They Plan the Future with Their Eyes Rolled Back

As usual but notably, we're ending some things and beginning some things. We're at the end of our teens; next issue is the big two-oh. And it will be bigger: Issue 20 is already packed with extra poetry, flash fiction, everything. You'll also get to see it as the current issue for a little longer than usual while we work on Bowietry (submissions still open) to debut in January.

Also ending with this issue: an era. The Wurster interview you're about to read is the last in our series; we've reached present day. If you want to see what Pittsburgh Poetry Exchange is doing now (and you find yourself in the Pittsburgh area), come to an open workshop at the Brentwood Library. Workshops happen on the first Monday of every month at 7 p.m.

At brunch recently, Wurster seemed disappointed that no one had written in to point out a horrible slight or major inaccuracy. I assured him that if anyone does, I will reprint the email in full for the sake of controversy. It was weird not to be writing everything he said in a notebook. I'm sure in the future we'll feature Wurster interviews about topics that aren't directly related to the history of Pittsburgh poetry. Got an interview you want to publish? Pitch it to us. It needn't have anything to do with Pittsburgh or poetry.

See you in October — but before we get ahead of ourselves, enjoy this mixtape of several weirdly overlapping theme pockets in poetry and flash fiction as well as art by Katie Ford and another mysteriously hilarious / hilariously mysterious installment of "London Fog" by Dean Focareta.