J/E

Channelings: poems and poetic forays

I often forget what poetry is for and remember that we need it by making it. A poem, as I practice poetry, is a written, stitched, intermingled, or otherwise arranged object created to invite pause and reflection and offer an enthusiastic refusal to the ways language participates in colonization, oppression, and carceral structures.

I make poems from invented and inherited language, cut-up newspapers and other political detritus, embroidery and hand-sewn collages, notes on precarious objects and experiences, and the spaces between people and languages.