Good news! After Zach's heroic efforts to get everything going, we're proud to announce:

Octopus #4 is here!

Poets like Sarah Manguso, Dale Smith, Aase Berg, Donald Revell, GC Waldrep, Barbara Guest, Brian Henry, Gabriel Gudding, Kevin A. Gonzalez, Seth Parker, Nick Twemlow, Pasha Malla, Kirsten Kaschock, Anthony Robinson, Johannes Goransson, Aaron Kunin, Matthew Shindell, Allan Peterson, Brandon Downing, Cyrus Console, Andrea Baker, Hope J. Smith, Clayton Eshleman, Kevin Fitzgerald, Emily Rosko, Michael Ives, Eugene Ostashevsky, Dan Kaplan, Thibault Raoult, Daniel Borzutzky, and Standard Schaefer.

It has reviews, interviews, essays and another recovery project by the Octopus editors.

Here are the details:

4 Reviews: Marcus Slease on Jon Thompson’s Book of the Floating World; Craig Morgan Teicher on Srikanth Reddy’s Facts for Visitors, Kevin Fitzgerald on David Miller’s Waters of Marah, and Zachary Schomburg on Charlie Foos’ Bending Spoons.

2 Interviews: Poems-for-All’s Richard Hansen and Flashpoint’s Bradford Haas

3 Essays: John Lowther on Jack Spicer; Jeff Encke on Linda Bierds; and Henry Gould on literary time.

The Recovery Project recovers Suzanne Gardinier and Paul Mann.

Yrs,
Zachary Schomburg and Tony Tost, co-editors
Denny Schmickle, design


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This is my last issue as a co-editor (not counting the inevitable reunion issue), & I think it's a great one to bow out on. Props go to Zach who single-handedly did almost all the copyediting, proofing, web work and correspondence to make the issue happen.