Checkerboard Shoe: Two Poets in Collaboration

Checkerboard Shoe is collaboration in language as primitive as coyotes yip-yap-yodeling together under a Rocky Mountain moon. Or maybe the polymer biting its own tail to enable reproduction back in unicellular times is just a circle of language. In-among-with-from-of humans, it’s as venerable as conversation. Join the magic in this collaborative tap dance through vocabularies!

Maureen Owen and Jack Collom collaborated in writing and teaching for many years, starting in New York at the Poetry...