Do not mistake this desert

 

 

Jeff Russell is a poet living in Durham, North Carolina. The text from this selection is the beginning of the opening multi-voiced sequence from By the Time this Reaches You forthcoming from Selva Obscura Press. Selections of this work have appeared in Miracle Monocle, Entropy, Dream Pop Press and Titled House.

Nora Zubizarreta is a filmmaker based in Durham, NC. She received her BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. While at Tisch she produced Umama, a film that went on to win gold at the Student Academy Awards. She has since worked professionally in film and television production. Nora is now pursuing her MFA at Duke in Experimental and Documentary Arts.

(w/Joseph Donahue, Laura Jaramillo, and Marta Nunez Pouzols)