Bound Together :: Jacob Kahn & Caitlyn Tella
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THE MANUSCRIPT
The poems in A Is For Aegis attend to the pastoral panorama and lyric minutiae of life in the technocratic heart of empire. Engaged with a loose lineage of Bay Area pastoralism, these are poems of vantage and habitude, town and city, ownership and eviction, labor and liability, routine and pleasure, ditty and bickering.
THE AUTHOR
Jacob Kahn is a poet and editor living in Oakland, CA. He is the author of the chapbooks Mine Eclogue (Dirty Swan Projects, 2019) and A Circuit of Yields (Wolfman Books, 2014). Recent writing can be found in Salones de Belleza / The Beauty Salons (Gato Negro Ediciones/Wolfman Books, 2021), Lana Turner 12, grama, Mirage #5 Period(ical), and Full Stop Quarterly. From 2016-2020, he was a managing editor, curator, and bookseller at Wolfman Books, a bookstore, small press, and community arts hub in downtown Oakland. In 2018, he was a fellow at Epicenter in Green River, UT, a rural design studio and community-based artist residency. He is an editor of the poetry chapbook press, Eyelet Press, which he cofounded with Sophia Dahlin in 2019, and currently works as a freelance grantwriter and copyeditor, and as a library aide at the Berkeley Public Library.
Kahn Excerpt
Regulators come to paradise
sprigs of lavender, lockets of hair
stuff nobody sesames
quite like the super rich
T’was my sweat
on proctor’s brow
tossing bread to the birds
at the lake
Fallacy entails a dampened future
Introspection has a limit
I follow the courageous example of the satellite
I’m not one to enter the valley twice
THE MANUSCRIPT
This chapbook explores the confluence of reality and fantasy, actor and character, from the perspective of a variety of performers—from 19th-century actress Siri Von Essen to deepfake persona Lil Miquela. The poems construct a multivalent theater to expose the causes and consequences of losing (and finding) oneself in a role.
THE AUTHOR
Caitlyn Tella is a poet and performer originally from the Bay Area. Her poetry appears in Fence, Nat. Brut, Witch Craft, Dirt Child and elsewhere, and she has a chapbook forthcoming from Mondo Bummer. She contributes a column about performance to The Quarterless Review called Rituals and her plays have been supported by Z Space, Theatre Bay Area, San Jose Repertory Theater, Hemera Foundation, Body-Mind Centering Association and Scatterstate Theater, among others. A former educator, she taught devised theater and physical approaches to acting at American Conservatory Theater, University of Toledo and throughout the Bay Area as an independent teaching artist. She received an MFA in contemporary performance from Naropa and lives in New York City.
Tella Excerpt
In my play there are no blackouts,
only night. No fake blood
and the actors cannot act.
If the play stares back wall-eyed
it’s because the play isn’t a mirror.
When the play ends
you may go home.
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