Jeffrey Encke

 

Most Wanted (A Gamble in Verse)

Most Wanted (A Gamble in Verse) is a series of poems published as a deck of playing cards, whose 8.0658 X 1067 arrangements give it a potential that is, for all intents and purposes, infinite. Every reading I have given from Most Wanted, christened with a shuffle, has been sequentially distinct.

Jeffrey Encke
in collaboration with Vivek Chadaga (design)

 

Jeffrey Encke was born in Pittsburgh in 1971 and raised in Seattle. In 2003, he completed his PhD in English at Columbia University. His poetry has appeared in various journals, including American Writing, Barrow Street, Black Warrior Review, Colorado Review, Cream City Review, Octopus, Salt Hill, 3rd Bed, and Quarterly West. Encke has taught creative writing and criticism at both Columbia and Richard Hugo House in Seattle, where he currently resides. He thanks Vivek Chadaga for the design assistance on “Most Wanted (A Gamble in Verse).”

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