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“By integrating design thinking to the production of visual poetry, I’m able to question the conventions of reading, model new publishing futures, and reimagine what poetry readings can be.”
Monica Ong is the author of Silent Anatomies (Kore Press). Ong’s work has been published in Poetry, Scientific American, The Asian American Literary Review, and is forthcoming in the anthology The Mouth Holds Many Things: A De-Canon Hybrid Lit Collection (Fonograf Editions).
A Kundiman Poetry Fellow and graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, Ong’s visual poetry innovates on text+image to surface hidden narratives of women and diaspora. Planetaria, her recent series of astronomy-inspired visual poems, was exhibited at the Poetry Foundation (2022) and the Hunterdon Art Museum (2023).
In 2021, Ong founded Proxima Vera, a micropress specializing in fine press visual poetry editions and literary art objects, many of which have been acquired by institutional collections and museums worldwide.
Donor -This award was generously supported by the Barr Foundation.
This artist page was last updated on: 08.18.2024