by Dylan Kinnett

Writings, Publications, and Creative Work


Dylan Kinnett is a writer and web developer who makes spoken word performances, chapbooks, experimental music, code projects, and photos.

The term "poet" is loaded with assumptions about romanticism, rhyme, rigidity. An "author" might be assumed to produce genre novels, or news journalism, but I don't. I do write and also I work with performance and new media. In the end, they're all restrictive categories but if you have to pick one, how about language art?

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Day One at the Airport Motel

Day One at the Airport Motel

spoken word performance accompanied by found footage video with music by Ryan Snyder. Crosscurrence at Current Space, Baltimore, Maryland. 9 Sept. 2023.


A story about working as a motel housekeeper, including the mixed perspectives and ephemeral realities of all who pass through an interstitial place like a motel, alongside a highway, near an airport.

What’s the Catch? at Artscape

What’s the Catch? at Artscape

Spoken word performance art with Cardinal Space and the Prints and Multiples Fair. Artscape. 2019.


My performance routine, What’s the Catch? was featured on stage with Cardinal at the Prints and Multiples Fair as part of Artscape 2019 in Baltimore, Maryland.

Short Plays

Short Plays

Read by Stephanie Barber, Peter Cardamone, Justin Sanders, Mike Shattuck, and David Young. Cardinal art space. 2019.


How to Rant

How to Rant

Microfiction Rowhouse. 2017.


A writing workshop, focused on extemporaneous composition, using the familiar idea of a rant as a start.

States and Drives II

States and Drives II

Words by Dylan Kinnett. Music by Curt Seiss. Special thanks to Paul Mericle. Performed during States and Drives II at Litmore. Baltimore, Maryland. 2015.


LitScape

LitScape

“Be Sure,” from a collection entitled “Litanies and Reiterations,” with sound accompaniment by Curt Seiss.


Federal Dust

Federal Dust

Reading at the Federal Dust series. Baltimore, Maryland. 2014.


Dylan Kinnett. at the “Federal Dust” reading series. Baltimore, MD. December 06, 2014.

No Air Radio Presents

No Air Radio Presents

Performance at the Pilot Light in Knoxville, Tennessee. 2014.


I performed two pieces that night, entitled “Coming Soon to Videocassette” and “Canned Laughter.” The crowd was bewildered.

Left of the Bank

Left of the Bank

Spoken word performance at the 10th Annual Left of the Bank fundraiser reading for the Shepherdstown Public Library in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. 2014.


What’s the Catch?

What’s the Catch?

Performance at the Charm City Art Space. Part of the Projection Series. Baltimore, Maryland. 2013.


Performance art featuring an array of constantly ringing analogue telephones and an overhead transparency projector.

The Doppler Effect

The Doppler Effect

Short fiction published in the fifth issue of Baltimore’s Seltzer magazine. 2013. Online.


A tale about differences of experience and opinion, written using only a single adjective.

WORMS

WORMS

“The Bell Foundry. Baltimore, Maryland. 2010.”


WORMS is a reading series billed as “an interactive literary magazine in 3-D.”

Strange Punctuation

Strange Punctuation

Spoken word album. Magnanimous Records. 2009.


You can add, subtract, rearrange sound just like you can with words on a page. With sound there are other ways to edit.

Ed Schrader Show

Ed Schrader Show

Featured on Ed Schrader’s late night talk show at Metro Gallery.


Staged reading of a script for one actor and an array of telephones.

Physicalist Manifesto

Physicalist Manifesto

Physicalism is an emphatic emphasis on the physicality of art. We wrote and distributed a manifesto at Art Basel, Miami and other locations. 2005.


No bullshit! The thing is the idea. The idea is the thing.