stories & noise

a ruin in progress

come in. sit down. just look at all this room.

This is not my name dot com. This space is an invitation. The projects housed here are the fruits of intense & playful collaboration with many folks across various modes / methods / channels of making & they are almost always ongoing. I invite you to browse the links at the top of this page or via the tiles below which I have loosely categorized into:

You can also find specific pages dedicated to more expansive / ongoing projects such as:

Welcome warm
always & all ways

—C. (Constantine Jones).

***Please note that, because of the deliberate formatting of the works within, stories & noise is best viewed on a desktop whenever possible. All header photos & Polaroids within were taken by me unless expressly noted otherwise.***

upcoming

For The Record: Poetry As Documentation
*"I Pass my life / through the eye of the same rusty / old needle / and I sew, I sew my passion.” — Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke, Trans. Eleni Fourtouni*
Poetry, like life, never happens in a vacuum. We are always tied to our own times and bodies and political circumstances, but this is not a restrictive bind–it is a powerful thread connecting us all. If we re-consider the act of “documentation” as less about trying to preserve time and more about trying to understand our relationship to it and role within it, then we can start to view poems not as static works of art on a page, but as an enduring record of lived experience. This is poetry that digs its heels into time and says: “I was here, I am still here, and I will go on being here.”
During this six-week, in-person workshop, we will read and engage with a number of poets and musicians who have used their work to document their experience in relation to the political circumstances of their time. Together we will work towards a poetry of interconnectedness—one that can mobilize us in the present moment while also reaching forward to the future, leaving a record of our movements in its wake.

most recently

This digital zine, WE REMIND YOU: HIV & PALESTINE, was made in collaboration with What Would An HIV Doula Do? (WWHIVDD).
For my part, I contributed a Poem For You “We Remind You” for an ACT UP NY x JVP protest on World AIDS Day 2023, as well as a poem, “Watermelon Seeds,” after Refaat Alareer & David Wojnarowicz. I invite you to spend time with this entire document, made in communal love & rage.

Collaborative chapbook with Portuguese visual artist Vicente Sampaio, BALEEN: A Poem In Twelve Days, released via Ursus Americanus Fall ‘22. Snag one today.

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