Faculty

Bhanu Kapil
MA, State University of New York, Brockport

Bhanu Kapil writes at the intersection of poetry, prose, non-fiction and a kind of irreversible yet mutable "document." What is a document? What are you here to write at all? As a teacher, Bhanu focuses on generative, experimental writing practice: making a space where the writing can evolve from deep images, watermarks of all kinds, to become a completely alive, connective, reaching thing. And what does writing extend towards, what does it touch? What does it touch in order to change, to become something else? Bhanu has written three full-length works, in an on-going attempt to answer these questions [what are your questions?] -- The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers (Kelsey Street Press, 2001), Incubation: a space for monsters (Leon Works, 2006), and Humanimal, a project for future children (forthcoming from Kelsey Street Press). Nationally, she has given readings of her work and presented lectures/panel talks on monsters, cyborgs, architecture, and hybridity; most recently as part of a CalArts conference on experimental writing at the LAMoca. Currently, she is writing a novel about delinquent chimpanzees.

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