I wrote about Imposter Syndrome, feeling like a big faker, and my desire for revolution in the May issue of City Arts Magazine.
http://cityartsonline.com/articles/fake-it-%E2%80%99til-you-make-it
Fake It ‘Til You Make It
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Walk the Line
New Video Poem
LA AWP 2016
I was Seattle Review of Books’ eyes on the ground at the AWP conference and bookfair in Los Angeles this year, attending readings and panels all day and into the night, then gathering all my notes and writing a blog post at 3:00 in the morning, every day. Whoo-wee!
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Apocalpyse, religion, & science fiction
An essay I wrote and some cartoons I drew are up on LitHub today! Thanks to Seattle Arts & Lectures for bringing out Emily St. John Mandel, the author of Station Eleven, which inspired this essay, and to Rebecca Hoogs for commissioning me to write it, and to Literary Hub for publishing it, including my apocalypse-obsessed cartoons.
Burning Questions for Burning Bushes
An oldie, but a goodie. Back in August 2013, Vis-a-Vis Society installed this question/answer machine at Smoke Farm’s Lo-Fi Festival. Photos by Britta Johnson. Some of the resulting poems app…
Vis-a-Vis Society’s NEW video poem an homage to Spaghetti Westerns and Sergio Leone
You can watch an excerpt of “The End” here. The Vis-a-Vis Society teamed up with Britta Johnson and drove out to the desert last summer to shoot some Spaghetti Western, Sergio-Leone-esq…
Source: Vis-a-Vis Society’s NEW video poem an homage to Spaghetti Westerns and Sergio Leone
THE END Video Poem
Just a few ways to end.
This video is a collaboration with Sierra Nelson. Together we are Vis-a-Vis Society, a group of poet-scientists dedicated to the analysis of the everyday. This excerpt is from Vis-a-Vis Society’s much longer video poem/instructional video of 1,000 ways to end. Premiered as part of Vis-a-Vis Society’s interactive installation piece “Registration” at NEPO 5K Don’t Run 2015. Written and performed by Rachel Kessler and Sierra Nelson. Director of cinematography: Britta Johnson. Editor: Britta Johnson. Sound: Britta Johnson. Studio Recording: Kent Kessler.
WITS Voices: I Am – Self-Portrait in Objects and Personal Geographies
Livestream Reading at Hollow Earth Radio
I’ve been obsessively researching Yesler Way, writing an essay up and down it
examining the palimpsest of this street
I’ll be reading an excerpt from this essay on Saturday, November 14, 7:30 PM at
2018 E Union St, # A, Seattle, Washington 98122
APRIL Festival is partnering with the Letters Festival in Atlanta to present this special IRL and internet-hosted event.
We’ll watch livestreamed readings from Tanwi Nandini Islam, Michael Kimball. Live in studio, we’ll project Jane Wong and Rachel Kessler to the other side of the country!
More about the Letters Festival: lettersfestival.org
More about APRIL: aprilfestival.com
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