Writer's Guide to Multimodal Poetry

Benjamin Gunsberg is Associate Professor of English at Utah State University USA. His doctoral work at the University of Michigan focused on the impact of digital technology on teaching writing, which he developed through qualitative studies of courses that integrated audio/video production and computer coding into the undergraduate English curriculum. His scholarship has appeared in The Journal of Creative Writing Studies, Computers and Composition, and Teaching/Writing: The Journal of Writing Teacher Education, among others and he has most recently contributed the chapter “Discovery, Play, and Motivation in the Multimodal Creative Writing Classroom” to Multimodal and Digital Creative Writing Pedagogies (2023). He is the author of the poetry collection Welcome, Dangerous Life (2018) and the chapbook Rhapsodies with Portraits (2015). His poems appear in numerous literary magazines, including Poetry Daily, DIAGRAM, and Mid-American Review.C. R. Grimmer is Assistant Professor of Poetry Writing at Utah State University, USA, where they advise both graduate and undergraduate students on multimodal poetry projects alongside traditional alphanumeric poetry texts. Grimmer received their Ph.D. in Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Washington (UW, Seattle) and they have taught multimodal composition and multimodal creative writing at Seattle University, the Seattle and Bothell UW campuses, and South Seattle Community College. Their own poems have been featured as audio museum installations, most recently at the Seattle Convention Center’s “Sound Summit” exhibit and the Nora Eccles Heritage Museum of Art. They have presented at numerous conferences on multimodal poetry as social justice intervention, including the Association for Writers and Publishers (AWP) and the Modern Language Association (MLA). Their book of poetry, The Lyme Letters, was completed with a Harlan Hahn Disability Studies Fellowship and was published in 2021.

• Introduction by Benjamin Gunsberg and C. R. Grimmer1. "We Cannot Make Them Happy Behave Passionate Safe Sorry", Rachel Zucker (NYU, USA)2. Edges & Fray, Danielle Voegel (Wesleyan University, USA)3. “Dólii”, Bojan Louis (University of Arizona)4. “A Prime Number for Nadia and Lili Boulanger”, Patrick Milian (Green River College, USA)5. “Cyan, Threads, and Light: Revisioning Poetic Process in Multiple Media”, Kelly Hoffer (Univerity of Michigan, USA) 6. Prompt Press 13: Prompt for the Planet, Jennifer Coleville (Founding Editor, Prompt Press)7. Just The Thing: Visual Poetry and Collage, Sarah J. Sloat (Poet)8. Erasure, Laura Didyk (Poet)9. “The Junk Drawer as a Kind of Ideal”, Mark Ehling (Visual Artist)10. "We Face the Tremendous Meat on the Teppan", Naoko Fujimoto (Poet)11. Folk Music and Improvisation in Poetry, Abraham Smith (Weber State University, USA)12. Possibility, Wordless Prompts, and Multithreaded Meeting Grounds, DJ Saverese (Poet and activist)13. Translating Ma Indira Devi Through Poetry, Oil Painting, and Music, Michael Sowder (Utah State University, USA)14. Cultural Exigencies of Visual Poetry, Andrew Brenza (Visual Poet)15. Black Girlhood and the Concentrate Archive, Courtney Faye Taylor (Visual Artist)16. “Poetry and Painting Take Classes at Arthur Murray”, Scott Poole (Poet)17. “On Tools”, Ander Monson (University of Arizona, USA)18. “Lightscatter Press”, Lisa Bickmore (Salt Lake Community, USA)19. Student Example20. Student Example21. Student ExampleIndex