Michael Cavuto
Michael Cavuto is a poet living between Durham, NC and New York City. His books include Country Poems (Knife Fork Book, 2020) and Pyre, forthcoming from Spiral Editions in 2025. He is a founding editor of auric press and the Slow Poetry in America Newsletter.
At the heart of Lucía Hinojosa Gaxiola's The Telaraña Circuit is a poetics of mediumship: of the poet-artist’s role in activating latent potentialities between media for composing new sensorial realities, and of the poet herself as a conduit or resonator of experiential forms that traverse the ordinary temporal and spatial coordinates of the human environment.
Treasure is remarkable in the way that Nguyen’s unique poetics of mostly short lines and fragmentary images scattered across the page with rhythmic ease opens into a mosaic of narratives that move between her own life, her mother’s, and mythic realms where the dislodged ghosts of unrealized futures and cultural pasts speak and insist their presence.
Mike Cavuto is a poet from Philadelphia currently living in Brooklyn. He is a founding member of the Toronto-based pure sound collective Sex Panic! With Dale Smith and Hoa Nguyen, he edits the Slow Poetry in America Newsletter.