PROXIMA VERA

MONICA ONG [2006, MFA Digital + Media]

Based in Trumbull, CT

Proxima Vera is a micropress specializing in visual poetry broadsides, literary art objects, and digital editions. Distinct in design and playful innovation, these unique works reside within distinguished institutional and private collections worldwide. Monica Ong, founder, is a visual poet and the author of Silent Anatomies (2015), winner of the Kore Press First Book Award in poetry. A Kundiman poetry fellow and RISD graduate, Ong innovates on text+image to surface hidden narratives of women and diaspora. Ong’s practice of poetry off the page engages communities of all cultures and disciplines at the intersection of art and literature.

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