Poetry Expo 25
/ 23 February 2025
Prism of Words
Exploring the Dimensionality of Language
Poetry Expo 25
This project explores language as a prism, refracting reality into multiple dimensions. By merging linguistic, visual, and spatial elements, it examines the latent potential of words, their contexts, and associations. Drawing from avant-garde, language poetry, and phenomenological approaches, it creates texts that evoke sensory experiences, constructing and deconstructing perceptions and hidden connections in an elusive, fluid narrative. Influenced by science (physics and math), art, philosophy, and technology, these poems push the boundaries of perception.
The project is part of the subthemes Re-imagining identity through poetry, The Ecology of Language - Poetry and Environmental Action, Technopoetics - AI, Digital Media and the Future of Creativity.
Author
Ekaterina Derysheva
Ekaterina Derysheva is a displaced poet from Kharkiv, born in 1994 in Melitopol, Ukraine. Her poems have been published in journals such as Poem-a-Day series, Asymptote, Plume, Zerkalo, Tlen Literacki, Literaturportal Bayern, Wizje, Volga, Homo Legens, and others. She is the author of the books "Starting Point" (2018) and "There Will Be No Installation" (2023), and the co-author of the book "Earth Time" (Romania, 2020). Her poems are featured in the anthology "In the Hour of War," edited by Ilya Kaminsky and Carolyn Forché. She was longlisted for the Arkadiy Dragomoshchenko Prize (2019) and is a laureate of the Europa Mai Prize (2022). Her poems have been translated into 11 languages.
She has received fellowships from Villa Concordia (Bamberg), LCB (Berlin), Next Page Foundation (Sofia), La Factorie (Normandy, 2023), Villa Sarkia (Sysmä, Finland, 2023), Moskosel Creative Lab (Sweden), the University of Pennsylvania (2024), Artist Protection Fund Fellowship.
