Anna Vitale performs associative patterns of the unconscious, offering something like psychoanalytic practice as part poetic practice. She's currently writing a dissertation about suicide and language. Her short books include Unknown Pleasures (Perfect Lovers) and Anna Vitale’s Pop Poems (OMG). Other work can be found in Emergency Index 2012 (Ugly Duckling) and online at Gauss PDF, and Harriet: the blog.