Jeremy Allan Hawkins is the author of A Clean Edge (BOAAT Press, 2017). His poetry has been selected for the Best New Poets anthology series and the extended program of the Venice Architecture Biennial. He lives in France where he researches writing practice and spatial design.
Evangelos Kyriakos is a jewelry designer. He has studied graphic design and jewelry design and making in Athens. He continued his studies on jewelry in Italy. At the same time with the occasion of jewelry, he has experimented with the image in a broader context. He considers that the creative procedure is not liable to any predetermined rules & norms. Each time someone can invent any way to serve the idea. He has presented his jewels in exhibitions in Greece and abroad, which include “A Jewellery made in Greece” (Μuseum of Art and Design, New York), “Chemcraft” (gallery Εspacio, London), “The Essentiality of the Form” (Palakiss center, Vicenza), “Biennale of Arts” (Santorini), “Cross the line” (Genesis gallery, Athens), and the solo show “Τhe Constellation of the Face” (Marnery gallery, Athens).
Peter J. King was born and brought up in Boston, Lincolnshire. He was active on the London poetry scene in the 1970s, returning to poetry in 2013. His work (including translations from modern Greek [with Andrea Christo- fidou] and German poetry, short prose, and paintings) has since been widely published in magazines and anthologies. His in-print collections are Adding Colours to the Chameleon (Wisdom’s Bottom Press) and All What Larkin (Albion Beatnik Press).
Poetry-wrapped protest stones, one for each pocket ready to be thrown.
No
No: a poem by Emily Dickinson, 2 poetry-wrapped stones, left stone: 12.5 x 12.5 x 7.5 cm, right stone: 10 x 12.5 x 5 cm, 2020.
Protest
Protest: a poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, 2 poetry-wrapped stones, left stone: 9 x 12.5 x 5 cm, right stone: 10 x 12.5 x 4 cm, 2020.
Riot
Riot: a poem by Gwendolyn Brooks, 2 poetry-wrapped stones, left stone: 10 x 12.5 x 7.5 cm, right stone: 7.5 x 12.5 x 7.5 cm, 2020
Born in Lisburn, Northern Ireland, in 1959, Stefana McClure received her BA from Hornsey College of Art in London and continued her studies at Kyoto Seika University in Japan. She lives and works in New York. Recent solo exhibitions have been held at Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York (2018); Bartha Contemporary, London (2017); Sleeper, Edinburgh, Scotland (2017); and Arróniz Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City (2015). McClure has been included in numerous museum exhibitions, most recently Useless: Art Machines for Dreaming, Thinking, and Seeing, curated by Gerardo Mosquera, at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York (2019). Her work is included in many public collections including: The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, MA; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; The Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT; Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany; Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany; Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany; and The Machida City International Print Museum, Tokyo, Japan.
“time at a cross-section” features erasure poems of The New York Times articles from the 1910s-1960s, and erases, inserts, and blacks out words to reimagine narratives that aren’t misogynistic and transphobic. Some poems address gender identity and expression, while others contend with the pressures women face in literature; still others tackle the intersectionality of gender and race to comment on modern-day issues while appropriating older language.
Monica Kim is a social justice advocate and aspiring writer. Born in Seoul, South Korea, she has lived in New Jersey for most of her life. Her writing has been published in The Mantle, Okay Donkey, Thimble Magazine, Stirring, and The Michigan Quarterly Review Online.
J.I. Kleinberg’s visual poems have been published in print and online journals worldwide. An artist, poet, and freelance writer, she lives in Bellingham, Washington, USA, and on Instagram @jikleinberg.
Janelle Cordero is an interdisciplinary artist and educator living in the seventh most hipster city in the U.S. Her writing has been published in dozens of literary journals, including Harpur Palate and The Louisville Review, while her paintings have been featured in venues throughout the Pacific Northwest. Janelle is the author of two books of poetry: Woke to Birds (V.A. Press, 2019) and Two Cups of Tomatoes (P.W.P. Press, 2015). Her new book of poetry and artwork, Many Types of Wildflowers, is forthcoming in December 2020 from V.A. Press. Stay connected with Janelle’s work at www.janellecordero.com.
