“the familiar identity of things has to be pulverized” –– Rothko

“poor Orpheus holds air only, slippery” –– Ovid, Metamorphoses

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lines in these poems correspond to Rothko paintings
and form part of a project to re-filter myth and the art canon
though an alternate lens

Meredith Stricker is a visual artist and poet working in cross-genre media. She is the author of Our Animal, Omnidawn Open Book Prize; Tenderness Shore which received the National Poetry Series Award; Alphabet Theater, mixed-media performance poetry from Wesleyan University Press; Mistake, Caketrain Chapbook Award and Anemochore selected for the Gloria Anzaldúa chapbook prize, Newfound Press. Her work will appear in the 2019 Best American Experimental Writing anthology from Wesleyan.

She co-directs visual poetry studio, a collaborative that focuses on architecture in Big Sur, California and projects to bring together artists, writers, musicians and experimental forms. https://www.meredithstricker.com