Convivialities is a collection of dialogues with contemporary writers and artists conducted over great distances and extended periods of time. These conversations – with Dana Michel, Gail Scott, Joshua Clover and Jasper Bernes, Shanzhai Lyric, Divya Victor, Carlos Soto Román, Cecily Nicholson, Kevin Davies, The Culture and Technology Discussion and Working Group, Tanya Lukin Linklater, Raven Chacon, and Ryan C. Clarke – focus on poetics, both the theory of poetry (its forms, histories, and critical categories) and the theory of poiesis (i.e., making). The dialogues vary. Some are chatty, others theoretical. They model how we might talk, think, and listen together, both to one another and to the sites and greater communities where we are situated. Convivialities investigates how the collected writers and artists craft their works, the contexts in which they make them, the intellectual and artistic histories that inspire their own ways of working, and the cultural issues that are at the core of their practices. And, perhaps most of all, it asks how they continue to create in a world ravaged by climate crisis, economic crisis, settler colonialism, and imperialism.

Michael Nardone is a poet and editor based in Montréal. Never settling on a single genre, practice or mode, his works often explore and experiment within histories of literature, techniques of embodied performance, and cultures of mediation. Nardone’s recent and forthcoming works include: *Aural Poetics* (an edited work on sound and composition across the arts), *Convivialities* (a book of dialogues), *Yellow Towel: A Score* (a collaboration with Dana Michel), *Border Tuner | Sintonizador Fronterizo* (a monograph on Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, co-edited with Edgar Picazo), the Documents on Expanded Poetics book series (which he co-edits with Nathan Brown), *The Transatlantic Conversation* (a translation of Abigail Lang’s monograph on contemporary French and US poetry), and *The Ritualites* (a book of poems), as well as a range of essays and editorial works concerning the literary arts and other inscriptive practices. Beginning in 2024, he is a writer-in-residence at the SETI Institute.

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