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BK Fischer

BK Fischer

BK Fischer is the author of three books of poetry, Radioapocrypha (Mad Creek, 2018), St. Rage’s Vault (The Word Works, 2013), and Mutiny Gallery (Truman State, 2011), and a critical study, Museum Mediations: Reframing Ekphrasis in Contemporary American Poetry (Routledge, 2006). My Lover’s Discourse, a remix of Roland Barthes, is forthcoming from Tinderbox Editions this fall. Her poems and reviews have appeared in Paris Review, Jacket2, Boston Review, FIELD, WSQ, Ninth Letter, Blackbird, Modern Language Studies and elsewhere. She teaches in the School of the Arts at Columbia University and Taconic Prison in Bedford Hills, New York.

Nature's Nature

May/June 2017

Plasticity

By BK Fischer

1 The lie takes the shape of its container—the news arrives that you’re not dying,benign finding, the cannula withdrawn with aspirated cells that show no errant urge, inert as the […]