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Author: Elisabeth Workman Elisabeth Workman

Elisabeth Workman is a writer and poet with a background in dance. She’s the author of a dozen chapbooks—including The Figures: A Litter (Dancing Girl Press)—and the poetry collections ULTRAMEGAPRAIRIELAND (Bloof Books) and ENDLESSNESS IS NO DESOLATION (Dusie Press). She collaborates with visual artists, public practice artists, musicians, other poets (dead and alive), and plants. Her work has appeared in The End of the World Project (Moria Books), Counter-Desecration: A Glossary for Writing in the Anthropocene (Wesleyan), Flarf: An Anthology of Flarf (Edge Books), and in a Codex of Quotidian Beasts (with Jenny Schmid’s cryptozoological etchings). Numerous institutions have made time/space ($) for these weird explorations possible (including Jerome, McKnight, MCAD, MSAB, SAFTA, U of M Creative Writing MFA Program, the PA Council on the Arts, and In Cahoots) and in turn have informed her teaching that finds in poetry a vessel/crucible for transformation and radical embodiment. She can be found in the disembodied realm at elisabethworkman.com.

Three people stand in front of fence, eyes closed, noses upturned to smell
1Janet Lobberecht, Miranda Trimmier and Gudrun Lock. Photo: Marc Scamp.
Literature Performing Arts
2-26-2025

Report of the Smelling Committee

Elisabeth Workman
A field of tall plants, or weeds, with red and orange train cars in the distance
1
Literature
12-6-2024

Shoreham Yards: Notes on the Periphery

Elisabeth Workman
Person stands amidst darkness and small spots of light, staring at cloth in a swirl of white light on the floor.
1A.P. Looze, I Can See The Sky. Photo: Bruce Silcox.
Performing Arts
8-30-2024

32 Mutations for A.P. Looze’s
I Can See The Sky

Elisabeth Workman
Large rectangle made of black plastic molded trays of various shapes.
1Heather M. Cole, Landscape, 2024. Courtesy the artist.
Moving Image Visual Art
5-8-2024

Grief, Play, and Gleaning at the End of Empire: On Used

Elisabeth Workman
Cast concrete face with closed eyes and seashell mounted on concrete shard
1Alexa Horochowski, La Sirena, 2024. Courtesy the artist and Dreamsong.
Literature Visual Art
2-16-2024

Reliquarium: On Alexa Horochowski’s Under the Sea-Wind

Elisabeth Workman
Aerial photograph of train yard with adjacent neighborhoods
1Shoreham Yards aerial view. Part of Shoreham Repository. Courtesy the artist.
Literature Moving Image Visual Art
12-20-2023

Shoreham Repository: A Feralegium

Elisabeth Workman
Many small, multicolored drawings of demons arranged on bright orange wall.
1Tamar Ettun, 66 Drawings, Leaves, and a Stick, 2023. Courtesy the artist and Dreamsong.
Performing Arts Visual Art
7-28-2023

Demon Bloomsongs: Tamar Ettun’s Vivid Somatics

Elisabeth Workman
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