Spotlight series #109 : Terri Witek

Curated by Canadian writer, editor and publisher rob mclennan, the “spotlight” series appears the first Monday of every month.

STATEMENT :
sticky note from Beyoncé:
“I think sometimes genre is a code word to keep us in our place as artists.”

tomb pombs

tomb +

to be included
relocate your gold
ass + eye-spear
the unstruggle
of entry: green cup
w/ a fit of foliage
or the opposite
ingress: big-headed
braided gotcha

tomb [ ]

so proper the corridor
+ painted door —
you the livid blue-legged one
me a little shovel of wing

tomb >

why so deep?
cool
+ robbers

+ to biggify death
keeps humming
the city

Terri Witek’s books of poetry include her newest collections, Something’s Missing in This Museum (Anhinga, 2023) and copies: I loved you in the hard old way (Sigilist Press, 2024); a new chapbook, Down Water Street, is forthcoming from above/ground press in 2025. Her work has also been included in the visual poetics anthologies JUDITH: Women Making Visual Poetry and the WAAVe Global Gallery of Women Asemic Artist and Visual Poets, among others. She teaches Poetry in the Expanded Field in Stetson University’s low-residency MFA with Brazilian visual artist Cyriaco Lopes; they lead The Fernando Pessoa Game at the Disquiet International Literary Program each summer in Lisbon as well. Their collaborative work has been represented at ARCO in Madrid and in Seoul, Chania (Crete), Miami, New York, Philadelphia, Lisbon, and Valencia, Spain. Witek holds the Sullivan Chair in Creative Writing at Stetson University (US) terriwitek.com