Poetry. "Only a coherent perception of life, informed by artistic engagement, can offer the cynic of a dark age any hope or enlightenment, and make a largely brutish, inhuman existence bearable, enabling us to interpret life's strangeness through the refined sensibility of what language pries open, allowing us to see, feel, touch and smell, if not intuit, the intimate war between perception and reality, ego and self, from which emerges the mind's meaning and purpose for existing"—Chuck Richardson.

Author City: FORT COLLINS, CO USA

Jared Schickling's poetry, criticism, translation, interview, review, collaboration, has been published or is forthcoming in The Argotist, BOMBAY GIN, Big Bridge, The Cafe Review, ECOPOETICS, EXQUISITE CORPSE, Interim, Jacket, Knock (2006 Ecolit/Green Art prize), Literary Imagination, Little Red Leaves, Matter Journal, Otoliths, Sous les Paves, Borderlands: The Texas Poetry Review, unarmed, Word For/Word, the anthology 1000 Views of "Girl Singing" and elsewhere. He has five books—AURORA, SUBMISSIONS, O, ZERO'S BLOOMING EXCURSION, and T&U& LASH YOUR NIPPLES TO A POST HISTORY IS GORGEOUS (BlazeVOX [books] 2007, 08, 09, 10, 11)—and is an editor at Delete Press (letterpress chapbooks), Eccolinguistics (mimeo), and Reconfigurations: A Journal for Poetics and Poetry / Literature and Culture (online).