ADVENT DAY TWENTY-ONE: WANDA PHIPPS

     Her

      inspired by a film by Spike Jonze

      intuitive HER

      adaptive HER

      helpful HER

      omnipresent HER

      effective HER

      persuasive HER

      perceptive HER

      hilarious HER

      wave HER

      particle HER

      particular HER

      operating HER

      system HER

      systematic HER

      operative HER

      operatic HER

      insistent HER

      logical HER

      compassionate HER

      desperate HER

      HER inside the hardware

      HER inside the mainframe

      HER inside the multiverse

      HER inside your mind space

      HER inside the ones and zeros

      HER without the smartphone

      HER without the cigarettes

      HER without grief

      HER without separation

      HER without the exes

      around HER the skyline

      around HER the ocean

      around HER the electromagnetic field

      around HER the transportation system

      around HER the full philosophy

      above HER the sound of birds

      above HER the open view

      above HER the infinite sweetness 

WANDA PHIPPS is a writer/performer living in NYC. Her books include Field of Wanting: Poems of Desire and Wake-Up Calls: 66 Morning Poems. Her poetry has been translated into Ukrainian, Hungarian, Arabic, Galician and Bangla. She has received awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the National Theater Translation Fund, and others. As a founding member of Yara Arts Group she has collaborated on numerous theatrical productions presented in Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, Siberia, and at La MaMa, E.T.C. in NYC. She’s curated reading series at the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church and written about the arts for Time Out New York, Paper Magazine, and About.com. Check out her website: www.mindhoney.com.

photo credit: Ken Kerbs   

Rose Window I Felt Cold

Wanda Phipps is a writer/performer and author of six books including Field of Wanting: Poems of Desire and Wake-Up Calls: 66 Morning Poems. Her poetry has been translated into Ukrainian, Hungarian, Arabic, Bangla and Galician. Her website is: mindhoney.com.


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Day 14: Wanda Phipps

Wanda Phipps is a writer/performer living in NYC, the author of Field of Wanting: Poems of Desire (BlazeVOX[books]), Wake-Up Calls: 66 Morning Poems (Soft Skull Press), Your Last Illusion or Break Up Sonnets (Situations), Lunch Poems (Boog Literature), Silent Pictures Recognize the World (Dusie Press), Rose Window or Prosettes (Dusie Press), the Faux Press issued e-chapbook After the Mishap and the CD-Rom Zither Mood. Her poetry has been published in a variety of publications, including the anthologies Verses that Hurt: Pleasure and Pain From the Poemfone Poets (St. Martin's Press) and The Boog Reader (Boog Lit) and has been translated into Ukrainian, Hungarian, Arabic, Bangla and Galician. She has received awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Meet the Composer/International Creative Collaborations Program, Agni Journal, the National Theater Translation Fund, and the New York State Council on the Arts. As a founding member of Yara Arts Group she has collaborated on numerous theatrical productions presented in Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan and Siberia, as well as in New York City at La MaMa, E.T.C. She’s also curated several reading and performance series at the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church as well as other NYC venues and written about the arts for Time Out New York, Paper Magazine, and About.com.