Kiriakos Spirou (b.1984, Limassol) is a Cypriot art writer, editor, copywriter, independent publisher and award-winning composer and pianist. He has contributed art criticism, interviews and articles to newspapers, magazines and online media in Greece, Cyprus, Belgium, Sweden and the UK, and has written for exhibition catalogues in Greece, the Netherlands, Serbia and Cyprus. His curatorial projects include five group exhibitions and a solo show. He has composed music for contemporary dance theatre, and has taught workshops on methodology and interdisciplinary collaborations between music and dance. His musical works have been performed in Cyprus, Greece, the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, Italy, Puerto Rico and the UK. He is the founding editor of und., an artist-run publishing platform for the development, promotion and documentation of underrepresented contemporary art in Athens and its wider region. Since 2019, he is a member of the Association Internationale des Critiques d’Art (AICA). He lives and works in Athens, Greece.
Caterina Stamou studied Cultural Management and English & American literature. She mostly enjoys writing when she sees it as a process of radical self-honesty and self-acceptance. She lives in Athens, Greece.
I am here at home in Bow Street, a village two miles from the west coast of Wales. As a visual poet, the call for Nest came as rapidly as the collapse of my design programmes caused by updating computer operating systems to cope with the communication needs of lockdown. “here” visualises the surrounding landscape and sudden silence through a face to face encounter with a badger, whose eyes I’d like to think trace the events of centuries past; an experience I can never hope to share in a world we are struggling and failing to understand. You can find plenty of other visual poems on my website to keep you busy in lockdown: http://users.aber.ac.uk/jpm/visual/words.html
Kika Kyriakakou has been working as an Arts Project Manager, a Communications Director and an Arts Writer and Editor for almost 10 years (BA, Msc). She is an ICOM Member, the Collection and Exhibitions Manager of PCAI and the Artistic Director of the PCAI Residency, supervising all the arts and education related projects of the organization and undertaking its international expansion and promotion. She is also contributing as an Arts Editor with articles on new media, film and contemporary art in the Artnews newspaper (Greek edition). She has organized and curated various film festivals, screenings events and exhibitions related to moving image, contemporary art, sustainability and fashion partnering with ART21 NYC, Loop Discover and Kunstlerhaus Vienna amongst others. A self-taught photographer and videographer, she is particularly interested in urban imagery and gender history.
Η Κίκα Κυριακάκου έχει εργαστεί ως Arts Project Manager, Communications Director και Arts Writer and Editor για σχεδόν 10 χρόνια (ΒΑ, ΜSc). Είναι μέλος του ICOM, Collection & Exhibitions Manager του PCAI και Καλλιτεχνική Διευθύντρια του PCAI Residency, έχοντας αναλάβει την επίβλεψη όλων των καλλιτεχνικών και εκπαιδευτικών προγραμμάτων του οργανισμού, και τη διεθνή επέκταση και προώθησή του. Είναι επίσης, συντάκτρια στην εφημερίδα Τα Νέα της Τέχνης όπου αρθρογραφεί για τα νέα μέσα, το φιλμ και τη σύγχρονη τέχνη. Έχει οργανώσει και επιμεληθεί διάφορα φεστιβάλ ταινιών, προβολές και εκθέσεις που σχετίζονται με την κινούμενη εικόνα, τη σύγχρονη τέχνη, τη βιωσιμότητα και τη μόδα σε συνεργασία με το ART21 NYC, το Loop Discover και το Kunstlerhaus Vienna, μεταξύ άλλων. Ως αυτοδίδακτη φωτογράφο και βιντεογράφο την αποσχολούν ιδιαίτερα η αστική τοπιογραφία και η ιστορία των φύλων.
hiromi suzuki is a poet, novelist and artist living in Tokyo, Japan. She is the author of Ms. cried, 77 poems by hiromi suzuki (Kisaragi Publishing, 2013), logbook (Hesterglock Press, 2018), INVISIBLE SCENERY (Low Frequency Press, 2018). Her works have been published internationally in poetry journals, literary journals and anthologies.
