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Whispering Gallery

By (author): Dani Spinosa

Experimental visual and prose poems that reimagine Greco-Roman mythology through a feminist lens.

The poems in Whispering Gallery explore the tensions between analog and digital poetics, language, and materiality. Each poem, first typed on a typewriter and then digitally manipulated, is named for a female or feminine figure (wives, daughters, monsters, mothers, muses) stalled, subdued, or caught in moments of suspension rather than heroic resolution. Paired prose poems translate these mythic figures into contemporary, intimate registers, tracing the quiet violences, care, and survival that shape lived experience.

Drawing on personal and domestic ephemera (thread, spice, old print artifacts), the collection explores repetition, distortion, and persistence as formal and thematic tools. Equal parts intimate diary, scholarly engagement, and playful experimentation, Whispering Gallery offers myth as a site of shared vulnerability, radical care, and connection.

AUTHOR

Dani Spinosa

Dani Spinosa is a poet of digital and print media, an on-again-off-again precarious professor, the managing editor of the Electronic Literature Directory, and a co-founding editor of Gap Riot Press, a feminist experimental micro-press. She has published three poetry chapbooks with No Press (Glosas for Tired Eyes, Chant Uhm, and Incessantly) and one with above/ground press (Glosas for Tired Eyes Vol. 2) and her first scholarly manuscript, Anarchists in the Academy: Machines and Free Readers in Experimental Poetry was published by the University of Alberta Press (Spring 2018). She can be found online at www.genericpronoun.com and in person in Toronto.


Reviews

“Beautiful and hypnotic, subtle and shocking, Whispering Gallery is an instant classic. Dani Spinosa’s entrancing visual poems and vulnerable, insightful prose poetry will echo through you long after you read the last page.”—Helen Hajnoczky, author of Frost & Pollen

An incredibly punk holler; all grief and anxiety and fury and exasperation

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Details

Dimensions:

84 Pages
8.8in * 6in * .2in
140gr

Published:

October 13, 2026

Publisher:

Assembly Press

ISBN:

9781998336357

Book Subjects:

POETRY / Women Authors

Language:

eng

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