Instructor: Jen Besemer
Jen is a hybrid artist specializing in “recombinant poetry,” often using recycled books and ephemera as both substrate and raw material. The results have been variously exhibited, performed or published, both online and in Chicago spaces like Polvo, Dream Theater, Outer Space Studio and the Milwaukee Avenue Arts Festival.

Jen is the author of several poetry chapbooks and books, including Object with Man’s Face (Rain Taxi Ohm Editions) and Telephone (Brooklyn Arts Press), and is a contributor to the anthology Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics (Nightboat). Recent magazine publications include Artifice, Aufgabe, BlazeVOX, Drunkenboat, e-ratio, Otoliths, and Pank. To learn more, visit www.jenbesemer.com.