“Ask Me How it Happened” – Embodied Poem (excerpts)
Each line of the poem was written on portions of my body, mapping the origins of scars, photographed, and then worn throughout the day as I made my way through the city.
Project Type: Visual Poetics
“Longhouse” – concrete poem installation
A calligrammatic poem using the concept of contour drawing (one continuous line where the pencil does not lift off the page until the drawing is complete), concrete poetry, and anaphora (“we build it, we build the longhouse, we build the longhouse as our ancestors have done”) as means of place-making. The central fire of the
“McKenzie River Ranger District”
a Google Maps poem
“810 Road”
“virtual reality” poem
“He Is Of It” – Treated Book (Longfellow’s Hiawatha)
I’ve been at work on a treated book-length copy of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s Hiawatha. Hiawatha was a story I read as a child (an updated illustrated version in my mother’s home). The story of Hiawatha is Iroquoian, but many of the images and ideas drawn upon by Longfellow were of Anishinaabe cultures. So I’m revisiting the book
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