elese daniel moonlights as a poet — pushing and pulling text, seeking verse in the everyday, the lapping of time and movement.

her poetry finds its way: tattooed on connected strangers, lyrical text for choral and classical music, exhibited as visual art, across boarded up windows, projected on brick, or as keepsakes wedged between books and tchotchkes collecting dust and sentimentality.

elese has composed hundreds of one-of-a-kind poems written “on-the-spot” for individuals at public and private events for several years. the majority of those were written with Chase Public and dpict. this personal and ephemeral exchange is easily her favorite way to write poetry, because she does it with you.

elese is trying. she lives in Cincinnati, Ohio and rides her bike in the street. she thinks often about community and belonging (instead of her own loneliness), what it means to share, and how people get around. she’s an observer and a considerate accomplice.