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?
Essays
The Sonnets
Click on any date below to view an interactive sonnet. Use the "shuffle" button to randomize the lines, and "reset" to return them to their original order.