Whispering Gallery

Dani Spinosa is a poet, scholar, educator, writer, and a computer programmer. She is an adjunct professor, a software developer, a digital and creative project manager, a co-founding editor of Gap Riot Press, president of Canthius, the managing editor of the Electronic Literature Directory, and the author of two books: OO: Typewriter Poems (Invisible Publishing, 2020) and Anarchists in the Academy (U of Alberta Press, 2018). She lives in beautiful Wasaga Beach, Ontario.

"This is Auntie Dani writing the world as it is and has been, and as it could be, all for the sake of this new life, an opening salvo of a mentorship, offered open-hearted, without cover or expectation or bullshit."—rob mclennan"Beautiful and hypnotic, subtle and shocking, Whispering Gallery is an instant classic. Dani Spinosa's entrancing visual poems and vulnerable, insightful prose poetry will echo through you long after you read the last page."—Helen Hajnoczky, author of Frost & Pollen"An incredibly punk holler; all grief and anxiety and fury and exasperation, mind and body. Dani Spinosa ain’t keeping her voice down in this Whispering Gallery, she’s joined by a Greek chorus of semi-feral voices. Medea, Pasiphae, Cassandra, Hestia hold hands through the scary parts. Whispering Gallery is all pussy, all riot."—Derek Beaulieu, author of Do It Wrong: How to Be a Poet In the Twenty-First Century"In the captivating space of her prose poems' justified walls, Spinosa refigures the tragic heroines of Greek mythology. Her companion visual poems weave word and flesh in shades of black and red that recall a typewriter's ribbon, bedecking and binding alike Glauke and Pasiphae, along with Alkmene, Thetis, and other foremothers. These poems do not hold captive, but rather encapsulate—offering protection while revealing the ways the gazes of gods and men disastrously hemmed them in. Nuanced and complex, the voices that whisper here resonate in new and profound ways, resisting any attempt to subsume their bodies by taking back their own tongues. This is a spellbinding book."—Amaranth Borsuk, author of The Book