Why Quantum Poetics Matters
Poetry and art, like quantum systems, exist in states of entanglement, uncertainty, and transformation. Meaning is not fixed but shifts with perspective, collapsing and reforming like a wave in motion.
Entangled Verses: Poetry and Art on the Quantum Edge explores this intersection—where language and image defy singular truths, where observation alters the work itself, and where creativity thrives in the unknown. This online journal is for those who embrace instability, paradox, and the infinite unfolding of meaning.
James Knight
Three Visual Poems that explore the paradoxical apparent stability of our physical
world, through the lens of quantum volatility and flux.
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Yann Oehl
ai "artist" | meta-plagiarist | synthographer | anti-fascist | unreliable narrator | pariah | reluctant poet | unintentional curator | intentional fool
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K. A. Wisniewski
K. A. Wisniewski is a writer, printer, and visual artist from Baltimore, MD. He is the Director of Textshop Experiments and teaches writing and digital studies at the University of Maryland College Park.
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William Garvin
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I am a multidimensional healing artist who uses emerging technologies and my art to create immersive new realities. By combining my spoken word to prompt base images with my music and recordings of my spoken word, and incorporating my physical paint pour works turned into animated digital patterns (often with additional XR components), my art transcends physical, digital, and is immersive.My pieces are connected to multiple anthology themes, especially "Wave-Particle Duality: Transformation, Contradiction, and Emergence." As I often say, “It’s all Alchemy.” By blending various forms with my healing intentions, I acknowledge that we all possess light, darkness, and everything in between. I encourage others to choose which energies they lead with and want to attract. My Energy Guardian Queens, in any form, are rooted in the ability to transform and charge our energies.
Erik Buzenberg
My fascination with Quantum Computing is partly spiritual and physical. In Buddhist meditation, which I practice, there is a technique of focusing on breathing and using it as an anchor to keep attention on what is happening right now. Breathing in and out is an act of exchange between two very different beings, mammals and plants. In quantum computing, unlike classical computing, there is an exchange between states of only 0 or only 1, only off or only on. So when I walk along the Mississippi River, I see this act of exchange between two differences taking place every second along the shoreline, where the river meets the ground. And just like in breathing and quantum computing, the river and ground do not meet in an exact, frozen, static point, but constantly flux. These two works use the meeting of river and ground as a way to illustrate the quantum nature of exchange and change.
Mike Ferguson
My TextArt work is usually prompted by found ideas, and in researching quantum physics/quantum mechanics, I came across 'double slit experiment' which seemed apt for the process of generative TextArt as both a literal representation (using that line) and the experimental nature of transitions of this on the page.
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You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
-Ray Bradbury
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Malicious Sheep
Malicious Sheep is a Multidisciplinary Artist, Photographer, Vocalist, Poet, Community Scientist, Disability and Environmental Justice Advocate as well as a Community Organizer for Teia DAO LLC which is a non-profit volunteer powered and community owned marketplace on Tezos. They are multiply Disabled CIND Artist (Chronically Ill, Immunocompromised, Neurodivergent, Disabled) and Queer from rural Canada.
Their connection to the topic has been a throughline throughout their life, unfolding and expanding as they grow. Their way of processing the world is non-linear, fractal and palimpsestic. They are an Autodiadact that explores themes of biomimetics and synesthetic, temporal and interdependent systems through pattern, palette, rhythm and intersectional experience. They have a deep connection to both STEM and Art and how both world intersect and influence policy, particularly as related to environmental and equity experience.
I Love True:
This piece explores an original and experimental palimpsestic poetry form design which holds multiple temporal and perception potentials, each bracket type denotes a different state - all of which are superpositioned and entangled within the piece. Five pieces exist within one; <>, (), [], the text foundation absent any bracket components, and all four simultaneously. Each layer provides new meaning through it's unique frame. The monochromatic photograph and text colour interplay between light and dark and features a Frost Grape vine reaching towards the sun.
* Further iterations of how this piece may be experienced will be explored through other mediums and learning styles in future.
Can You Hear It?:
This audio-visual piece explores synesthetic, temporal and spatial experience and guides the observers' experience of this piece. The accompanying monochromatic photograph explores the perceived chaos of natural order in shape and form through various grasses woven together in the wild.
