Residency: Rachel Franklin Wood, June 21 through July 13, 2026, Cahors, France

Counterpath is excited to announce it’s first artisit residency in its new location in Cahors, France. Rachel Franklin Wood will be at the space from June 23 to July 13, 2026, and will work on the project described in the personal statement below. Welcome Rachel!

“Over the past few months, I’ve become increasingly interested in two things: Ruth Asawa’s wire sculptures and microscopes and other magnification devices that make close-looking possible. It seems to me that these two interests point to an obsession with getting close enough to a structure to begin to see the ‘rhyming’ that occurs in near distances. I’m drawn to the way that small and irregular shapes repeat and amass until — having at some point crossed an imperceptible threshold — they become a novel form. I plan to spend my time in Cahors reading about the field of optics and experimenting with iterative forms across mediums in an attempt to establish my own process, and form, of close-looking.”

Rachel Franklin Wood grew up in Laramie, Wyoming. She lives now in Boulder, Colorado where, at the University of Colorado, she teaches and serves as managing editor of Subito Press. Her poems have appeared in Annulet, Denver Quarterly, DIAGRAM, Fence, The Rumpus, We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics, and elsewhere. Her first collection of poetry will be published by Astrophil Press in 2027.