The broadsheet is a takeaway for visitors and an important visual element of the exhibition, wheat-pasted to the wall. In the second iteration, the verso side of the sheet is dedicated to exploring ways of thinking about rest. The following poets and writers reflect on and respond to an excerpt from Ovid:
Anthony Acciavatti is an architect, researcher, and associate professor at Yale University. He is the author of Ganges Water Machine: Designing New India’s Ancient River and a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome as well as a Senior Fellow at the American Institute of Indian Studies. His work investigates climate change, groundwater extraction, and how the pursuit of water reshapes cities, agrarian landscapes, and patterns of settlement worldwide. For his research, Acciavatti designs and builds his own tools to measure land, soil, and infrastructure.
Dan Curley is a professor of Classics at Skidmore College. His teaching and research focus on Latin poetry of the late Republic and early Empire, Roman and Greek drama (especially tragedy), classical myth on screen, and ancient biography and life-writing. He is the author of numerous articles and books, including Tragedy in Ovid: Theater, Metatheatre, and the Transformation of a Genre and his own volume of poetry, Conditional Future Perfect: Poems.
Chloë Honum is a poet, essayist, and associate professor of English and Creative Writing at Baylor University. She is the author of The Tulip-Flame, winner of the Cleveland State University Poetry Center First Book Prize. Her writing explores grief, solitude, and forms of rest that emerge outside of sleep, attending closely to feelings, memory, and the shifting presence or absence of others.
Kim Rosenfield is a poet and psychotherapist living and working in New York City. Her work has been included in numerous poetry anthologies, and she is the author of seven books of poetry including Lividity (2012), USO: I’ll Be Seeing You (2013) and most recently Phantom Captain (2023). She is the former co-editor of Object Magazine and a founding member of Collective Task. Her playful, despairing, ribald, exuberant poetry gives us glimpses of our fractured world, a journey through the fun-house mirror of the human psyche.
Jacob Shores-Argüello is a Costa Rican-American poet and the author of In the Absence of Clocks and Paraíso, which received the inaugural CantoMundo Poetry Prize. His work engages questions of heritage, language, and belonging, often shaped by transnational experience. He is a recipient of the Fulbright Fellowship and has held fellowships from Princeton University and the Lannan Foundation. A 2024–2025 Rome Prize winner in Literature, his work appears in The New Yorker, Poetry magazine, and publications of the Academy of American Poets.
Emilio Vavarella is an artist, researcher, and assistant professor of Media and Film Studies at Skidmore College. His work examines the intersection of life, technology, and systems of control, often merging theoretical research with artistic practice. Across his projects, Vavarella considers how technological systems shape everyday experience, embodiment, and conditions of agency. Vavarella has exhibited internationally, including at the 18th Venice Biennale International Architecture Exhibition, and in museums in Rome, Madrid, London, Brussels, and St. Petersburg. He was an artist-in-residence at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard from 2022–2024.
