by Sparrow Born on the edge of Amsterdam, bart plantenga has lived in many places, including New York City and Paris. Though he has been writing lists since the age of nine he began writing other creative work in high school, and he has since published novels, poetry, short stories, essays (hotheaded and otherwise), and […]

by bart plantenga “How, as a human being, does one face infinity? How does one attempt to grasp the incomprehensible? Through lists.” -Umberto Eco “I perceive value, I confer value, I create value . . . hence, my compulsion to make lists.” -Susan Sontag Lists are not poems, especially when you begin calling them “poems.” […]

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