Sujata Iyengar
Salp
Shapeless in your hand as though you'd hawked
a white translucent sticky mucus into your palm
or forgotten to flush after your fertile time
or blown your nose into your fist
Water brings the opposite of dissolution.
Suddenly the inchoate blob coheres,
Makes matter form. A lilliputian
Liquid limpid jellyfish appears:
Sea-sweeping salp, marine Cinderella,
Tiny membrane rawly unfurled,
Tiny diaphanous filmy rag,
Tiny tentacled gentle umbrella,
Tiny fluttering watery flag,
Parachute to an invisible world.
Walking into a Web
you caught me in silk
sightless: I saw,
silvering the ribs of death,
spinning air into dew,
horned
Anansi:
horned,
spinning air, into dew
silvering the ribs of death
sightless, I saw
you caught: me in silk
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| AUTHOR BIO |
| Sujata Iyengar teaches Shakespeare, book history, and medical humanities at the University of Georgia. Her scholarly articles include an essay on Renaissance women poets' use of formal innovation to engage with intersections of race and gender ("Race in Early Modern Women's Writing," in The History of British Women's Writing, Volume 2) and her most recent books include the co-authored scholarly guide "Not Like an Old Play": Love's Labour's Lost de Shakespeare (Paris: Fahrenheit, 2014) and the edited collection Disability, Health, and Happiness in the Shakespearean Body (Routledge, 2015). Last year she won a fellowship to learn Book Arts and Papermaking at the Lamar Dodd School of Art for a current scholarly book project about Shakespeare, artists' books, and book history. Instead she found herself self-publishing, typesetting, and illustrating with lino-cuts a series of her linked haiku in a French-fold booklet, Insects in Sex (Butter-thief Books, 2014), and writing lyric poems obsessively. Her free and formal lyrics are now published or forthcoming in The Road Not Taken, Measure, Upstart Crow, Punctum Press's Lunch, and Unsplendid. |
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| POETRY CONTRIBUTORS |
 Kim Bridgford
Deborah Bruce
Melissa Garcia Criscuolo
Barbara Crooker
Elise Hempel
Katherine Hoerth
Sujata Iyengar
Karen Kelsay
Siham Karami
Miriam Kotzin
Jean L. Kreiling
Luann Landon
Jenna Le (Featured Poet)
Lesléa Newman
Angela O'Donnell
Renée M. Schell
Susan Spear
Rebecca Starks
Cara Valle
Marilyn Westfall
Joyce Wilson
Marly Youmans
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| The Cheryl Yun Collection is a range of image-based sculptural objects or "products," from handbags to clothing, which simultaneously mirror and subvert fashion and consumer culture to reveal, question, and reevaluate one's relationship to the world.The Cheryl Yun Collection handbag series is handcrafted and features newspaper photographs of tragedy and catastrophe, religious and political conflict, as well as issues of beauty and control, while the Cheryl Yun Collection: lingerie and bathing suits is an image-based series of underwear, which questions the "victims" and "aggressors" of our current political, economic and religious conflicts.
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