Gamers Writers, Artists and Programmers on the Pleasures of Pixels

The writers, poets, visual artists, game testers and programmers who have contributed to this collection all argue that computer gaming has now reached the level of art. No longer just for kids and geeks, video games have grown in popularity and sophistication with each passing year. 23 gamers discuss what gaming means to them and examine the intersections between games and art, film, fiction and even life itself. In the process they offer an insight into how video games have become part of the cultural landscape and where it might all go from here.

Shanna Compton is the author of Brink, For Girls Other Poems, Down Spooky, an Open Book Award Winner, and several chapbooks. Creature Sounds Fade is forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press in 2020. She is currently at work on The Hazard Cycle, a book-length speculative poem. Her poetry and essays are widely published, appearing in Best American Poetry, The Nation, American Poetry Review, McSweeney’s, the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day series, and elsewhere. In addition to her work with the poets of Bloof, she designs books for independent authors and various small presses. She lives on the Delaware River in Lambertville, New Jersey.