Creative Writing

Charles Altieri

Fellow and Professor Emeritus at UC Berkeley
Charles Altieri is a primary co-founder of the Arts Research Center and was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2011– he was chosen in the Faculty Fellow category. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Charles Altieri has been primarily interested in the varieties of Twentieth Century American poetry, especially in relation to philosophy and to the visual arts. He also recently wrote a book on the affects and that shapes his thinking on most topics. But he is in transition. Altieri has been teaching Shakespeare and Hegel and...

Indira Allegra

Writer, Conceptual Artist, and Former ARC Project Coordinator
Indira Allegra gave a Visiting Writer & Panel Participant Reading at the Poetry and the Senses Launch and Conversation at the Arts Research Center on Feburary 4, 2020. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Indira Allegra is a conceptual artist and founder of Cazimi Studio. Cazimi Studio uses weaving as a framework to creatively transform tension within different sites. The studio is unique in its emphasis on performance, publication and the integration of spiritual care as preferred design solutions. Thinking as a poet,...

Menat Allah El Attma

ARC Fellow, Educator, Writer, and Visual Artist
Menat was an ARC Fellow in 2023 with the Poetry & the Senses initiative – she was chosen in the Undergraduate Fellow category. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Menat Allah El Attma is an Egyptian Muslim woman, educator, writer, and visual artist. Menat graduated from UC Berkeley with a BA in English literature and is pursuing her teaching credential. She is a logophile and linguaphile, working to affect a similar love for words/languages in her students through the practice and art of storytelling. She believes art is...

Katherine Agyemaa Agard

Writer and Interdisciplinary Artist
Katherine Agyemaa Agard gave a Visiting Writer Reading at the Arts Research Center in Fall of 2021, part of the Flash Reading Series. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Katherine Agyemaa Agard is the eldest daughter of a zoologist and a botanist. At 18, she won, and declined, an Open National Scholarship in the Natural Sciences from the government of Trinidad & Tobago. Her interdisciplinary work is rooted in painting, performance, and writing. She holds an AB in Visual and Environmental...

Kim Addonizio

Writer, Music-Maker, and Maquisard
Kim Addonizio gave a Visiting Writer Reading at the Arts Research Center in April 2021, part of the Spring 2021 Flash Reading Series. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Kim Addonizio is the author of eight poetry collections, two novels, two story collections, and two books on writing poetry: The Poet’s Companion (with Dorianne Laux) and Ordinary Genius. Her poetry collection Tell Me ...

Glenn Adamson

Curator, Writer, Historian
Glenn Adamson gave a Visiting Curator Lecture at the Arts Research Center on October 25, 2012. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Glenn Adamson is a curator, writer and historian based in New York and London. He has previously been Director of the Museum of Arts and Design and Head of Research at the V&A.

Dr. Adamson’s publications include Thinking Through Craft (2007); The Craft Reader (2010); Postmodernism: Style and Subversion (2011, with Jane Pavitt); The Invention of Craft...

Vito Acconci

Vito Acconci gave a Visiting Artist Lecture at the Arts Research Center on September 28, 2016. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Vito Acconci was a contemporary American poet, performance artist, and architect—a founder of the Performance Art movement. He has been immortalized in the canon of art history for his seminal works, including the infamous Seedbed (1971), which Marina Abramovic re-performed...

Andrea Abi-Karam

Poet-Performer Cyborg
Andrea Abi-Karam gave a Visiting Writer Reading at the Arts Research Center in April 2023, as part of the Spring 2023 Flash Reading Series. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Andrea Abi-Karamis a trans, SWANA, punk poet-performer cyborg, workshop facilitator, and activist. Their chapbook, THE AFTERMATH(Commune Editions, 2016), queers Fanon’s vision of how poetry fails to inspire revolution. Under the full...

Ayling Zulema Dominguez

2023 ARC Fellow - Poetry & the Senses
Ayling Zulema Dominguez was an ARC Fellow in Fall 2023 with the Poetry & the Senses initiative, in collaboration with Arizona State University – they were chosen in the Graduate Fellow category.

Ayling Zulema Dominguez is a poet, mixed media artist, and youth arts educator rooted in a poetics of anticolonial imagination. Their art and poetry ask who we are at our most free and what it might take to arrive there. Lyricality and reclamation of historically silenced voices and experiences inform their writing and artistry, as does abundance and collective care. They...

Reclamation Poetry Gathering with Natalie Diaz, Craig Santos Perez, and Beth Piatote

February 15, 2024
Reclamation Poetry Gathering February 15 – 18, 2024 Public Programming: February 16 – 17, 2024

A trans-Indigenous conversation, with juxtapositions that decenter European thought and begin to translate an oceanic-to-desert-to-river-to-forest poetic imaginary

Reclamation gathered 19 fellows chosen to participate in the 2023 Poetry & the Senses program for a weekend of readings, conversations, and workshops. Three readings, hosted at...