I wrote this originally because Bill Shulz asked me to write something for a journal called Something on Paper. The topic was "Imagining Survival, Reckoning with Extinction: Poetics and Politics in the Capitalocene." Some of the language comes from the Encyclopedia of Modern Coral Reefs, edited by David Hopley. I drew mainly from the chapter on "Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands."
Juliana Spahr on "coral, again" |
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"Hua Xi on Multidimensional Poetry: An Interview"
"It doesn’t matter that it isn’t on the page, if it’s projected against a wall or painted into a poster or played aloud as an audio installation — language can still be deeply emotionally resonant no matter what form it’s delivered in. I started to look into visual artists who incorporate text into their work and found that there are many, even many who consider themselves to be poets, but this type of text-based art is hardly ever studied in traditional poetry classrooms."
via POETS HOUSE |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Kai Ihns on Building Community
"I think this dispersed but somehow coherent ‘I’ that exists in relation and as a problem of negotiating how one is oriented… I’m interested in this because I do feel like it’s a way poetry can process its world, in this case a world that requires complex negotiations of… realities, and the selves that can exist in them. You have to actively negotiate what you think the ground is, all the time… and that partially determines how you can be in relation." |
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