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.

Portrait of Erica Hunt, pencil on paper by Phong H. Bui.

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.

Alison Saar, untitled woodcut, for Arcade by Erica Hunt (Kelsey St. Press, 1996).
Tonya Foster tunes the language and brings out the I, the you, the us (the most underestimated words in my opinion in English) to spin the conjoined through pronominal association, to pulse, gather, and scatter. The swarm is a sustaining force.
Illustration by Drea Cofield.
I consider James Baldwin’s essays to form part of the firmament, as critical as the North Star, guiding how true my words sound the mettle, do more than spin, and take the written journey from idea to fire.

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