towards a participatory poetics

"My interest personally is always in the "rub" between "self" and "other," outside/inside, male/female, and how words can play with those dualities, creating sparks in the very clash and mesh of the phones and phonemes. And how, too, the mouthing of the words, the vocalization, can generate energy that stirs people out of mesmerization. I'm interested in a participatory poetics, a transformative poetics."

Poet Anne Waldman -- Whole Earth Review, 1988