I snapped this photo in a writers workshop I attend faithfully every week.
I have a special interest in new forms, in interarts and odd combinations of genres. I'd love to work with dance theater or new media directors or practitioners. I have a special place in my heart for Tanztheater Wuppertal and the late Pina Bausch. I feel that spirit alive in people like the director Katie Mitchell and the poet Anne Carson. Many others. On other parts of the site, I'll try to single out many of the guiding lights of my life and write a few lines about why their influence is meaningful to me. For background material, please click on "about" in the image at the top of this page.
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IChristy Sheffield Sanford is a pioneering artist and poet from the American South who specializes in born-digital writing and design. She holds an interest in “new forms, in interarts and odd combinations of genres” (“About”).
Sanford was the first Writer-in-Residence at the trAce Online Writing Centre located in Nottingham, England and has collaborated with other important writers, including Reiner Strasser and M. D. Coverley. Also collected in The NEXT. In the Archive colledtion, there are over 40 works of born-digital poetry and fiction first published in frAme, Snakeskin Poetry Webzine, Oyster Boy Review, TO: A Journal of Poetry, Prose, and Visual Arts, Grist, The Little Magazine, YLEM, and Riding the Meridian. Sanford has produced 16 books of poetry, some of which are highly collectible artists books, such as The Cowrie Shell Piece (Baroque and Rococo Strains). She notes French poet Stéphane Mallarmé as one of her main artistic influences. Sanford transferred the archives of "Red Mona" in the summer of 2019. After the reconstruction of the works, she began to transfer the rest of her archives to The NEXT in the fall 2024 to establish her collection. To view recently restored archival work, please visit The Next: the-next.eliterature.org/collections/51 To view the Sanford's trAce experience, visit: christysanford9.wixsite.com/christysheffieldsanf |
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