Neil Aitken

Opera

Mother Tongue (libretto). Music composed by Juhi Bansal. Beth Morrison Projects (expected 2027)
Edge of a Dream (libretto). Music composed by Juhi Bansal. LA Opera (2020)

Poetry

New Work


Tupelo Quarterly: “Ritual”
Hyphen Magazine: “After”, "44"
Valparaiso Poetry Journal: “Searching My Father's Books”

from Letters (unfinished)


$ (Poetry is Currency): Letter Twenty-Three", "Letter Twenty-Five"
Moria: “Letter Twenty-One”
DMQ Review: "Letter Ten", "Letter Fifty"

from Babbage's Dream


The Adroit Journal: “Babbage and Carroll in the Silent Workshop, 1867”
Dialogist: "Babbage Reflecting on the Cruelty of Man, 1835", "Babbage Sending Messages to Ada, Now Gone, 1852", "Return", "Void"
Stirring: “The Mechanical Turk, Encircled by Flames, Bids Farewell”
Thrush Poetry Journal: “Binary”
Lantern Review: "Memory"

from The Lost Country of Sight


Crab Orchard Review: "Prodigal"
RHINO: "Outside Plato's Republic, The Last Poets Wait for Departure"
Stirring: "Elegy for Grey"
Inscape: "Burials"

Interactive Fiction

Completed


A Little Assistance (group project) - Navigate the ethical and moral complexities of working with AI as a new college student
The Cave - You wake up in a dark cave and make choices that define who are

In Progress


Into the Dark Woods - A tangled narrative about roads not taken while trying to survive overnight in the forest
The Last Librarian - You're the last bookmobile librarian in the far North
The Interview - It's your big break, if you could just get to the interview

Interviews

Moria: "Crossing Borders: An Interview with Neil Aitken" by Tania Sislian (2019)
Kenyon Review: "A Hunger and a Need" An Interview with Neil Aitken and Dao Strom, Founders of De-Canon" (2019)
The Displaced Nation: "TCK Talent: Neil Aitken, Computer Gaming Whiz Kid Turned Award-Winning Poet" (2015)
Lantern Review: "2 Poets, 4 Questions: Q&A with Neil Aitken and Rumit Pancholi" (2014)
Inscape Journal: "Interview with Neil Aitken" (2012)
Lantern Review: "On Poetry Potlucks: Part I - How to Start a Poetry Potluck" (2012)