This interview with Chris Vitiello was conducted on May 11, 2021.

Chris Vitiello is a writer, critic, and performer based in Durham. He’s also the Poetry Fox, writing over 27,000 custom, on-demand poems on vintage typewriters at events over the last eight years. He took his performance installation, “The Language is Asleep” to ArtPrize9 in 2017, where he wrote and gave away nearly 12,000 one-line poems on dictionary pages over a 28-day endurance project at the Grand Rapids Art Museum. His critical writing garnered a 2017 Rabkin Prize for Arts Journalism. More recently he’s launched the Writing Cabinet, which combines a fortune-telling cabinet with a confessional to produce responses to a visitor’s wishes, secrets, fears, and sorrows. He’s written three books of poetry, including Irresponsibility (2008) and Obedience (2012), both on Ahsahta Press.

Links:

poetryfox.com @chrisvitiello71 @thepoetryfox @thewritingcabinet

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