<h1> The body is. The body is not. What is the body when it is not the body? What can a body be when it is not the body? Is the body ever just the body? What is the body even when we claim it is not the body? </h1> <h2> This is what I […]
Amanda Hodes
AMANDA HODES is a writer and new media artist. She is a Lecturer of Poetry in Creative Writing at Oberlin College & Conservatory. Her poetry has been published in Black Warrior Review, Prairie Schooner, Pleiades, AMBIT, Denver Quarterly, PANK, West Branch, and elsewhere. As an artist, she is interested in sound installation as a route to a somatic, spatial poetics. Her new media work has been exhibited in venues such as the Crisp-Ellert Art Museum, Torpedo Factory, Abington Arts Center, Hirshhorn Sound Scene Festival, Ammerman Center for Arts & Technology, AUDIRE, and Dartington International Music Festival. She is a recipient of a 2021 writing residency at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity and was a finalist for the 2023 Sappho Prize for Women Poets. She has also been supported by the Arts Club of Washington, Koster Foundation, Salzburg Summer Academy of Fine Arts, and the Fulbright Commission. She also has an MFA in Creative Writing from Virginia Tech and an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia.
