“Flights of Gravity”, originally intended to be a section of a senior project at Bard College, is now an autonomous selection of nine line poem “flights” closed off by two longer counterparts. They will continue to live, hover, and dive as they must.
About this “Book” What you are about to read (or are considering reading, or have accidentally begun to read) is a collection of poems composed between 2012 and 2014. “UNTOLD,” “the mouth sounds such hauntings,” and “Windoor” were all written for reading experiences designed for Brown University’s immersive, virtual reality CAVE environment and have been… Read more »
P(UR)E IM(MAN)ENCE is a numbered list of 29 poems following a formal constraint: each poem is two lines, with the first line running to the end of the page and the second line shorter than the first. The poems think through language, desire, materiality, technology, and embodiment. They are part sex dream, part Deleuze puns,… Read more »
Jess Bergman is a student of English and Creative Writing at Penn. She is new to poetry (but not the internet).
Jose Escabi is currently finishing his B.A. in English at the University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez. He has had his poetry published in the student-run magazine [Id]entidad. He aspires to continue his education all the way to the doctoral level and eventually become a professor. He wants to get people riled up about literature and… Read more »
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Dylan Hansen-Fliedner is a Philadelphia based filmmaker and poet. He has published three books of poetry, including correspondence (2012)—advised by Kenneth Goldsmith; as well as Linger In Heat (2013) and P(auto)COET (2013, with Jay Jadick), both advised by Charles Bernstein. He is the co-director/co-editor/co-cinematographer/co-writer of Driving Not Knowing, a forthcoming feature film and the co-founder… Read more »
Dane Mainella is an actor, filmmaker, and poet living in Philadelphia. His first book, Desire (2012) is a transcription of every desire experienced over the course of a day. Mainella has also written for the poetry and poetics section of The Volta and is the co-founder of the web-based poetry and poetics collective, d^a^t^a press…. Read more »
Matthew Claudel studied architecture at Yale and has presented at TEDx, designed and authored several books, designed buildings in Tokyo and St. Kitts, and built furniture. His work has been published in the Architectural Review, the Yale Retrospecta, Architectural Design, Il Sole 24 Ore, The European, Aspenia, and Fritz Hansen, among others, and featured in exhibitions at… Read more »
Kathleen Ottinger was born in Mineola, NY in 1991. She considers herself an “author-artist,” as she maintains both a writing practice and a visual arts practice. Her work often investigates the relationship between text and image, memory and its fallibility, and how physical beings find meaning in a world that has become increasingly digital. In 2014, she… Read more »