“The Poetic Kosmos of Phoebe Giannisi” intends to explore the syntactical dialog found in Giannisi’s work, especially that which connects the panels of the triptych, the “hinges” of how, and why, Giannisi gets her art done. Acoustics, elation, Instagram selfies, the charisms of chance encounter, the monosyllabic magic of a vowel joined by a consonant, and the music of hyperbole---all endemic to our own times, and yet hailing from the depths of what it means to speak Greek while speaking English (while speaking Greek), with the whirlwind of this and of these transforming from poetry, to review, to theatre-piece.

Joseph Byrd is a writer and composer from Portland, Oregon. A 2025 Best Small Fictions winner, he is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music, a Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and Nina Riggs poetry award nominee, and was long listed for the Erbacce prize. He was in the StoryBoard Chicago cohort with Kaveh Akbar, and was an Associate Artist in Poetry under Joy Harjo at the Atlantic Center for the Arts. He serves as a Poetry Editor for The Plentitudes, and recently finished his first novel as a Fellow in Fiction through the Attic Institute’s Atheneum master writing program.