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—deep nocturnal ruminations that may not infiltrate but tend to orbit the poem
The Soffit shades micro essays, anti-essays, ante-essays, & séances on any obsession—with thirst for thoughts on: poetics, film (horror, yes), music, consumption, history, abolition, armed diplomacy, direct democracy, labor, economics, cooperation, autonomy, translation, sexuality, art, gender, noise, critique, garbage, jazz, drugs, experimentalism, math, media, aesthetics, ecology, cologne, religion, the commons, the Undercommons, community, violence, definition, definitions of violence, punk, trucks, refusal, flora, hostility, fungus, meditation, immolation, repetition, machinery, data, anti-data-centers, carpentry, praxis, pedagogy, disobedience, shadow, architecture, space, conspiracy, resistance, study, bibliophilia, mythology, methodology, obscurity, magic, democratic multiples, and other autonomous transgressions, build-ings, & anarchic thought~
“essays” ought around 1,000 words (more is fine, less is finer) as formal or thrash as needed
.pdf or .docx
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—