![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Luisa came up with “gaslighght,” setting a political tone for the project while giving a shout-out to Aram Saroyan, the dean of extreme micropoetry, and his famous lighght. So we got together on Facebook Messenger one afternoon and brainstormed a whole list. We originally planned to do a more standard linked-verse sequence modeled after Japanese renku, but a few days before Christmas, Dave posted a neologism to Twitter, infestive, and thought it might be fun to try to compose a whole series of such one-word poems. Artist’s Statement: This dialogue in poetic neologisms was produced in part as a sort of New Year’s card for the readers of Via Negativa, a daily poetry blog that we co-author. ![]()
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