Zack Pieper
Zack Pieper’s work spans poetry, performance, radio, sound and visual art. Poems have appeared in Blazing Stadium, Trilobite, amongst others, and are forthcoming from The Oxeye Reader. SAME HERE, selections from a decade of poems, appeared in 2019 from Adjunct Press. He is the co-founder of Activities, an archive of sound recordings and albums, spanning several decades of midwest-based multidisciplinary artists. Annually, he creates large-scale mosaics out of thousands of ghosts drawn on post-it notes in magic marker.
The short poems that make up Buck Downs’s new collection NICE NOSE inhabit the quotidian world, the day-to-day realities right underneath our proverbial nose. Yet their flames escape being smothered by the bric-a-brac that surrounds that common hearth.
