Poetry. "What is 'common ground?' How does it come about in a nation? In a poem? In Schickling's project, limning the portals between expression and repression, common ground is sought and thwarted, and sought again, bringing to bear the grand project of all our poetry--what does it say? How do we mean? What if a flock of our voices, civic and private, were let loose, flurrying and colliding in the echo chamber of the poem? "--Eleni Sikelianos. "Jared Schickling, the Poetry of the imagination expansive, no master, not forms that restrict, not the commercialism of print. Not the Government of Poetry, with this an anarchistic being is where all might of the elemental as a construction without end with wisdom and magic, behold begins a future"--Michael Basinski.

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).