Humans

• Jared Schickling (author)
• Elæ Moss (artist)

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Needles of Itching Feathers

Needles of Itching Feathers finds pleasure’s pulse in the precarious state of the psychological (and bodily) fascia still keeping us human. As the tissue stretches and tears, birds fly in.

About the Contributor(s)

Jared Schickling's poetry, criticism, translation, interview, review, collaboration, has been published or is forthcoming in The Argotist, BOMBAY GIN, Big Bridge, The Cafe Review, ECOPOETICS, EXQUISITE CORPSE, Interim, Jacket, Knock (2006 Ecolit/Green Art prize), Literary Imagination, Little Red Leaves, Matter Journal, Otoliths, Sous les Paves, Borderlands: The Texas Poetry Review, unarmed, Word For/Word, the anthology 1000 Views of Girl Singing, and elsewhere. He has five books — AURORA, SUBMISSIONS, O, ZERO'S BLOOMING EXCURSION, and T&U& LASH YOUR NIPPLES TO A POST HISTORY IS GORGEOUS (BlazeVOX [books] 2007, 08, 09, 10, 11) — and is an editor at Delete Press (letterpress chapbooks), Eccolinguistics (mimeo), and Reconfigurations: A Journal for Poetics and Poetry / Literature and Culture (online).

Elæ Moss is a multimodal artist-researcher, curator, designer, and educator. Seeking Speculative Solidarities, they employ analog and digital media to investigate human, institutional and ecological systems and to iterate open source strategies for ecological and social change. Recent projects have shown at La Mama Galleria, EFA Project Space, STWST/Ars Electronica, Usdan Gallery, Judson Church, the Segal Center, SOHO20, Dixon Place, and the Exponential Festival, among others. Select publications include Big Echo, Tagvverk, Vestiges, Matters of Feminist Practice, The Transgender Narratives Anthology, Choice Words: Writers on Abortion, The Brooklyn Poets Anthology, and Resist Much, Obey Little: Inaugural Poems to the Resistance. Books include Ground, Blood Altas, Overview Effect, Sweet and Low: Indefinite Singular, Bodies of Work, and The Precarity Bodyhacking Work-Book and Guide. Moss is a Professor at Pratt Institute, and the developer / founder of the Operating System + Liminal Lab. More at: https://onlywhatican.net and https://theoperatingsystem.org.