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Born Presents 417 · 903, 2011
author: Born / Anmarie Trimble
artist: Belle & Wissell / Scott Benish

Retrospective Book Preview: Born has curated and published 417 projects with 903 collaborators since its inception in 1996. This book preview begins to tell...

Like Wings Abandoned, 2011
author: Paul Gibbons
artist: Doyon-Rivest

Staff Pick: We were both struck with the effort it must have taken to create this interpretation. And it’s a disconcerting piece, but we mean that in a positive ...

Whether it Suffered,
Or It Did, 2010
author: April Kopp
artist: Dave Selden

Staff Pick: Seeing the final interpretation of this piece, I was stunned by the unexpected, by the originality and intensity of the craft that went into its...

Look Through a Complex Eye and
See 1000 of Everything, 2010
author: Zachary Schomburg
artist: Layne Braunstein

Staff Pick: The short poem can be hazardous, especially when artifice overtakes content and risk gets abandoned. I chose this poem in part because I’ve a w...

And The Ship Sails On, 2009
author: Joel Brouwer
artist: IF/THEN

Staff Pick: When receiving IF/THEN’s interpretation of Joel Brower’s poem, I was surprised because it entirely does away with text. Instead there are two voi...

Outrances, 2009
author: Thomas Crofts
artist: Lit Fuse

Staff Pick: I wanted to publish “Outrances” the moment it crossed my desk but was afraid it would be a challenge on the screen, too verbally weird or esoteric o...

Zoology, 2009
author: Sasha West
artist: Ernesto Lavandera

Staff Pick: I love the design of this piece—it’s subtle and restrained aesthetically, yet deeply engaging. The circles start off as decorative, with shapes tha...

Five Kinds of Weather Roll Across Texas, 2008
author: Stefi Weisburd
artist: Jason Doherty

Staff Pick: I get the sense in this piece that the designer was really able to dig in—the visuals are drenched in the tone of the poem, creating a sense of l...

The Blank Missives, 2007
author: Esther Lee
artist: Chris Erickson

Staff Pick: Esther Lee’s surreal and hollowed fragments invoke the terror of speaking to the missing, likely to the dead. My reaction, first reading them on t...

He Wants To Take Your Picture, 2006
author: Susan Brown
artist: Synthetic Infatuation

Staff Pick: When I solicited this poem, I knew it would be a good fit for Born. The poem is so vivid, and I could imagine a designer enjoying the interplay of...

Tisha B'Av, 2006
author: David Harris Ebenbach
artist: Jonathan Gould

Staff Pick: I’ve always loved how this piece makes use of sound. As the voice begins to whisper the poem, footsteps echo on a wet street. How do I know the s...

Index for X and the Origin of Fires, 2006
author: Ander Monson
artist: Jer Thorp

Staff Pick: It was a challenge, I initially felt, to adapt fiction to Born, but this story by Ander Monson was the first I accepted with tremendous excitement...

"Why Do You Stay Up So Late?", 2005
author: Marvin Bell
artist: Ernesto Lavandera

Staff Pick: This is one of my very favorite Born collaborations. It’s an experiential and emotional interpretation of the poem. It takes to heart the line, “I c...

2 Blinds & A Bittern, 2005
author: Michele Glazer
artist: Zoltan Lehoczki

Staff Pick: When this interpretation was first delivered to us, it was different from anything we’d received. The layering of it created a wholly original e...

Hoops, 2003
author: Major Jackson
artist: Michael E. Cole

Staff Pick: The stylization of “Hoops” is striking in the way typography enacts the poem’s world, by the way it plays with animation. The lines wrap around the ...

Spectacular Attacks, 2003
author: Joyelle McSweeney
artist: Kevin Cornell

Staff Pick: I admire “Spectacular Attacks” for its triumph in embracing the mission of Born: marrying literary arts and interactive media. I challenge vie...

Designing A Bird From Memory in Jack's Skin Kitchen
author: Eliot Khalil Wilson
artist: Rick Mullarky

Staff Pick: I’m struck with how the images and interface combine to create the tone or feeling of a bird’s view—the way a bird turns and circles. Even the typog...

Story Problem
author: Terri Ford
artist: Erik Loyer

Staff Pick: This was one of the first media-rich, truly interactive pieces created for Born, especially in that the user’s participation within the piece is a...

Tokyo, My Love
author: Kevin Canty
artist: Andrew Bruntel

Staff Pick: When I saw the final interpretation of ‘Tokyo, My Love,’ it was a complete surprise—I was giddy! Not only did Andrew Bruntel create his own Mothra c...

Walking Together What Remains
author: Chris Green
artist: Erik Natzke

Staff Pick: When I originally selected this poem, I was moved by the poet's ironic fixation on roadside litter as an initially dubious but ultimately quite...