BAX 2015

BAX 2015 is the second volume of an annual literary anthology compiling the best experimental writing in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. This year's volume, guest edited by Douglas Kearney, features seventy-five works by some of the most exciting American poets and writers today, including established authors-like Dodie Bellamy, Anselm Berrigan, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Cathy Park Hong, Bhanu Kapil, Aaron Kunin, Joyelle McSweeney, and Fred Moten-as well as emerging voices. Best American Experimental Writing is also an important literary anthology for classroom settings, as individual selections are intended to provoke lively conversation and debate. The series coeditors are Seth Abramson and Jesse Damiani.

Guest Editor's Introduction, Douglas KearneySeries Editors' Introduction, Seth Abramson and Jesse DamianiWill Alexander, To electrify the abyss from The General Scatterings and CommentSteven Alvarez, tape 3Emily Anderson, from "Three Little Novels"Aaron Apps, The Formation of This Grotesque Fatty FigureDodie Bellamy, Cunt Wordsworth from Cunt NortonAnselm Berrigan, rectangle 71Jeremy Blachman, Rejected Submissions to "The Complete Baby Name Wizard"Shane Book, Mack Daddy ManifestoCM Burroughs, Body as a Juncture of AlmostRachel Cantor, Everyone's a PoetXavier Cavazos, Sanford, FloridaChing-in Chen, bhanu feeds soham a concessionCody-Rose Clevidence, [X Y L O]Cecilia Corrigan, from TitanicSantino Dela, This is How I Will Sell More Poetry Than Any Poet in the History of the Poetry - Twitter Feed (The YOLO Pages)Darcie Dennigan, The AmbidextrousSteven Dickison, from Liberation Music OrchestraKelly Dulaney, Incisor / CanineAndrew Durbin, from You Are My DucatiThomas Sayers Ellis, Conspiracy Smile [A Poet's Guide to the Assassination of JFK and the Assassination of Poetry]Bryce Emley, The Panthera tigrisAdam Fitzgerald, "Time After Time"Sesshu Foster, Movie Version: "Hell to Eternity"C. S. Giscombe, 4 and 5 from "Early Evening"Renee Gladman, Number Two of the Eleven CalamitiesMaggie Glover and Isaac Pressnell, Email Exchange - Like a Flock of Tiny BirdsAlexis Pauline Gumbs, "Black Studies" and all its childrenElizabeth Hall, from "I Have Devoted My Life to the Clitoris: A History of Small Things"Brecken Hancock, The Art of PlumbingDuriel E. Harris, Simulacra: American Counting RhymeRoberto Harrison, email personasLilly Hoang and Carmen Giménez-Smith, from HummeltopiaCathy Park Hong, Trouble in MindJill Jichetti, [Jill Writes...]Aisha Sasha John, I didn't want to go so I didn't go.Blair Johnson, The overlap of three translations of Kafka's "Imperial Message" - I consider writing (a love poem)Janine Joseph, Between Chou and the ButterflyBhanu Kapil, Monster ChecklistRuth Ellen Kocher, Insomnia Cycle 44Aaron Kunin, from "An Essay on Tickling"David Lau, In the Lower World's Tiniest GrainsSophia Le Fraga, from I RL, YOU RLSueyeun Juliette Lee, [G calls] from Juliette and the BoysAmy Lorraine Long, Product WarningDawn Lundy Martin, Mo[dern] [Frame] or a Philosophical Treatise on What Remains between History and the Living Breathing Black Human FemaleJoyelle McSweeney, "Trial of MUSE" (from Dead Youth, or, The Leaks)Holly Melgard, Alienated LaborTyler Mills, H-Bombelena minor, rrs feedNick Montfort, Through the ParkFred Moten, harriot + harriott + sound +Daniel Nadler, from The "Lacunae"Sunny Nagra, The Old Man and the Peach TreeKelly Nelson, InklingMendi + Keith Obadike, The Wash HouseLance Olsen, dreamlives of debris: an excerptKiki Petrosino, Doubloon OathJessy Randall, Museum Maps - DominoesJacob Reber, Deep Sea Divers and Whaleboats - Camera and KnifeJ D Scott, CanticaEvie Shockley, fukushima bluesBalthazar Simões, [Dear Emiel]giovanni singleton, illustrated equation no. 1Brian Kim Stefans, from "Mediation in Steam"Nat Sufrin, Now, Now Rahm EmmanuelVincent Toro, MicroGod Schism Song - Binary Fusion Crab CanonRodrigo Toscano, from Explosion Rocks SpringfieldTom Trudgeon, Part 2/21/6 from Study for 14 Pieces for Charles CurtisSarah Vap, [13 untitled poems]Divya Victor, Color: A Sequence of Unbearable HappeningsKim Vodicka, U n i s e x O n e - S e a t e rCatherine Wagner, NoticeTyrone Williams, Coterie ChairRonaldo V. Wilson, Lucy, FinallySteven Zultanski, from BriberyAaron Apps, "You are only a part of yourself, collected in tangles"Matthew Burnside, In Search of: Sandbox NovelAlejandro Miguel Justino Crawford, EgressLawrence Giffin, from Non Facit SaltusTracy Gregory, For MercyTina Hyland, Google the FutureKaie Kellough, creole continuum - d-o-y-o-u-r-e-a-d-m-eJoseph Mosconi, from Demon Miso/Fashion in ChildDustin Luke Nelson, [Everything That Is Serious Can Have a Filter]Jeffrey Pethybridge, Found Poem Including HistoryAcknowledgmentsContributors