Kate Angus, Dioscuri

American, playing from New York, NY, USA

Kate Angus is a founding editor of Augury Books. Her writing has appeared in a number of literary journals and anthologies, including Indiana Review, The Rumpus, Barrow Street, Subtropics, The Awl, The Hairpin, Gulf Coast, Court Green, Third Coast, Verse Daily and Best New Poets 2010. She holds a BA from Brown University and an MFA from The New School University. A former Writer in Residence at Interlochen Arts Academy, she has also taught at Notre Dame School, The New School, LIM College and Interlochen Center for the Arts. She is the Creative Writing Advisory Board Member for The Mayapple Center for Arts and Humanities.

Thoughts on the Telephone process

This was an interesting and challenging (which I mean in the best possible way) experience. I had to curb my own tendencies to follow my lines where they wanted to go and, rather, be faithful to transcribing the visual art I was given into my own art form. This imposed restraint, rather than being stifling, forced me to open up new doors within my poem--doors I would never otherwise have found. The difficulty of the project was what was enjoyable about it: the challenge was a source of pleasure because it made me stretch in new directions.