The divine and the digital achieve a distinct corporality in Maya Salameh's How to Make an Algorithm in the Microwave, winner of the 2022 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize. Layering prayer with code, Salameh brings supposedly unassailable technological constructs like algorithm, recursion, and loop into conversation with the technologies of womanhood.
"In How to Make an Algorithm in the Microwave, winner of the 2022 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize, Maya Salameh explores the intimate relationships we have with our devices, speaking back to the algorithm that serves simultaneously as warden, data thief, and confidant"--
