Who Not to Speak To
The poem “Who Not to Speak To,” by Marianne Morris, depicts the multidirectional debate of forums in a so-called “cybersphere”. Personal opinion and public voices mix together in a frenzy of online communication where “a digital mirror sputters, / the lines rage aimless / the passion is aimless.”
Research Spotlight
Dorothy Butchard discusses this poem, along with others by Zoe Skoulding and Redell Olsen, in the article ‘Secrecy, Surveillance and Poetic Data Bodies‘ (2019) for a special issue on Poetry and Secrecy in the Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry.