Joseph Spece

Joseph Spece is founding editor at FATHOMBOOKS and co-directs The FATHOMSCHOOL with Eric Westerlind. His books are BAD ZOO (FATHOM, 2018) and Roads (Cherry Grove, 2013).

Articles by Joseph Spece:


Nextsharks

in Issue 81 | Buildings (Dec 2017)

We Queers - copper charm - a freak shark - at Garden’s blueblack teat

Cinnamon the Hunter

in Issue 75 | Imaginary Friends (May 2017)

after mackerel - blind. Black - head in my beard and I - lime every - whitebelly - brought me a - artery - once more

Girl

in Issue 59 | Taxonomy (Dec 2015)

So! This is New York - with sterling thoughts in him - dipping its tines in bright paint - sketching and sketching again - frill themselves - upsetting the vials of sperm - and my little dress would be quite dry was it me - was it me, ponderous, hot, leaking the acid spittle - knock at my nest now

the militant queer goes a-walking

in Issue 54 | Degenerates and Decadents (Jul 2015)

O there is much to be disgusted by on the streets - searing love, solemn love that cuts the night into awful stone limbs, never marriage - grease gathers to a pool in the saucer - but then who would triumphant Moby be? - commerce, propriety, commerce, cosmetic beauty - curious, true attention