Poetry/Creative Writing by Stephanie Heit
Mad in America, 2023
An artistic statement about embracing bipolar as an artistic practice along with dance and writin... more An artistic statement about embracing bipolar as an artistic practice along with dance and writing, how disability constraints and openings shaped my process and the poems in PSYCH MURDERS, and the joys and necessity of community.
Tupelo Quarterly , 2022
In A Forum on Disability Poetics — curated by Christopher Salerno
Jacket2, 2022
In September/October 2020, the EcoSomatics Symposium took place at the University of Michigan — o... more In September/October 2020, the EcoSomatics Symposium took place at the University of Michigan — online in COVID times, reimagined from a three-day in-person meeting at a Michigan nature center on a restored prairie. Over three weeks, ten practitioners shared hour-long sessions with international participants. An assemblage montaged by Petra Kuppers, with Syrus Marcus Ware, Naomi Ortiz, Stephanie Heit, Lori Landau, Carolyn Roy, Christina Vega-Westhoff, Michele Minnick, Denise Leto, moira williams, Catherine Fairfield, andrea haenggi and bull thistle leaf, DJ Lee, Megan Kaminski, Charli Brissey, Bronwyn Preece, Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren, Rania Lee Khalil, and Madeline Kerslake.
Plants & Poetry Journal , 2022
mats of red stems green harbor for stagnation fast growing world our dozen ribbed leaf segments p... more mats of red stems green harbor for stagnation fast growing world our dozen ribbed leaf segments populate this underwater shallow city as we sway we bob we splay our offshore bodies multiplymultiplymultiply to the sun, photosynthesis hogs humble whorls (disguise!) fragile appearance a foil for dramatic takeover schemes (rhizomatic runner roots! regenerative properties!) oxygen hoists (byebye pickerel & minnows) (so long indigenous aquatic plants) (get lost light & visitors) inside our growing country we asphyxiate non-kin, make hassles for boats & swimmers despite "no trespassing" signs at our dense impenetrable edges such a nasty pointless business of insecticide or weevil predatory larvae or human hand removal to rid the water of us we don't go easy (we don't go at all!) our occupation survivalist, willful, a surreal exhibition of power in abstract wavy spirograph arms entwined to embrace sky our destiny cosmopolitan distribution epicenters of our kind Eurasian Watermilfoil (Myriophyllum spicatum) by Stephanie Heit Stephanie Heit is a queer poet, dancer, and teacher of somatic writing and contemplative movement practices. She is a Zoeglossia Fellow, bipolar, and a member of the Olimpias, an international disability performance collective.
Zoeglossia Poem of the Week, 2022
Cid Pearlman Performance Website, 2021
About Place Journal, 2021
Venti Journal, 2021
This work, “dear water,” was written on the shorelines and in the waters of Benzie County Michiga... more This work, “dear water,” was written on the shorelines and in the waters of Benzie County Michigan documenting through somatic engagement the effects of Lake Michigan’s rising waters.
Zoeglossia poem of the week, 2021
"Solar Eclipse" is a poem from the hybrid memoir manuscript, Psych Murders, and explores my exper... more "Solar Eclipse" is a poem from the hybrid memoir manuscript, Psych Murders, and explores my experience of bipolar extreme mind states.
The Hard Work of Hope, 2021
Rogue Agent, 2021
"(in)voluntary" is poem from the hybrid memoir manuscript, Psych Murders, which engages with a ti... more "(in)voluntary" is poem from the hybrid memoir manuscript, Psych Murders, which engages with a time period in my life of multiple psychiatric hospitalizations and treatments, including shock.
Hello Goodbye Apocalypse, 2020
Song of Myself, 2019
Song of Myself – A New Curation for Poetry Jukebox
An international edition of poems by d/Deaf &... more Song of Myself – A New Curation for Poetry Jukebox
An international edition of poems by d/Deaf & Disabled poets curated by poets Alice McCullagh & Maria McManus. This is the text and audio of the piece that is installed in poetry jukeboxes in Belfast, Ireland.
https://jukebox-song-of-myself.blogspot.com/p/stephanie-heit.html
Wordgathering, 2019
Zoeglossia is a new literary organization for disabled poets. The inaugural fellows had their res... more Zoeglossia is a new literary organization for disabled poets. The inaugural fellows had their residency in May 2019 in San Antonio, TX. This piece is a collection of responses to the experience by fellows and faculty.
In Corpore Sano, 2019
Field notes and poetry from the hybrid memoir manuscript, Psych Murders, which engages with a tim... more Field notes and poetry from the hybrid memoir manuscript, Psych Murders, which engages with a time period in my life of multiple psychiatric hospitalizations and treatments, including shock. This is part of the web and print series, In Corpore Sano: Creativity and Disability.
Anomaly, 2018
"Window Dressing" is poem from the hybrid memoir manuscript, Psych Murders, which engages with a ... more "Window Dressing" is poem from the hybrid memoir manuscript, Psych Murders, which engages with a time period in my life of multiple psychiatric hospitalizations and treatments, including shock.
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Poetry/Creative Writing by Stephanie Heit
An international edition of poems by d/Deaf & Disabled poets curated by poets Alice McCullagh & Maria McManus. This is the text and audio of the piece that is installed in poetry jukeboxes in Belfast, Ireland.
https://jukebox-song-of-myself.blogspot.com/p/stephanie-heit.html
An international edition of poems by d/Deaf & Disabled poets curated by poets Alice McCullagh & Maria McManus. This is the text and audio of the piece that is installed in poetry jukeboxes in Belfast, Ireland.
https://jukebox-song-of-myself.blogspot.com/p/stephanie-heit.html
Heit survives to give readers access to this somatic, visceral rendering of a bipolar life complete with sardonic humor, while showing us the dire need for new paradigms of mental health care outside closets, attics, prisons, and wards. Psych Murders adds a vital layer of lived experience of electroshocks and suicidal ideation to the growing body of literature of madness and mental health difference.
—Michael Northen
~Ally Day
Theatre Topics. 26: 2, July 2016. p. 221-237.