ISSUE 22 : MARTHE REED TRIBUTE EDITION :kollektiv 9 :. Somewhere in the Cloud or Inbetween : a Marthe Reed Tribute : das kollektiv 9, ISSUE 22 In the wake of Marthe Reed’s sudden departure from this world, we are left with the body of work--her books, including Nights Reading, Pleth (with j hastain), (em)bodied bliss, Gaze, and Tender Box: A Wunderkammer, her chapbooks, her collages, her essays, works in progress, and notebooks--as well as the books and chapbooks she helped bring into being as editor of Black Radish Books and Nous Zots Press, and the myriad connections and threads and actions she inspired through her advocacy of other writers and poets and her activism. In her essay “somewhere in-between: Speaking-Through Contiguity” in Counter-Desecration: A Glossary for Writing Within the Anthropocene, the anthology she co-edited with Linda Russo, Marthe Reed (1958-2018) directs us to Timothy Morton’s reframing of human/other-than-human relationships as “drastically collective”—“All kinds of beings, from toxic waste to sea snails, are clamoring for our scientific, political, and artistic attention.” Marthe writes: “Escape from this truth lies through no doorway, no slippery construct of language or argument: ‘we’ are ‘it,’ inextricable from our circumstances. The point on which all else turns: within this ‘drastically collective’ condition, how, then…live? Indeed, how write?” For this 9th iteration of the Dusie Kollektiv, we asked poets, friends, and readers of Marthe Reed to explore this urgent question. “In times like these,” she writes in a revision of Rich, “it is necessary to embrace the ‘somewhere in-between’ affording and sheltering difference not as distance but as intimacy.” We invited poets around the world to create digital chapbooks for Marthe and in Marthe’s memory and poetics of Somewhere in the Cloud or In-between, held a reading of participants who were also at the New Orleans Poetry Festival in April 2019, and now present the works here of “that somewhere in-between self and other near and distant, paradoxical poles resolving moment-to-moment into contiguity. Meeting place.’