Material Witness
A series of meditative long poems that ritualize perception as a way of maintaining kinship with the non-human world.
In Material WitnessEncouraging us to eschew nostalgia for deep presence, Machado’s poems remind us that “experience is phenomenal in its segues.”
Aditi Machado is a poet, translator, and essayist. Her second book of poems Emporium (2020) received the James Laughlin Award. Her other works include the poetry collection Some Beheadings (2017), a translation from the French of Farid Tali’s Prosopopoeia (2016), and several chapbooks the most recent of which are a long poem called now (2020) and an essay titled The End (2020). Machado’s work appears in journals like BOMB, Lana Turner, Volt, The Chicago Review, Western Humanities Review, and Jacket2. A former Poetry Editor for Asymptote, she works as an Associate Professor at the University of Cincinnati.
