Abby Romine

Amy Osella

Cat Delapena

Jake Pittore

Juliette Demoor M.

Krissy Williams

Ollie Wade

Patrick Hill

Vivian Lee

this pressure cooker living
my brain juice spilling

WELCOME 2 OUR

8 word bios of our miniature lives...

it’s just like my face
is my birthmark

an individual willing to
show the world everything

patrick hill is just
happy to be here

Claire Donato

in a world where
nothing makes sense anymore

here's my childhood paper
mouse, Yvonne Biossi [sic].

an elf warrior perched
in an olive tree

i want to be
eloquent but ya know

a trial and error
from a systemic wasteland

a collector of glimpses
and other cute objects

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TINY

OUR TINY WORLD is a zine created by Pratt Institute's Fall 2021 Small Worlds, Miniature Forms students, led by Professor Claire Donato.

In the wake of COVID-19 shrinking our worlds to infinitesimal Zoom rectangles and abbreviated cities, this cross-disciplinary poetics laboratory will consider the miniature, the diminutive, and the microcosm vis-à-vis questions of imagination, perspective, and scale. Together, we will render tiny forms: aphorisms, haiku, koans, Twitter novels, one-word poems, flash fiction, crônicas, and miniature books. We will also conjure hyper-detailed descriptions, petite protagonists, and textual dollhouses. Like the moon, the miniature is both very big and very small; or, as Gaston Bachelard writes in The Poetics of Space: “If a poet looks through a microscope or a telescope, he always sees the same thing.” Bring your own magnifying glass.

Special thanks to Ollie Wade for capturing our miniature forms to create the home page image map.

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