“Tear” from The Animal of Existence (Black Square Editions, 2022) by Jared Daniel Fagen. Reprinted with permission of the publisher.
Jared Daniel Fagen is the author of The Animal of Existence (Black Square Editions, 2022). His prose poems, essays, and conversations have appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, Fence, Lana Turner, and Asymptote, among other publications. He is the editor and publisher of Black Sun Lit, a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at the CUNY Graduate Center, and an adjunct lecturer at the City College of New York. Born in Jeollanam-do, South Korea, he lives in Brooklyn and the western Catskills.
Madeleine Braun (b. 1989 in Winnipeg, MB) is a painter and poet living in Brooklyn, NY. Her poetry has appeared in Second Factory, The Stockholm Review, Matrix, Elderly Magazine, and BOMB, among other places. With Parker Menzimer she is the author of TrueBlock (2017). Her first book of poetry Lethe was published by 1080Press in 2022.