VOLTA

“Volta” is an experimental art project and sonnet series that seeks to disrupt the strict rhetorical structure of the traditional sonnet through a process of digitally facilitated randomization. Given our current political landscape, I have been preoccupied with writing a poetry that breaks its own rules and reflects the ongoing disintegrations we are experiencing as a country. I’m choosing to write in an unfamiliar and difficult form to enforce uncertainty as I embrace the act of inquiry and ask: What happens when the conclusion is foregone? Can these fourteen lines become a lyric experience of the aftermath? What happens when we refuse resolution? What is my duty as a poet to document this violent reality?