About
Nicholas Syrianus Katsafanas
... is a poet perhaps tyrannically dedicated to form. Drawing from the Fibonacci sequence, category mathematics, and microtonal music he's currently creating new American meters for long-form poems.
Central to the structure of his mature poems is the idea of an extended line that's measured symmetrically in relation to itself, with successive lines arranged in terms of a range of quotients.
Katsafanas's most recent books focus on the characters of Final Fantasy 7 attempting to posit a virtual metaphysics in the Remake edition of their game (The Madness of a Cloud), remote viewers speaking at length to so-called inanimate objects (Mechanism & Dialogue), and stand-ins for obscure contemporary Greek theologians positing their polemical views on the world (Metropolis + Isosceles).
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He operates BVR with his wife Katreena on the West End of Providence RI.
Katreena Dayacap
... is a poet whose output, if she'd ever listened to a Cap'n Jazz playlist, would certainly earn her the title of "Queen of Emo". Her poems are unabashedly Gothic, pulling the reader into the gruesome vicissitudes that are so often associated with being a human being.
Her first collection of poems, Just A Box of Souvenirs, was published in 2016 and her most recent book, Blue Hydrangea, is scheduled to release in 2025 - the latter representing an artist's outlook on the loss of a parent, on exile in a foreign land of your own ancestors.
Katreena is also an accomplished spoken word poet, having performed regularly at various venues with a soft-spoken style that routinely captivates whichever room in which it echoes.