A Train Through the South

Open Arts Press is pleased to announce the publication of Daniel J. Flore III's new poetry collection, A Tub, a Cigarette, a Blank Stare: Selected Poems. Flore’s poems move through the strange, funny, damaged, and sometimes unexpectedly beautiful corners of ordinary life: parking lots, hospital rooms, cigarettes, cheap rooms, family memories, sex, illness, loneliness, prayer,…

One of the things I have tried to preserve at Open Arts Forum is a certain kind of space. By that I mean a space in which the work itself remains central: the poem, the story, the photograph, the painting, the piece of music, the essay. That may sound simple, but it is not always…

Artificial intelligence can now produce creative work that is, at the very least, as compelling as much of what human beings produce. Let me give an example. Suppose someone submitted the following concrete poem, titled "boots on the ground," to Open Arts Forum: boots on the ground mo boots on the ground ther fa boots…