Luke Munson

Luke Munson’s work appears in Arcturus and Mirage #5. He wrote and helped produce, with the LA artists’ collective Die Kränken, a video play which was in exhibition at the Univeristy of Southern California’s ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives in 2017. He has an MA in poetry from the University of California, Davis and lives in the Bay Area.

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To visit the country of shadows

Luke Munson  | 
Issue 70.2 Spring 2021

construct a mirrored cube, open at the top and 65 cubits squared. Within, assemble four glass panels at a 45° angle from the center square. Someone is at the door. Your name is on their tongue. It sounds like nothing you’ve heard before: coin for the passage. Lie down within the innermost cube […]

Peire Vidal

Luke Munson  | 
Issue 70.2 Spring 2021

Because I was in love with my city, I climbed high above it, and was small in the eye of God. I went into the body of a coyote. My throat was pulled up to the root and the sky went in. It is no lie to say I sang the world to death and […]

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Magic Spells and Mirrored Boxes

Behind The Poem | Luke Munson

Luke Munson on his poem, “To visit the country of shadows,” and his sources of linguistic inspiration.