The Operating System

Blood Atlas charts body, mind and geography across and through each other. This short collection of texts written by non-binary artist and scholar Lynne DeSilva-Johnson between 2007-2012 marks the...

Includes a conversation of Wendy Trevino with Ivy Johnson, and Lynne DeSilva-Johnson (pages 99-104).Author: Ivy JohnsonPublisher: The Operating SystemPublication Date: Jul 01, 2018Number of Pages:...

From Being Things, To Equalities In All' is a sequence of 24 couplets (1 per page), the construction of which has been guided by syntactical, semantic and graphical constraint. The results are...

Greater Grave' documents late-stage capitalism's propensity for decay in relation to the body, intimacy, and memory. The discontinuities between bodily experience, the rhetoric of self-empowerment,...

A mixed-genre collection of poems and science fiction narratives.Author: Peter Milne GreinerPublisher: The Operating SystemPublication Date: Oct 11, 2017Number of Pages: 111 pagesLanguage:...

Needles of Itching Feathers finds pleasure's pulse in the precarious state of the psychological (and bodily) fascia still keeping us human. As the tissue stretches and tears, birds fly in.Author:...

JP Howard's debut collection, Say / Mirror, is a dialogue of history and memory, reflecting on and integrating vintage photographs of her mother, Ruth King (a fairly well known African American...

SUSURROS A MI PADRE represents Erick S?nz's efforts to connect language and culture, family and loss. The book charts the author's fractured relationship with his father: a man whose Mexican blood he...

Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Women's Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. Disability Studies. Movement Studies. Dance. ?'"[I]n the slow gestures / of a person adjusting / to too much light' and with the faith...

The George Oppen Memorial BBQ' is a ritual, an invocation, a celebration, a protest. An amorphous, chimeric Promised Land where retributions are real, demagogues are punished, and freedom is a call...

In 'The grass is greener when the sun is yellow, ' poets Sarah Rosenthal and Valerie Witte engage with the work of dancer-choreographers Simone Forti and Yvonne Rainer. Rosenthal and Witte use...

Filip Marinovich is one of my favorite living poets! He has lived his poems for many years now and we can trust he means it when he says, 'the tree's boyfriend is me / trim the pubes / and get ready...

Vela.' wonders about media ecologies/mediumicity, and wanders among vegetal life, fruits and animals, asking questions about entities not-just-human, and about proximity -- how close is close? What...

These companionable, searching, smart, smart-ass diary-poems-one per week of pregnancy-talk their human into the baby moving through her into love, racism, climate change, kitties who turn into...

We, the Monstrous: Script for an Unrealizable Film' explores the effects and consequences individual actions can have in a world gone wrong- a world very much resembling our own. Part absurdist...

[?] A Phantom Zero' is an 8-part piece inspired by 'the Drake Equation'. Ryu Ando's writing has appeared in Strange Horizons, Pidgeonholes, Liquid Imagination, and other venues. His first book of...