Web site: http://hiromisuzukimicrojournal.tumblr.com Twitter : @HRMsuzuki
“Take the Witches’ Path out” is a kind of memento mori infused poem, that shares coincidental geometries and spatialisation – and its own dark obsessions (chromatically subverted) – with the third painting in Damian Hirst’s triptych “The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth” (2008), from his No Love Lost: Blue Paintings collection (2009). Hirst’s painting depicts a human skull and the skeleton of what appears to be a shark’s open jaws. Faint angular lines trace desire paths that draw the viewers’ gaze, suggesting pathways through which the swimmer may pass, to escape or to capture – all the while knowing that any such liberty is only fleeting.
“Take the Witches’ Path out” in itself is based on a three card tarot reading, in situ, to ascertain the fortunes of two prisoners who escaped from San Marino’s jail in August 2018. Its eccentric layout starts in the middle: the Centro Storico, San Marino’s old mountain-top city centre and location of its jail. The prison is a small collection of cells in a wing of the Capuchin Monastery, just outside the city walls. We witnessed the roadblocks, dawn paraglider and helicopter reconnaissance missions and the barking of police dogs through the night in their efforts to stop the prisoners crossing into Italy. Through scant news reports online we found out that these were the only two prisoners currently held in the jail.
The questions and tarot readings are set in Aubrey and the verse text is set in Sans Forgetica, a new Creative Commons font developed by RMIT in Australia, which has proved to aid memory when reading, through the now-you-see-it-now-you-don’t spaces placed in the characters. The font was chosen for “Take the Witches’ Path out” to follow the movements of the seemingly invisible prisoners and our own recurrent sightings of the same guards along Passo delle Streghe, the forested, cliff-top “Witches’ Path” between two of the three towers of central San Marino. Darker, more esoteric and mythopoeic practices are also referred to from The Dictionary of the Khazars (1989) by Milorad Pavić. All colours are extracted from photographs taken between the towers and the colours of the card readings are “quoted” from the ‘La Corte dei Tarocchi’ by Anna Maria D’Onofrio.
References D’Onofrio, Anna Maria, ‘La Corte dei Tarocchi’ [Tarot cards] (Milano: Il Meneghello, 1999) Hirst, Damien, No Love Lost: Blue Paintings (London: Other Criteria, 2009) Hirst, Damien, ‘The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth’ [Oil on canvas] At: http://www.damienhirst.com/the-meek-shall-inherit-the-ear (Damienhirst.com, 2008) Pavić, Milorad, The Dictionary of the Khazars (New York: Vintage International, 1989) Sans Forgetica is available under Creative Commons CCBYNC licence from https://sansforgetica.rmit
John Morgan’s poems offer a visual engagement with real, imagined or received experience of landscape, place, identity and myth. His writing often responds in situ to the works of other writers and artists, as well as to the land itself and how it receives and ‘writes’ the identity of the person moving through it. His poems have appeared in a glimpse of, The Learned Pig and Reliquiae, but are mostly published on his own website, Visual
No: a poem by Emily Dickinson, 2 poetry-wrapped stones, left stone: 12.5 x 12.5 x 7.5 cm, right stone: 10 x 12.5 x 5 cm, 2020.
Protest: a poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, 2 poetry-wrapped stones, left stone: 9 x 12.5 x 5 cm, right stone: 10 x 12.5 x 4 cm, 2020. 
Riot: a poem by Gwendolyn Brooks, 2 poetry-wrapped stones, left stone: 10 x 12.5 x 7.5 cm, right stone: 7.5 x 12.5 x 7.5 cm, 2020 
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