SCARLET, is a digital visual/poetic meditation on the psychological and physical toll of social isolation during the COVID-19 lockdown. The project documents the social, political, and personal disruption of the pandemic as society moved through its various mutations and surges. The digital/visual poems in the collection were created through erasure of the novel The Scarlet Plague, by Jack London, collaged with glitched imagery from everyday life during the pandemic, with the poem titles being derived from objects contained in each glitched still life.
The book can be purchased from Amazon or the publisher at Spuyten Duyvil Press.
Excerpts of the project can be read in the following journals: FIVES: A Companion to Denver Quarterly, Matter, IceFloe Press: Pandemic Dispatches, The Indianapolis Review, Star 82 Review, Experiment-O, The Conjuncture, Heavy Feather Review, FERAL, Scapegoat Review, Imposter, Harpy Hybrid Review, Train, The New Verse News, Unlost Journal, DISGUST: Unhealthy Practices, East Window Gallery, and Posit.