Humans
- Knar Gavin (author)
- Heidi Reszies (artist)
ISBN
978-1-946031-64-8Page count
29Keywords
Poetry, Chapbook, Nature, Natural World, Environment, Ecology, Membrane, Invertebrates, Biology, Archive, Body, ConnectionPublication date
2019Language(s)
EnglishPublication media type
Print DocumentChapbook
Publication series
Unlimited Editionsvela.
Vela. wonders about media ecologies/mediumicity, and wanders among vegetal life, fruits and animals, asking questions about entities not-just-human, and about proximity — how close is close? What vela lie beneath, or above, the variegated vellum that we are? I like to think my poems are worried about archives, too, yet capaciously so: What does the body archive? What does it send, and what does it re-seethe? What should the poem being doing about the Anthropocene, beyond re-marking it, and how can the poem engage meaningfully with other-than human intelligences and temporalities? There are these things, and then the poet shows up every now and again — I guess as a sort of rattled shy kid who nonetheless still loves the world, and never wants to stop glossing it — or trying.
About the Contributor(s)
Knar Gavin attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop and is a doctoral candidate in English at the University of Pennsylvania. Her poetry has been published or is forthcoming in AGNI, Birdfeast, Poetry, BOAAT, Caketrain, Booth, the Journal, Storm Cellar, Yemassee, Print-Oriented Bastards, Quarterly West, SoftBlow, Glittermob, Heavy Feather Review and elsewhere. She writes the occasional folk song and rides bikes with Team Laser Cats, a Philadelphia women's cycling squad. Her tumbles can be found at knargavin.tumblr.com.
Heidi Reszies is a poet and transdisciplinary artist. Her creative work embodies the quotidian as feminist practice, and seeks to enact and expand liminal spaces through text and textile.
Reszies earned an MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She is the author of the poetry collections Illusory Borders, published by The Operating System (2019), and Of Water & Other Soft Constructions, which was selected by Samiya Bashir as the winner of the 2018 Anhinga Robert Dana Prize for Poetry. She currently serves as book designer for Dream Pop Press, is the founding creator/curator of Artifact Press, and teaches at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia. See more of her work at heidireszies.com.
