AN OPERA OF POP-UP CHORUSES: INTERVIEW WITH JENNIFER SCAPPETTONE

Here at Arcadia Central we at one time envisioned a gallery of New Media works that would highlight the intersection between pastoral/environmental writing and cyberspace. Alas, this part of our project has fallen into some neglect, largely due to the technological skill sets–or lack thereof–of the editors. This in no way impinges on the wonderful work of Jennifer Scappettone, the parameters of whose work prevented us from including it in the print anthology. As a taster, here is an excerpt from “Exit 43,” from our New Media and New Works gallery:   http://arcadiaproject.net/jennifer-scappettone-exit-43/   AP: I’m interested in this idea of a poetic project as “an opera of pop-up choruses”–”opera” in the sense of work, some larger structure or texture. Could you speak a…