Ryan Van Winkle Biography
Ryan Van Winkle (born 1977, New Haven) is a poet, live artist, podcaster and critic living in Edinburgh. Originally from Connecticut, USA, he first arrived in Scotland for the turn of the millennium, and since then has made it his home. He is indefatigably active in the poetry scene there in various roles: as poet, literary promoter, journalist, and long-term member of the multi-arts collective 'The Forest'. His performance “Red Like Our Room Used to Feel” was celebrated as one of the highlights of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2012. Van Winkle’s texts are the expression of a stark, often uneasy emotional honesty. In one performance project, for example, he gave individual readings to his audience in a space that recreated his own bedroom.
An incompleteness ago:
my fingers and turpentine nails,
laser hairs standing cold.
The market of twilight,
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"I think the sea is a useless teacher"
Marie Howe, From Nowhere
How I
looked towards
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Flies land on her wrist, legs, the tips of her eyes
remind us we are alive. "Go find something dead,"
she says. And the sun is here for us, the wind
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We dreamed and a bird flew
into our bedroom window
like a heavy book
dropped in the dark.
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YELLOW ROOM
For two years
it was a bare light bulb
by the side of the bed.
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