Poetry. ANARCHIVE initiates an ongoing project that takes up the history of anarchist uprisings as a site for poetic archeology. ANARCHIVE investigates two propositions: that there is a necessarily familial relationship between poetry and anarchy, and that poetry is, moment by moment, built out of the inherent and sudden uprisings and insurgencies of language itself. Stephen Collis is a poet and critic who teaches literature at Simon Fraser University. He is the author of MINE, and the editor of the forthcoming COMPANIONS AND HORIZONS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF SFU POETRY.
Stephen Collis was born in British Columbia and earned a B.A. from the University of Victoria. While in his first year of the master's program at Simon Fraser University, Collis was elevated directly into the Ph.D. program. He teaches poetry, poetics, modernism, and American literature at SFU and lives in Tsawwassen.