Featuring a range of contemporary artists, many of whom workacross different mediums and genres, Sign & Breath introduces the reader toone page that sings in any genre  – prose,fiction, poetry, spoken word, hybrid forms, and song – across diversetraditions. Rather than define poetry as a genre with conventions, traditions,codes, and modalities, this book features poetry as a faculty that thrums inall written and spoken art. Readers are introduced to a text followed by adiscussion with the author about creating the piece, ties to creative lineage,and the definition of voice through their practice.

40+ contemporary writers and artists are within thisanthology including:  2 National BookAward Winners, an Ohio Governors’ Award Winner, NEA Fellowship Winners, the PoetLaureates of Virginia, Idaho and Vermont, and Guggenheim Fellows. Sign &Breath introduces the reader to one page that sings in any genre – prose,fiction, poetry, spoken word, hybrid forms, and song— across diversetraditions.