JD Pluecker

JD Pluecker is a language worker who writes, translates, organizes, interprets, and creates. In 2010, he co-founded the transdisciplinary collaborative Antena and in 2015 the local social justice interpreting collective Antena Houston. His work is informed by experimental poetics, language justice, queer aesthetics, and cross-border/cross-language cultural production. He has translated numerous works from Spanish, including Sor Juana and Other Monsters (Ugly Duckling Presse), Gore Capitalism (Semiotext(e)), and Antígona González (Les Figues Press). His book of poetry and image, Ford Over, was released in 2016 from Noemi Press. He is a member of the Macondo Writing Workshop and has exhibited work at Blaffer Art Museum, the Hammer Museum, Project Row Houses, and more.