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Monica Ong
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Two poems from A Mouth Holds Many Things: a De-Canon Hybrid Literary Collection: edited by Dao Strom and Jyothi Natarajan.
Published by Fonograf Editions on June 25, 2024.
Copyright © 2024 by Dao Strom and Jyothi Natarajan.
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Monica Ong is a visual poet and the author of Silent Anatomies (Kore Press, 2015). A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, Ong brings a designer’s eye to experimental writing with her hybrid image-poems and installations that surface hidden narratives of women and diaspora. Her poetry can be found in Scientific American, ctrl+v, and Poetry Magazine, and in the anthology A Mouth Holds Many Things: A De-Canon Hybrid-Literary Collection (Fonograf Editions, 2024).
Ong’s most recent series of astronomy-inspired visual poetry was exhibited at the Poetry Foundation and is the basis of her new book Planetaria (Proxima Vera, 2025). You can find her fine press visual poetry editions and literary art objects in over fifty distinguished institutional collections worldwide. In 2024, Ong was named a United States Artists Fellow.
A Mouth Holds Many Things is a collection of hybrid-literary works by 36 women and nonbinary BIPOC writers. Spanning experimental poetry and prose, image-text, collage, performance text, AI-generated writing, asemic writing, multimedia poetry, and more, this print anthology illuminates and expands the interstitial spaces where text blends, blurs, and morphs with visual and other media. The works in this collection explore the creative possibilities of language, and in so doing aim to challenge our precepts of reading and writing. Edited by Dao Strom and Jyothi Natarajan, A Mouth Holds Many Things is a project of the Portland-based literary-social art project, De-Canon, published in collaboration with Fonograf Editions.
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