Seeking Funding For: The Arctic Circle Residency

What: The Arctic Circle, 2025 Art & Science Expedition, is a two week artist and scientist led expeditionary residency at sea on a traditionally rigged Barquentine sailing vessel, departing from Longyearbyen, Svalbard, in the High-Arctic.

When: Spring, 2025

Funding Deadlines:

Aug. 2024 - $3,425

Oct. 2024 - $3,425

Nov.-Dec. 2024 - $4,000

“This is the farthest north I’ve ever been!”

HELP SEND THIS POET TO THE ARCTIC!

As a literary artist who works between disciplines I’ve always been drawn to liminal places. As I continue to explore themes of death and regeneration, destruction and creation, I keep coming back to the central image of GERM, my manuscript in progress. A seed just as it is beginning to split and the first pale tendril starts to make its way to the surface through the rich generative darkness of the soil. What feeds us in that dark is the death of what comes before.

With the poems in this collection I am attempting to make visceral the organisms of the natural world that have always been with us but that we have distanced ourselves from to the detriment of the planet. I want to give voice to species and environments more than human and to help readers re-animate their imaginations.

Changing the way we interact with the natural world is imperative right now and is going to continue to be essential in the future. I want my work to be instrumental in that paradigm shift and am working on a poetics that disturbs. Working in the rapidly changing environment of the High-Arctic will give my work the violent urgency that the world needs right now to wake up out of its digital stupor.

All funds raised will go towards: expedition fees, cold weather gear and supplies, travel expenses and insurance.

HELP THE GERM EMERGE. Your support is greatly appreciated for this extraordinary opportunity!

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Photo Credit: The gorgeous photograph of the Antigua in Svalbard is by Barbara Putnam.