Insect Architecture - Shapiro, Alex Wells
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Highlighting the daily realities of identity amidst intersections, Alex Wells Shapiro's Insect Architecture examines the environments--urban, built, literary, implied, or denied--where the poet might find a place to thrive as a mixed-race person. This debut collection boldly takes on pressing social issues, advocating for the hope promised by density, whether of population or poetic construction. In doing so, Shapiro complicates the boundaries between personal spaces, between individuals and communities. It is within such density--by literal abutments, inside walls, along train tracks, across…mehr

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Highlighting the daily realities of identity amidst intersections, Alex Wells Shapiro's Insect Architecture examines the environments--urban, built, literary, implied, or denied--where the poet might find a place to thrive as a mixed-race person. This debut collection boldly takes on pressing social issues, advocating for the hope promised by density, whether of population or poetic construction. In doing so, Shapiro complicates the boundaries between personal spaces, between individuals and communities. It is within such density--by literal abutments, inside walls, along train tracks, across intersections--that Shapiro finds his place, one that (re)centers the borders, edges, and margins to which so many are now pushed.
Autorenporträt
Alex Wells Shapiro (he/him) is a poet and artist from the Hudson Valley, living in Chicago. He reads submissions for Frontier Poetry and Another Chicago Magazine, where he also serves as business and grants manager. He is a co-founder of Exhibit B: A Reading Series presented by The Guild Literary Complex. His work has appeared in Fourteen Hills, Word For/Word, The Under Review, Filling Station, and Sharkpack, among other respected literary journals.