Amaranth Borsuk
Amaranth Borsuk\u2019s work focuses on textual materiality\u2014from the surface of the page to the surface of language.\n\n\nHer most recent projects are the chapbook\xa0W/\\SH: Initial Contact (Above/Ground, 2021), a speculative ecopoetic collaboration with Terri Witek;\xa0The Book: 101 Definitions (Anteism, 2021), a collection of definitions of the book by artists, writers, scholars, librarians, and book artists; and Curt Curtal Sonnet Corona (QPL, 2020), a printable chapbook of computer-generated curtal sonnets. Borsuk is also the author of\xa0The Book\xa0(MIT Press, 2018), a brief introduction to the book as object, content, idea, and interface published in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series.\n\nHer books of poetry include\xa0Pomegranate Eater\xa0(Kore Press, 2016),\xa0\xa0Handiwork\xa0(Slope Editions, 2012), selected by Paul Hoover for the 2011 Slope Editions Poetry Prize; and\xa0Tonal Saw\xa0(The Song Cave, 2010), a chapbook-length erasure.\xa0Abra\xa0(1913 Press, 2016), a book of mutating poems created with Kate Durbin, received an NEA-sponsored Expanded Artists\u2019 Books grant from the Center for Book and Paper Arts at Columbia College Chicago and was released as a limited-edition book with a free\xa0iPad / iPhone app\xa0created by Ian Hatcher. The collaboration\xa0As We Know\xa0(Subito Press, 2014), selected by Julie Carr for the Subito Prize, reshapes 60 entries from Andy Fitch\u2019s summer diary into a collective confessional/constructivist collage that foregrounds the tensions of authorship.\n\nCollaboration and materiality are central to Borsuk\u2019s practice. Together with Brad Bouse, she created\xa0Between Page and Screen\xa0(Siglio Press, 2012; Springgun Press, 2016), a book of augmented-reality poetry. It has been featured on Salon.com, BrainPickings, Wired, and other media sites and has been exhibited widely. Through a grant from CT@Work and SiteProjects, Inc., Borsuk and Bouse completed\xa0Whispering Galleries\xa0(2014), a site-specific interactive text work for the New Haven Free Public Libraries that uses the Leap gestural controller to invite visitors to brush the dust from a historic diary, revealing poems hidden within it. Borsuk\u2019s other digital collaborations include\xa0Wave Signs, an immersive sound installation with\xa0Carrie Bodle; and\xa0The Deletionist, an erasure bookmarklet created with\xa0Nick Montfort\xa0and Jesper Juul.\n\n\nBorsuk is currently an Associate Professor in the School of\xa0Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences\xa0at the University of Washington, Bothell, where she also serves as Associate Director of the\xa0MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics.\xa0\nThe book mentioned at the end of the interview was by Renee Gladman:\xa0Houses of Ravicka\n\n\n\nPomegranate Eater (Kore Press, 2016)\n\n\n\n\nThe Book (MIT Press, 2018)