Twisted Pair: An Experiment in Collaborative Poetry

by Donna M. Marbach, David Tilley

Twisted Pair is a collaboration between two poets. It is an act of language where poetry bends back on itself. The name comes from the public language of Network Technology. In particular it refers to a cabling technique in which a pair of twisted wires cancels out external electromagnetic interference. The term also implies the Double Helix, the structure of DNA which allows crossover and mutation in evolution. This is most certainly what happens in the poetry contained in this collection. Last but not least, Twisted Pair refers to the poets themselves, for we are certainly a pair of twisted poets.

32 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2010

About the author

Donna M. Marbach runs a small press called Palettes and Quills and has published non-fiction, fiction, and poetry in a variety of anthologies and periodicals. She has previously been the poetry editor of the national writers' magazine, By-Line and has also edited for FootHills Press. She is a co-founder and past president of Just Poets Inc. a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the celebration of poetry and poets (www.justpoets.org).

Her poetry has appeared in both print and on-line journals including Blueline, Hazmat Review, Homestead Review, Quercus Review, Sea Stories, The MacGuffin, The Red WheelBarrow, Silk Road, The Tipton Poetry Review, Limestone, Willow Swept Review, Halfway Down The Stairs, Breadcrumb scabs, The Southern California Review, The Chaffey Review, and more.