Grace Lavery makes sure to record the feelings of different kinds of facts in a piece inspired by Kafka’s short story, “Eleven Sons.” This chronicle of eleven species of fact, complete with their blindspots, crotchets, and quiddities, takes us through the psychogeographical territory of our relationship to the factual, which is often a form of desire.

In her palinode–a poetic form of retraction–Donika Kelly contemplates the hybridity of memory and correction’s possibilities and foreclosures. The metaphor that does the heavy lifting in this poem is the centaur: half horse, half human, a creature of bodily hungers demanding satisfaction and slant longings for wisdom.

In conversation, Greg Newton and Deborah Edel discuss the archives and spaces that facilitate queer knowledge-making.