Call and Response
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I am always interested in how different poets approach the page and how different erasure artists approach their source texts.
In January 2025, my brilliant friend, X. P. Callahan, posted her Erasure: In the Cage of Breath, a digital text alteration and video.
Her work spoke to me, called to me. I wrote owl in response, using the same source text.
Here is the call: X. P. Callahan at Diary Poems.
And here is the source text: Carolyn Forché, “Harmolypi”


I love this conversation you are having to text and to each other. I got to work a bit with Carolyn Forché in January, too, so I feel I'm somewhere with you at a party.
Glad to join the party!