Poetry

Eros / ion

by Carolina Ebeid |

 

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Carolina Ebeid holds a PhD from the University of Denver and has had fellowships from CantoMundo, the Stadler Center, Lannan Foundation Residency, and the National Endowment of Arts. She teaches at Regis University’s MFA program and helps edit poetry at the Rumpus and Visible Binary.
“Eros / ion” takes inspiration from a home movie from Ebeid’s childhood. The transcript of the VHS, assembled on the page to look like TV static snow, features snippets of a conversation her parents had about her mother’s face having a “good side” in photographs. The poem, says Ebeid, “could be read as a kind of score for the technological noise of memory.”

This poem is part of the Poetry Curator Series and is selected by January curator Octavio Quintanilla.
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