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2023 | The Word Shelter
Thanks to Pippi and Xander for inviting me to write poems for the Wedding Cake House’s Word Shelter from November 15-December 31. I wanted to write poems connected by a theme. I made these out of the names of Rhode Island’s oldest flora. I love the way that, when you read the poems aloud, the combinations of plant names all sound a bit like witches’ spells.
2021 | “ANTHEM”
“ANTHEM” started as a long poem in 2019. During 2020’s Covid lockdowns, I began to experiment with translating my poems into videos, to personalize, preserve, and distribute the experience of giving and watching a poetry reading. This is the first draft of the first one. I’m grateful to Mary-Kim Arnold at Tupelo Quarterly for publishing “ANTHEM” in 2021.
2021 | “BUDDY”
Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive’s online series “From Collective Isolation” features “some of our favorite poets” reading work that addresses the Covid-19 pandemic and social isolation. I read my poem “BUDDY” in this video.
2021 | “STORY OF THE ROSE”
“STORY OF THE ROSE” is about Jay DeFeo’s painting, The Rose. It mixes lyric poetry with art historical data. Published by Canarium Books in The Canary #7.
2020 | “Nothing, Then Something, Then Nothing: Norma Cole and Sara Wintz in Correspondence”
Read my correspondence with Norma Cole at Open Space.
2020 | “All My Kevins”
“All My Kevins” is an essay that I wrote in memory of Kevin Killian for the Poetry Foundation’s Open Door series.
2019 | “A Western”
A long poem about wildfires in California, the Ghost Ship fire in Oakland, and other forms of collapse at Social Text.
2019 | Contributions to JSTOR Daily
“How ‘Measured Militancy’ Empowered California’s Fieldworkers” and “When Victorian Scientists Caught Ballomania”
2018-PRESENT | Interviews for The Creative Independent
William Winant, Emma Ramadan, Guillermo E. Brown, Ekrem Serdar, Grace Rosario Perkins, Ephraim Asili, Shey Rivera Ríos, Lavender Suarez, Bob Glück, Beth Pickens, and Geeta Dayal
2013-2021 - Interviews for the Poetry Foundation’s Open Door
Read my interview with Francis Lo (pictured left) “24/7 Gender is Hard: Cheena Marie Lo on the Poetics of Both and Neither” as well as interviews with other luminaries like Zoe Tuck, Marianne Morris, and Dodie Bellamy.
2018-PRESENT | ART PAPERS Interviews
Conversations about the impossibility of neutrality with Carin Kuoni and Laura Raicovich and whitewashing of diasporic artists’ contributions in their own historic neighborhoods with Gilda Davidian, Meldia Yesayan, and Mashinka Firunts Hakopian.
2012 | The Feeling is Mutual: A List of Our Fucking Demands
I edited The Feeling is Mutual: A List of Our Fucking Demands in 2012. All proceeds continue to benefit San Francisco literary arts organization Small Press Traffic.
2012 | WALKING ACROSS A FIELD WE ARE FOCUSED ON AT THIS TIME NOW
My first book (with cover art by Caitlin Keogh), WALKING ACROSS A FIELD WE ARE FOCUSED ON AT THIS TIME NOW (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2012) - a long poem about the twentieth century expressed through a blend of lyric poetry (personal experience) and Wikipedia searches (public data).