snap, pop, performance: a series of ekphrasis

by Ellen Chang-Richardson

Please excuse the beauty of this delectable collaboration between poet Ellen Chang-Richardson and architect and designer Isa He! Not even a sommelier could predict the palate-exploding combo of Chang-Richardson’s sprawling poems and He’s fanciful illustrations. Masters of ekphrasis, Chang-Richardson and He meditate on the work of fellow artists to create a melodic, playful, and perceptive performance that at once unsettles and unfetters the imagination.

She fancy, too: this chapbook is printed on white paper with SHIMMERY cardstock cover. Lovingly designed and typeset by Kate Siklosi.

Ooooh. Ahhhh.

$2 from every purchase of snap, pop, performance went to the 1492 Land Back Lane Legal Fund.

17 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2020

About the author

Ellen Chang-Richardson is an award-winning poet of Taiwanese and Chinese Cambodian descent. The author/co-author of five poetry chapbooks, their multi-genre writing has appeared in Room magazine, Vallum Contemporary, Augur Magazine, The Fiddlehead, Anti-Heroin Chic, and more. They sit on the editorial boards of long con magazine and Room, and currently live on the traditional unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg (Ottawa, Ontario) where they co-curate Riverbed Reading Series and write collaboratively as part of the poetry collective VII. Their debut collection, Blood Belies, is out with Buckrider Books (an imprint of Wolsak & Wynn) in Spring 2024.