E. K. Heller

E. K Heller (b. 1993 Berlin) is a poet, literary critic, experimental sound- and filmmaker.
They are the author of Ar:range:ments (Fonograf Editions).

Heller is a Barbican Young Poet (18/19), an Obsidian Foundation Fellow, a Ledbury Critic, and an Image Text Ithaca Junior Fellow.
Their films have screened at Berlinale Forum Expanded, Third Horizon, Alchemy Moving Image Festival, ICA London,
amongst other places. They are currently a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at Harvard University.

Contact: contactekheller[at] gmail dot com

Photo Credit: Tramaine (Maine focus)

Press for AR:RANGE:MENTS (Fonograf)

Publications

POETRY

Call to Prayer - Sawti
Points of Memory - SAND Issue 25
Grains - The Guardian
Dentist - Poetry School Newsletter
Andromeda - Magma Poetry Issue 82
hooded violets - Slanted House Zine
Grains - Before Them We Anthology
Feb. 09. 1982 - Before Them We Anthology
Denzel - The Baffler

REVIEWS

Poetic Assemblages of Collective Enunciations - Squandered Advice by Ilse Aichinger (translated by Steph Morris, Seagull Books, 2022) - Modern Poetry in Translation
Repetition as Transformation for Change - Review of Habitus by Radna Fabias (Translated by David Colmer, Deep Vellum) - Modern Poetry in Translation Issue No.3, 2022
VILLAGE by LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs - Harvard Review
Bluest Nude by Ama Codjoe - The Georgia Review (Spring Issue)
Root Fractures by Diana Khoi Nguyen, perennial fashion presence falling by Fred Moten and School of Instructions by Ishion Hutchinson - The Poetry Review (Spring Issue)
Inheritance by Taylor Johnson - Ghost Proposal

Articles and Interviews

School of Instructions: Ishion Hutchinson by Esther Kondo Heller - BOMB Magazine
West Indian Soldiers of World War One an Interview with Ishion Hutchinson — The Poetry Society
The Poetic Teachings of Audre Lorde - Young Poets Network

FILMOGRAPHY

^{Notes to May Ayim, 2023. [29:48 min, Film] Esther Kondo Heller. dir. — Sound by Nathanael Amadou Kliebhan, part of OYOUN Rogin Shagor.}
^{Frontiers of Silence. 2021 [04:48 min, Film] Esther Kondo Heller. dir. ICA London as part of Strange Echoes in celebration of M. NourbeSe Philip, London.}
^{MU/T/T/ER. 2021. [17:34 min, Film]. Esther Kondo Heller. dir. London: Film Video Umbrella, London.}
^{Bodies. 2020. [04:35 min, Film]. Esther Kondo Heller. dir. London: Visible Poetry Project, NYC.}
^{hooded violets. 2019. [7 min, Film]. Esther Kondo Heller. dir. London.}