Discover rare digital art and collect NFTs. 

Since Apr. 2018.

KnownOriginDigitalAsset

A poem by award-winning poet Ana Maria Caballero.

Caballero's writing has won the Beverly International Prize for Literature, Colombia's Jos Miguel Arango National Poetry Prize + been a finalist for the Academy of American Poets Prize.

Her digital art was exhibited at Dreamverse and was awarded a Sevens Foundation grant. Her NFTs are available via Fort Gallery NFT, MONOGRAMA NFT Gallery, Async.Art, Foundation, Etherpoems, HEN.

anamariacaballero.com

++

THE NAPKIN TRICK is part of BLUE PRINTS, a closed collection of five poems that subtly responds to the concept of a "roadmap" vis  vis the creative process. Rather than asking where art may lead, Caballero invites readers to consider where art comes from by sharing her own poetic practice.

The media-rich poems in Caballero's BLUE PRINTS collection are linked graphically but also thematically. Each poem approaches the question of what drives literary creation from a different perspective, but, in all, inevitability is palpable.

For Caballero, writing is not a matter of choice or of destination--instead, writing is her blueprint, at once the origin, essence and design of her being.

++

The Napkin Trick

Its happened before:

the intention for conversation
starts with a deliberate walk
toward an animated block
with a light purse & empty pocket.

(The night, after all, 
should only call for some cash.)

But when the bar is chosen,
you halt to study its doors.

Reluctance offers an option:

you hunt instead for isolated 
drinks and a borrowed pen 
with which to forget 
the disco music from a car

(circling the block 
in search of a parking spot)

on the front and back
of a red paper napkin.