Recent poems and essays by Jeff Alessandrelli appear/are forthcoming in Witness, Denver Quarterly, The American Poetry Review and Poetry Northwest, among other journals. He's also the author of the full-length collection This Last Time Will Be The First (Burnside Review, 2014). To be released by the British collective Eyewear Publishing in the fall of 2017, Alessandrelli is currently working on a book-length essay examining and commemorating the 20th anniversary of rapper The Notorious B.I.G's death. Additionally, he also directs the vinyl record-only poetry press Fonograf Editions; in 2016 Fonograf put out albums by Eileen Myles and Rae Armantrout and in 2017 it'll put out albums by Alice Notley and Harmony Holiday. [Poetry]