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.
In addition to journal and ephemera pieces, Jared Schickling is the author of several BlazeVOX books, including the trilogy The Pink + ATBOALGFPOPASASBIFL + Two Books on the Gas: Above the Shale and Achieved by Kissing (2013-15) and Province of Numb Errs (2016), as well as The Paranoid Reader: Essays, 2006-2012 (Furniture Press, 2014), the chapbook Prospectus for a Stage (LRL Textile Series, 2014) and two Trump Locofo chaps (2017). Forthcoming projects with BlazeVOX include The Mercury Poem and an edited volume, A Lyrebird: The Selected Poems of Michael Farrell. He edits Delete Pressand The Mute Canary, publishers of poetry.