Seagull

This visual poem begins with “It is I, Seagull,” the first words spoken by the first woman in space, Valentina Tereshkova, during the space mission aboard Vostok 6 on June 16, 1963. Type design in the shape of NASA's Space Launch System, or SLS rocket, and collage with archival family photo. After Joseph Cornell. Giclée print on Hahnemuhle photo rag 308 gsm paper. Each broadside is signed and numbered by Monica Ong and comes with a certificate of authenticity.

Artist: Monica Ong
Giclée printing: Still River Editions, Danbury, CT.
Size: 12” x 18”
Edition size: 20 + 2 AP

This poem was first published in Bat City Review, Issue No. 18, as the 2021 Winner of the Editor’s Prize in Hybrid Poetry.