, A(nt)I, carpentry, praxis, print matter, dark matter, shadow, civil disobedience, Sylvia Wynter, bibliophilia, space, architectonics, neuroscience, conspiracy, resistance, study, Atahualpa Yupanqui, mythology, methodology, ontology, obscurity, magic, and other autonomous transgressions, build-ings, & anarchic thought~
“essays” ought between 800 - 2,000 words (more is fine, less is finer) as formal or thrash as needed
.pdf or .docx
as & in the spirit of the democratic multiple, selected essays will be printed cheaply and distributed so.
author will receive 25 copies as compensation
a reading “fee” (aka: donation to the press that helps us eat & print) is encouraged, whatever yr able—