Vermiculture is an outlet for experimental arts writing led by artists and writers. By ‘experimental’, we are thinking curious, speculative, and unwieldy. By ‘art’ we are thinking objects or situations created with a drive towards inquiry, contradictions, feelings (or their lack).  

Called Vermiculture because of a deep appreciation for, and investment in, the living strategies of compost (working through, rehashing, rethinking, disintegrating), Vermiculture supports writing that enacts reflection, fragmentation, and murkiness / muckiness. This is in contrast to dominant norms in “Art Writing”, which often lands as performatively objective, prescriptive or absolute. It (“A.W.”) also leans towards servicing art with words, whereas the vermicultural goal is to tend to both art and writing, if not equally, then in generative asymmetry. Mudslide. Cesspool. Stopbath? Thinking-writing.

Vermiculture is enthusiastic about poems, lists, notes, scores, fragments, etc. Submit to our email using the contact link (more info below).