* The text and audio are combined for accessibility as some observers may not have full access to experiencing sound and/or visuals.
Stephan Wagner
As a dinosaur from the pre-digital age, I create all my poems and texts manually with analog techniques: stamps, ink, watercolours, or typewriter - but then benefit from our interconnected multimedia environment to dialogue with visual poets and readers across the world: joyful networks of resistance and inventiveness in these crazy times. Waves, particles, phrases, letters, all can pop up spontaneously, leave their trace, and disappear again.
Without ever having dared the jump into professional physics, all things quantum have fascinated me for decades - and for all this time, I've tried on and off to find poetic expressions for these concepts.
About ten years ago I came across an old cult classic from the strange frontier between theoretical physics and New Age: Bob Toben's "Space Time and Beyond" (new edition 1982). There's a lot of late-hippie nonsense in this small book, but also a few cool poetic musings about what quantum physics and our mind have to do with each other. The two poems for this submission take up two sentences from this book: "there is no beginning there is no end there is only change" (p.24) and "the flow from beyond the space time moves in both directions". Both poems explore visually the wave-particle/phrase-letter duality. Side by side, they're "1" and "0". They're stamped by hand on white paper, then scanned at 300dpi.
Stephen Woolley
Stephen Woolley is a North Somerset based artist who collages using the photocopied scraps he collects from his day job in a print shop, and draws the places he goes and the things he sees on his day-to-day journeys. He occasionally self publishes art zines, has exhibited internationally and locally, including at Bath’s 44ad gallery.
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Brian Bruso
Interestingly this poem came out of a prompt from fellow poet Todd Dillard early last year. The exercise had something to do with asking & answering questions. There might’ve been something else, but my brain had already become fixated with scrambling my most lucid memories of the entirety of a 30 year love affair which abruptly ended after a short battle with cancer. If anything I was reaching for the feeling of everything sliding sideways based on its pacing. I felt like I was in an alternate reality while drafting and this feeling became articulated within the poem itself.
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The Lexical Rorschach Test
When did the hallucinations begin?
somewhere between abandoning virginity
and the frostbite of heartbreak.
Specifically, how did they present?
flesh of three poems, several
tantric nightmares and ramblings
fraught with desperate incoherence.
Has your psyche repaired itself?
this is when I learned a sea star can have
twenty five arms, of which each has over
one hundred podia of tubular water
balloon feet in minutiae (no digits).
Is that a yes?
to repair implies rupture, visible
sutures, scar continually fading,
only purplish zig zags hold
together heartache and smoldering tissue
meant for inclusion with a former life.
Do you believe in superpositions?
multiple loves in a myriad of multi-
dimensional indifferences determined
to survive nucleic helicase disruptions
while balancing on strung out heliopause
zephyrs, awaiting the translucent
truth of true and timeless devotion.
How has love disenfranchised you?
sleep-wandering amongst golden
hued labradors panting for plaudits,
simultaneously scavenging for bones
conspicuously buried for centuries beneath
cobblestone paths meandering beneath
elderly elms longing for their leaves.
Is your psyche permanently transformed?
starfish perpetually enliven its limbs,
stretching limits outward, radially
challenging concepts of the appearance
of larval galaxies, sequestration riddled
fortunes of sand dollars and sharks.
At what point are memories forgotten?
when both hippocampus and neocortex
fail to repair their synapses with total
lack of compassion as to furthering
celluloid imagery displayed consciously.
Can forgiveness bring solace?
eclipsing our mini-moon in mid winter
Chicago, deep dish lovers lost at the Green
Mill as proposals drip like silver slivers.
When did the hallucinations end?
9:10 Halloween night,
no treaters, no candy, no breath — left.
Nick Piombino
Nick Piombino is a Brooklyn poet, essayist, artist and psychotherapist. He has been associated with poets from both the NewYork School of the 1960s and the Language Poets of the 1970s. His books include: Mnemonic Trains (collaboration with Laura Kerr, Penteract), Contradicta: Aphorisms (from Green Integer, with illustrations by Toni Simon), fait accompli (Heretical Texts), Free Fall (Otoliths), Theoretical Objects (Green Integer), The Boundary of Blur (Roof) and Poems (Sun and Moon).
