Our Transduction series will be designed by Alban Fischer, typeset by David McNamara, & will open in 2013 with PLAN/K by Kristi Maxwell.

PLAN/K is a nod to the primarily fictionalized practice of walking the plank & a play on Plan B. If Plan B manages the unexpected, Plan K (“K,” conveniently the first letter of the writer’s name) cultivates the unexpected through various constraints & writing strategies. The pieces are interested in how we use the materials at hand & the ways we secure those materials in the first place. In the spirit of piracy & pilfering, Maxwell incorporates anagrams & puns, figures of speech that are often considered base or crude, tying them to popular representations of pirates, & figures that disrupt language as a system of exchange, rerouting meaning, much like goods were rerouted through piracy’s disruption of colonial trade routes. Sections also consist of “transcriptions” of popular & scholarly works, such as Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island & Iron Men, Wooden Women: Gender & Seafaring in the Atlantic World, 1700-1920, edited by Margaret S. Creighton & Lisa Norling. In these poems, Maxwell “boards” the aforementioned works, & textual violence ensues as she re-purposes the materials of language to explore issues of reading, gender, power, & the tension between violence & play.

Sample pieces from PLAN/K can be read online here.

Kristi Maxwell is the author of Re- (Ahsahta Press, 2011), Hush Sessions (Saturnalia Books, 2009), & Realm Sixty-four (Ahsahta Press, 2008), along with the chapbook Elsewhere & Wise (Dancing Girl Press). Born & raised in East Tennessee, she currently teaches at the Poetry Center, Casa Libre en la Solana, & elsewhere in Tucson.

Submissions for the Transduction series are currently by invitation only.