J.I. Kleinberg
Unintentional Accident of Art
Artist Statement
These visual poems are from an ongoing series of collages (2700+) built from phrases created unintentionally through the accident of magazine page design. Each contiguous fragment of text (roughly the equivalent of a poetic line) is entirely removed from its original sense and syntax. The text is not altered (except for the occasional deletion of prefixes, suffixes, or punctuation) and includes no attributable phrases. The lines of each collage are sourced from different magazines. Rather than looking for enough words for a complete poem, I collect hundreds of fragments that I shuffle around on my table until they start talking with each other.
Line Your Pocket
She Folded You
There Are Only Ideas
An artist, poet, and freelance writer, J.I. Kleinberg lives in Bellingham, Washington, USA, and on Instagram @jikleinberg. Her visual poems have been published in print and online journals worldwide and were featured in a solo exhibit at Peter Miller Books, Seattle, Washington, in May 2022. Chapbooks of her visual poems, how to pronounce the wind (Paper View Books) and Desire’s Authority (Ravenna Press Triple Series No. 23), were published in 2023; she needs the river (Poem Atlas) was published in 2024.