6AMING, Matt Turner

September, 2026

6AMING was begun while watching Jacques Rivette’s 13-hour film Out 1, a film with acting, conspiracies, gossip, threesomes and more. 6AMING documents the slow and quick passage of time in a placeless place––sometimes on the screen, sometimes around people and things. Fragmentary narratives that mimic automatic writing, enumerating the world happening within brief minutes, they game the facts of the mind as if those facts were poems. Influenced by the experimental music of contemporary Beijing, 6AMING presents the world as all that is the case: détourned text.

Matt Turner is the author of four additional full collections of poetry, most recently The Places (BlazeVOX 2025), and three chapbooks. He has translated or co-translated around a dozen books from Chinese, focusing on China’s contemporary avant-garde––including, notably, works by Yan Jun, Wan Xia, and Ou Ning. His essays and reviews can be found in Cha, Hyperallergic Weekend, Bookforum and elsewhere. He lives in New York City, where he is a commercial translator and copy editor.