Visual Poetry Through the Lens of the Long Poem : folio
Amaranth Borsuk [photo credit: Brad Brouse] is a poet, scholar, and book artist working at the intersection of print and digital media. Her latest volume is The Book (MIT Press, 2018), a concise introduction to the book as object, content, idea, and interface. She is the author of the poetry collections Pomegranate Eater (Kore Press) and Handiwork (Slope Editions) as well as three collaborative books of poems. She is associate director of the MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics at the University of Washington, Bothell. amaranthborsuk.com
Terri Witek is the author of 7 books of poetry: her newest collection is The Rattle Egg (2021). Recent work has been featured in two new international anthologies: JUDITH: Women Making Visual Poetry (2021), and in the WAAVe Global Anthology of women’s asemic writing and visual poetry (2021). Her many collaborations with artists and writers have been featured in performances, museum shows, and gallery exhibitions. Witek teaches Poetry in the Expanded Field in Stetson University’s MFA of the Americas with Brazilian visual artist Cyriaco Lopes, and their work together is represented by the liminal in Valencia, Spain. terriwitek.com/ Borsuk and Witek began sending each other the first audio transmissions that eventually became W/\SH in June, 2015.