Voiced Visual Poem

by Kara Pernicano

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Kara Laurene Pernicano (she/they) is a multidisciplinary artist and poet-critic, routinely working in erasure, collage, comics, improv dictation and poetic monologue. Kara has a MFA from Queens College and a MA from the University of Cincinnati, and she is an incoming PhD student in Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies at Stony Brook University. She has performed for New York Theatre Workshop, Poetic Theater Productions and the Poetry Society of New York. Her work has been included in various literary magazines and gallery exhibitions, including Snapdragon, Waccamaw, The Humanities in Transition, Full Stop, the winnow magazine, ang(st), Passengers Journal, the Whitney Staff Art Show and LIC Artists’ Plaxall Gallery. She teaches at CUNY and curates a creative series Why Open Pandora’s Box on Zoom. When not writing or drawing, Kara serves as a Voice Actor for Passengers Journal and Experimental Editor for Patchwork Lit Mag. She has also served on grant panel review committees for Queens Council of the Arts and Flushing Town Hall.