Joe Nasta

Joe (ze/zir) is a queer multimodal artist and writer who works in Seattle and writes love poems. Ze is one half of the art and poetry collective Eat Yr Manhood, engineer for The Boiler, and head curator of Stone Pacific Zine.

Seattle, WA, United States

Books

Book cover of I want you to feel ugly, too by Joe Nasta

I want you to feel ugly, tooExplores masculinity, romance addiction, pop culture saturation, performance of sexuality, internet-bound bodies, and queerness.2021

Chapbooks

Book cover of saltsong fragments by Joe Nasta

saltsong fragmentsCollage, poem fragments, the ocean Napier, New Zealand2018

Book cover of a picture of yr body but only the pieces that you like by Joe Nasta

a picture of yr body but only the pieces that you likeVisual poetry, collage, multimedia art and poems by Joe Nasta2020

Book cover of Poems about America/Poems about an American in Mexico by Joe Nasta

Poems about America/Poems about an American in Mexicopoetry zine written by Joe Nasta while in residency at 360 Xochi Quetzal November 20202023

Book cover of New River by Joe Nasta

New RiverThis is a chapbook of poems about the New River and two friends finding themselves in its Gorge.2016

Selected work (15 publications)

The Rumpus, 2019

Doesn't it keep you up at night?I was mothered by not knowing, by pain and by absence. I grew and became the dark pieces of myself, but now I know that darkness is not inherently monstrous.

PRISM international, 2021

Queen Mob's Teahouse, 2020

Forest HillsThe cool air from the Church was a relief to us as I held open the back door we snuck into.

LandLocked, 2021

ShimmerWhen I first realized the word ‘agender’ applied to me, that I was agender, my biggest concern was that I was no longer a man. I didn’t know how else to fit in the world.

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Links

I Miss CommunicationImmersive trash sculpture created in residency at 360 Xochi Quetzal in Chapala, MX NOV 2020 exploring themes of connection and communication across time and space.