Magdalena Poost

tender collector
art & ecology



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        Age 5
Magdalena is thinking about tender versions of a future in climate change, physical comedy, shared and secret mysteries, the quiet, shoe-string budget community theater, gentleness, holy food, rocks as soft things, community gardens, the silence of monks versus mimes, getting a massage license, bunnies, God, fermentation funk, Mr. Bean, textures of light, maintenance, the sudden and pervasive symbol of birds in their life, ephemeral Public Art, absurdity, putting together outfits, romance as a practice, non-binary and trans ecologies, rigidity/fluidity, the space between words & bodies, and cloud patterns as conversations. What is poetry? Tell her what you think at magpoost@gmail.com. Really.


Magdalena Poost makes art and tries to be casual yet reverent in most situations. Originally from a hay farm in rural Pennsylvania, in 2023 they graduated from Princeton University, where they majored in Sociocultural Anthropology and minored in Environmental Studies, Creative Writing, and Theater. There they studied the translation of bodies into poems and shared meals as sites of memory and climate change. Fascinated by edges, boundaries, and definitions, they mainly work in writing and performance, but also make sculptures, collages, and immersive installations in an exploration of how to create moments of shared intimacy. Their work has been published by The B’K and the Nassau Literary Review; through the Blue Lab they are working on releasing an audio piece on the effects of Hurricane Ida on the community of Lambertville, NJ. At Princeton, they received the Creative Community Leadership Award and the Environmental Book Prize for Visual and Performing Arts. They were a panelist on “Experiments in Place-Based Storytelling” at the 2023 Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment conference in Portland, OR. They currently work as the inaugural Public Art and Ecology Fellow at the Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy in downtown Boston, through the High Meadow Environmental Institute Fellowship program.