Stephanie Strickland

Stephanie Strickland’s recent book, Zone : Zero (book + CD), includes two interactive digital poems. Her prize-winning volumes include V: WaveSon.nets / Losing L’una, True North, and The Red Virgin: A Poem of Simone Weil. Her latest collaborative hypermedia poem, slippingglimpse, was introduced in Paris and shown at the 2009 e-Poetry festival in Barcelona. She teaches at many colleges and universities, most recently the University of Utah, and is a director of the Electronic Literature Organization.

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Beatrix Potter

long before Peter proffered “exquisite

drawings” and her discovery

—symbiotic mycology—

in her paper

(1897)

“Germination of the spores of Agaricineae”

a voice unseen

unseeable at Kew requisitely

male

eschewed “unnatural union

between a captive Algal damsel and a tyrant

Fungal master”

Beatrix Potter

“It is extraordinary how botanists have . . . not in the least

seen the broad bearing of it.”

Beatrix Potter

“I was not shy, not at all. I had it up and down

with him. His line was on the outside

of civil . . . . I informed

him that it would all be in the books in ten years, whether or

no, and departed

giggling. I ought to wear

blue spectacles on these occasions.”

"Beatrix" first appeared in 2009 in 1913 a journal of forms, issue 3