‘The Late Heavy Bombardment’ evokes the demonic origins of life on Earth (during the Hadean Eon), while addressing the cosmic perils that still threaten life with extinction.

Coach House Books
Edition: ∞
2015

‘The Xenotext’ consists of two mutually codified sonnets: ‘Orpheus’ (written, via DNA, into the genome of a germ); and ‘Eurydice ‘(written, via RNA, into the protein of this cell).

No Press
Edition: 50
2017

‘The Nocturne of Orpheus’ (from The Xenotext) is a constrained, alexandrine sonnet that constitutes an anagram of the poem ‘When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be’ by John Keats.

Penteract Press
Edition: 100
2017

‘A Nocturne for Eurydice’ (from The Xenotext) is a love poem about a visit to a cavern in the Tamborine Mountains of Queensland to see the ‘illumination’ of Arachnocampa flava.

Penteract Press
Edition: 100
2018

‘A Nocturne for Eurydice’ (from The Xenotext) is a love poem, first published, as a chapbook, by Penteract Press in 2018, then reprinted in The Paris Review (Spring 2022).

The Paris Review
Edition: ∞
2022

‘Warning’ is a decal, featuring a text, mutated, then released, online, by Darren Wershler in 1992, to become the first, viral meme ever to recirculate on the emergent Internet.

Sin Over Tan
Edition: 100
1992

‘Warning’ commemorates the 30th Anniversary of the creation of the first, viral meme, composed by me in 1991, then released into the wild on the listserv at Future Culture in 1992.

Chromium Dioxide Press
Edition: 1
2021

‘A Virus from Outer Space’ is a trading placard that features six anagrams of a quote by William S. Burroughs, who has famously declared: ‘Language is a virus from outer space.’

Fact Simile
Edition: 100
2010

‘A Virus from Outer Space’ is a portfolio of silkscreens by Eveline Kolijn, featuring the genome for D. radiodurans and a model of the protein that makes this germ radioresistant.

Chromium Dioxide Press
Edition: 10
2007

Excerpts of Material from ‘The Xenotext’