Samantha Giles grew up in an industrial section of Santa Monica, California and currently lives in the flatlands of Oakland, CA. She is the author of hurdis addo (Displaced Press, 2011) and deadfalls and snares (Futurepoem, 2014). Since 2009, she has been the Director of Small Press Traffic.

Steven Seidenberg is the author of Itch, a work of lyric, philosophical prose (RAW ArT PRESS, 2014), and three chapbooks of poetry, including Songs of Surrender (Gummi-Geliebter Verlag, 2013), and Null Set (Spooky Actions, 2014). Based in San Francisco, he is a member of the Right Window artists collective and co-editor of the poetry journal pallaksch.pallaksch.

Immanence will not be named.

The stain against our wilderness,

our animal pride,

is named our animality,

from fatted pincers proffering

each blink its creed of hunt and glimpse,

each trill of pilfered dissonance

obtruded into rhyme.

There, as if another sun

will parse our null illumined,

we imagine that our focus

will traduce the bed of nettles

that our further sight has gathered

as the stuff of things.

Immanence has named you,

but you will not attend it

while you still possess a name.

This: the feral gambol of your

hollows into ferment.

You: the torpid spasm

that consolidates the void--