po(L)em(IC): A Manifesto

by Patrick Johnston

Artist’s Statement: po(L)em(IC): A Manifesto, a hybrid poetic salvo that aims to detonate the false binaries between sincerity and satire, manifesto and meme, poetry and punchline. It is both a critique of poetic pretension and a celebration of the anarchic impulse behind language itself.

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BIO: Dr. Pat Johnston is a poet and former neuroscientist. His work appears in Love and Literature, The Argyle Literary Magazine, and other journals. He writes about memory, madness, masculinity, and myth with equal measures of reverence and demolition. He lives between Australia and Southeast Asia.