Second Factory: Issue Two

Madeleine Braun

Jules Lattimer

Brett Price

Judy Annear

Emma Claire Foley

Emma Ruth Wilson

Day Heisinger-Nixon

Benjamin Bush Anderson

Frances Whorrall-Campbell

Josh Kalscheur

Nazli Koca

Kelly Clare

Justine Henry

ART, PERIODICAL, POETRY  | $5

May 2021
Read an excerpt

Lemon Work
Emma Ruth Wilson

Outside Sickness
descends on the streets
like a dozen tigers
shot dead:
Watch them loping down
to the earth

softening spring-
like with blood:

I am both
a projection
of ego
and ego
struggling
underneath
in the shade:
The half-full flights
staccato spaced
grocery lines:
A sense of place
succulent and empty:
Help the poets
They’re hurting
the poets Help
the poets

I’ve got five jobs right now /
that’s a record

Brett Price

Second Factory showcases work from a variety of poets and artists in each issue. Spotted like a bird in the wild, heard as a grinding piece of machinery, Second Factory manifests in examples: an office park of shadows; a vast and boundless shed; a grape in the risograph; a butterfly in a net.

Art by Justine Henry. Poems by Madeleine Braun, Jules Lattimer, Brett Price, Judy Annear, Emma Ruth Wilson, Brendan Lorber, Day Heisinger-Nixon, Emma Claire Foley, Benjamin Bush Anderson, Frances Whorrall-Campbell, Josh Kalscheur, Nazli Koca, and Kelly Clare.

About the Authors

Madeleine Braun, born and raised in Winnipeg, MB, is a poet now living in Brooklyn, NY. Her work has appeared in The Stockholm ReviewMatrix, Elderly Magazine, and BOMB, among other places. With Parker Menzimer she is the author of TrueBlock (2017).

Jules Lattimer‘s prose and poetry can be found in Salamander, Hobart, S/Word, and elsewhere. They’re from Richmond VA, hold an MFA from UMass Boston, and now they live in Texas. More work at juleslattimer.com.

Brett Price is the author of _Ordinary Dissonance_, which was published in 2019 by Midwestern Press. Other poems and prose can be found here found variously online and IRL. Currently, he lives with his partner and three cats in Cincinnati, OH, where he makes a living doing home renovation and building projects.

Judy Annear is a writer, researcher, and Honorary Fellow at the University of Melbourne, School of Culture and Communication. In 2019 she published a small book of experimental texts, The Ls. Her writing can be found at judyannear.com.

Emma Claire Foley‘s work has appeared in Tarpaulin Sky, Cosmonauts Avenue, N/A, and elsewhere. She lives in New York.

Emma Ruth Wilson lives in the Midwest. Her poetry can be found or is forthcoming in Critics’ Union, Echoverse, and Berkeley Poetry Review, among others.

Day Heisinger-Nixon is a nonbinary & disabled poet, essayist, interpreter, and translator. Raised in an ASL-English bilingual home in Fresno, California, Day holds an MA in Deaf Studies from Gallaudet University, and is a current MFA candidate in Creative Writing at New England College. Their work has been published or is forthcoming in Boston Review, Apogee, Booth, and elsewhere. They live in Los Angeles, and can be found online at dayheisingernixon.com and @__day_lily__.

Benjamin Bush Anderson is a poet born in Mi’kma’ki/Nova Scotia. He currently resides in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal, where he writes and pursues a living. In 2019, he won the Gabriel Safdie Award for Poetry. His poems have featured most recently in Concordia Magazine, and he has work upcoming in various publications.

Frances Whorrall-Campbell is an artist, writer, and archivist. Their writing has appeared in Art Monthly, Art-Agenda, A Queer Anthology of Wilderness (Pilot Press), and Datableed. They are the curator of Conversations Across Place, a writers’ and artists’ residency promoting queer and decolonial approaches to landscape. Their broadside, The Book of Babel, was published by Manchester-based press Death of Workers Whilst Building Skyscrapers in 2021.

Josh Kalscheur is the author of Tidal (Four Way Books). A former Halls Emerging Artist Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute of Creative Writing, his work has appeared in The Nation, Boston Review, Fence, Slate, and The Iowa Review, among others. He currently teaches writing at UW-Madison.

Nazli Koca is a writer and poet from the Mediterranean coast of Turkey. She currently lives in New York, where she’s working on her first novel. She can be found online at nazlikoca.com.

Kelly Clare is a writer and multimedia artist currently pursuing an MFA in Sculpture at the University of Iowa. Her visual and literary work appears and is forthcoming in TagvverkAPARTMENTPulpmouth, and Hobart.

Justine Henry is an interdisciplinary artist and poet based in Portland, Maine. Guided by an interest in archival material, her collage work is realized through tactile processes: touching, tearing, cutting, and gluing; fragments of discarded books and magazines rendered meticulously, manipulated, and re-contextualized to create reflections and distortions of possible worlds. Her vested interest lies in the exploration of liminal spaces, interiority, mythology, and the uncanny. She is currently working on the completion of her BFA at The University of Southern Maine.

Publication Details

Chapbook
Saddle-stitched, Self-cover. 32 pp, 5.5 x 9 in
Publication Date: May 01 2021
Distribution: Asterism Books (US)
Series: Second Factory #2