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Oli Peters



Watching the improvised invented language monologue in Furía
            Furía is a contemporary dance piece created and performed by choreographer Lia Rodrigues’ Companhia de Danças

Enter stage loin-wet. Underwear distended & glistening     from within. Find
light, mark. Stand. Reach                               yank bloodpurple organ from crotch, hoist &

            re-sound sound tongue tilted toward freedom mouth not
            a mimetic mouth a
            non mouth a un-inform whorl of future re-form non mouth a letter agonizer bleat pure un-word un-word un-word
            re-sound past mass production of sound into declaration of sound a
                                                                                                                         inimitable tilt
                                                                                            sound not not free in the -izing of tongue & mouth—irre-peat——

I hear no thing / I hear raw. Was it the exalted fluid me. Did it in you? Was I in it you? Word is
raw organ crotchbirth yanked from
glistening loinwetunder——
                                              Word is fuming drum is I is hoisted livid.


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Oli Peters' writing appears in Annulet, DIAGRAM, MQR Mixtape, and Pleiades. Her dance piece Body Glyph State was performed at the 2025 Iowa Choreography Festival. Her manuscript, Spell drive an elegy, was a finalist for the Noemi Press Book Award. She has received support from the Sewanee Writers' Conference and the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop. She has an MFA from the University of Notre Dame. She lives in Minneapolis, where she edits for Spout Press.

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