Jaye Kranz, a white woman with short dark hair, wears a denim shirt and smiles in front of a white wooden background.
Jaye Kranz

Assistant Managing Editor Bess Winter: Besides being a talented poet, 22.1 contributor Jaye Kranz just so happens to be an accomplished documentary filmmaker. She’s kindly shared with us this haunting excerpt of her poem, “Your Inbox Is Too Much With Us—a correspondence,” that takes us on journeys through email exchanges and ASCII landscapes that feel both déjà vu-like and oddly tranquil. This video is best experienced while wearing headphones.

Jaye Kranz is a poet, writer, and award-winning documentary audio maker. Her poems have appeared in West Branch, The Florida Review, Best of Australian Poems, Foglifter, The Marrow, and Frozen Sea. Occasional nonfiction in The Monthly. Audio work on BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 3, ABC Radio National. jayekranz.com