We Are Champion Issue 2 is live, featuring new work by Jimmy Chen, Chris Oklum, Mike Young, Ben Mirov, Joseph Goosey, Tyler Flynn Dorholt, Miguel Morales, Mark Leidner, Reynard Seifert, and an interview with Ben Marcus about his forthcoming Flame Alphabet, who says, “I do this for myself, for my own standards, because I don’t know how to do it for anyone else. I’m the only reader whose thoughts I have deep access to. It would all be guesswork to do this for someone else, to address someone else’s standards.”

The Hypothetical Library invents new books by well-known authors.

I’ve been guest editing Adam’s Everyday Genius this month. Today is Sean Kilpatrick’s poem ‘fistfucking rules’ which again reiterates why he is one of the realest mothers in this. Also this month new work from Laura Carter, Mark Leidner, Rav Grewal-Kök, Kimberly King Parsons, Robert Kloss, Donora Hillard, Travis Nichols, Kevin O’Cuinn, Cameron Pierce, Kate Zambreno, and Amy McDaniel, and the month is only halfsies. Hit it, please!

Wish I read French so I could buy these books, even if I already have some of them in English: éditions è®e. Also, been thinking about the act of translating, and how much one might do without a speaking knowledge of the language: how effective could you be just using sound and dictionaries and ideas?

29 Mini Essays by Joe Brainard [Thanks to Mike Topp for the heads up]

GIRL SCOUTS

Girl Scouts is more than selling cookies.

Brian Oliu liveblogged AWP. It’s pretty sexy. Here’s how he breaks down the color coding of the ID lanyards:

Green: you & me
Red: the hierarchy
Blue: the Gestapo
Gold: the 1993 Denver Nuggets minus LaPhonso Ellis
Black: kittens
Purple: Colorado-based piano rock group The Fray
Leopard Print: People who have seen the movie ‘Cop and a Half’