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Spring 2022
- From the Editors
- Brackish Water Arden Shostak
- Allens Ave. and Nonplaceness Maxwell Fertik
- Mudskipper Alisa Caira
- Diptych Shannon Rose Jones
- Black Biennial: Black W(hole) Njari Anderson
- someday i’ll love katherine fu Katherine Fu
- How Is a RISD Broken Ankle Different? Juri Kang, Alex Hoffman, and Asher White
- Follow the Herd Sophia Francesco
- Reggaetón Resiste Graciela Batista
- Tales of Fish in the Sky Brady Mathisen
- The Frictionless Plane Derek Russell
- La Pipopipette Alana Baer
- the_noise_is_noisier_than_the_city.mp3 Abdelghani Alnahawi
- Degrees of Urgency Anonymous
- in:enter blue Susie Zhu
- Indefinite Continued Progress Lydia Chodosh
- Late Christian Scott
- How to Love Something That Is Bad Asher White
- My Dad and I Are Always in New Places Samaaya Jayamaha
- This RI Gregory Ghilani Shark
- Mike Fink on the Birds of His Life Mike Fink
- Reenchantment in Restoration Madeleine Young
- Arts Education at Risk! Shana Cinquemani
In/Enter Blue
煦 (Susie Zhu)
BFA PR 2023
“in/enter blue” is a piece of music composed of two entangled poetry texts (“Composition I”
in English, “in the room there is a sea” in Chinese); it is also a piece of writing created from sounds (glass, noise, chair noise, recording memos of poetry, writing, etc.) all sampled from within the room I remained in after returning home due to COVID… What I really am thinking about is the possibility of reconstructing an abstract landscape and generating it with minimal but disturbed language … I had marveled at the expansive space that could be created from contemplation or even just dreams when physically I was kept in such a limited space (my bedroom). It is an ekphrastic effort to reproduce that expansive space … feeling or living out the space, encoding the space, and finally, leaving the space (?). Since the work includes Chinese text, I took only the Chinese part out and attached some rough translations here below (just for reference; bilingual comprehensibility is not intended/compulsory).

煦 (Susie Zhu) is a lunar poet. She is currently busy brewing *butter rabbits* in her new abode on the earth.