THANKS TO CREATIVE CAPITAL

I’m honored to be on this short list of finalists for the 2023 Creative Capital Award in Literature! And to share that space with the cherished poet/person Divya Victor. They tell us there were 3000 applicants this year, which is devoted to Wild Futures: Art, Culture, Impact.

“Pennies From Nether” devotes itself to the tracing of the byways of copper extraction, refinement, and salvage.  It unearths the copper underpinning the so-called “global village,” moving from my New York neighborhood’s toxic mill to South American mines and smelters, and tracing the planetary fallout of what we blithely call the “cloud.”