Erica Hunt
Erica Hunt is the author of Jump the Clock (2020); Veronica: A Suite in X Parts (2019); Piece Logic (2002); Arcade (1996); and Local History (1993). Hunt is the co-editor with Dawn Lundy Martin of Letters to the Future, Black Women/Radical Writing (2018). Recent work includes collaborations with composers Marty Ehrlich, Ingrid Laubrock and Myra Melford. New work with composer John Aylward is forthcoming in 2026.
This month’s Critics Page features eighteen poets and visual artists responding to a call for hybrid poems that place poetry and image in generative encounters. Together, they blur the boundary between the read and the seen, joining each—text and image—into a sum greater than their individual parts.
Erica Hunt is a poet, essayist, and author. She is the poetry editor of the Brooklyn Rail.
Alison Saar is a Los Angeles-based artist whose work explores the multiplicity of African diasporic experiences and Black female subjectivity.


