We’re thrilled to share our fall 2021 web series, BODY LANGUAGE. For this series, we sought out work that engages the way we think, talk, write, and create with an awareness of our bodies as active participants. This series was inspired by Calamities by Renee Gladman, in particular Gladman’s notion of writing as “the story of the body in thought.” Thinking about writing as the story of the body in thought expanded our view of the role of the body in art making, and inspired us to seek out other writing centered on this idea.
Each piece is accompanied by artwork by Graceina Samosir, a visual artist based in Ottawa, Canada. She uses a “combination of painterly, gestural, and graphic approaches to drawing…to convey her world in a raw manner, underpinning the significance of internal monologues, honesty, transparency, vulnerability, and embracing the malleability of the process.” Learn more about Graceina and support her work here.
Graceina Samosir
b o d y l a n g u a g e
Aimee Wright Clow's Meditation; Nue Couchée (poem)
Jessica Ram's 88-01 88th Street (poem)
Leah Claire Kaminski's Last Night at Dinner Someone Said a Word I Don't Remember, a Word (poem)
Kieran Mundy's The Way Other People Believe in Heaven (flash fiction)
Sally Badawi's Three Births: the Body in the Throes of Myth (poem)
Chelsea Bunn's Copper Age (poem)
Julia McDaniel’s Cancer’s Fingers and Birthday (poems)
Dani Putney’s If I Remain a Boy and Siopao (poems)
Kelly Weber's Nocturne with Keys Clenched Between Knuckles (poem)
TR Brady’s Little Cold Amp (poem)
Lena Crown’s Spine as Pencil Lead, Sharpening (flash nonfiction)