Statement

My work explores gender, nature, interspecies friendships and relationships, power dynamics, the wonderful, and the mundane. Most of my creative research has been in the areas of emancipatory social projects, feminist poetics, creating new resources in literary interventions against state violence and war, and visual/digital/intermedia poetry. I am invested in pursuing an activist poetics that is deeply engaged with linking the political project of community building with an experimental engagement with expressive language. I’m attracted to liveliness, experiments in syntax and form, writing that engages visual and spatial elements, and politically motivated writing. I am also is interested in presenting text as multi-dimensional, plastic, playful, concrete, mutable, improvised, cooperative, collaborative, and interactive. More than anything, I am motivated by the brilliance and munificence of my peers, and by the writing and art of those who seek to create community and political change through radical critique, innovation, activism, generosity, and optimism.

Daphnomancy Chapbook

published by Peter Ganick's Small Chapbook Project

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die*o*rama mosaic

1. where kiss did man, 2. does and ram, 3. which hard thing held, 4. a dirty young came, 5. how hate got hand, 6. but on this beast, 7. as from a wife, 8. a lap for work, 9. our clean heart, 10. time love some hand, 11. which things could she use, 12. its fast baby, 13. down with my soft part, 14. down my soft part, 15. sometime at wife, 16. small like hate, 17. young heart like hate, 18. young part gave start, 19. young taste fly like love, 20. let young, 21. bare thing your time, 22. bare thing, 23. gave start, 24. now lady, 25. young part, 26. held saw felt, 27. held saw felt, 28. her them us, 29. stop love hate, 30. saw made took

Psychedelic Domestic

1. bedmaker, 2. text and bridle, 3. pony, 4. stepstool, 5. badluck, 6. hem, 7. pill, 8. tablet of grief, 9. stop details, 10. iron on, 11. scissor, 12. cup of tea for you and me

video poems

Feral Thing

cover design by Maureen Thorson
tinyside now available from Big*Game*Books

areas of inquiry and curiosity

alphabets
animals
etymology
improvisation
the occult
reliquaries
nesting
poltergeists
anglo-saxon literature
feminism
collage/layers
wonder cabinets
gestation, lactation, and reproduction
Text, letters
textile arts
the history of the book
the invisible
melos
debris

Contact

femmeferal at gmail dot com