Andrew Lundwall is an American poet and independent literary editor whose work includes Gardening at Night and the chapbooks klang, honorable mention, little america, and funtime, a collaboration with Adam Fieled.
Lundwall belongs among contemporary poets whose literary careers developed alongside electronic magazines, small presses, collaborative projects, and the rapidly expanding online poetry culture of the early twenty-first century.
Gardening at Night
Gardening at Night gathers a substantial body of Lundwall’s poetry and has been described as his first full-length collection. The book extends a writing practice that had previously circulated through chapbooks, magazines, blogs, and collaborative publishing projects.
His poems often favor compression, discontinuity, unusual verbal combinations, and sudden shifts of image. The writing can move quickly from concrete perception toward abstraction, dream, humor, or linguistic disruption.
Chapbooks and collaboration
Earlier chapbooks include klang, honorable mention, little america, and funtime. These compact publications reflect the importance of chapbook culture to experimental American poetry, where short-run editions often provide a flexible space for formally adventurous work.
funtime, written with Adam Fieled, also reflects Lundwall’s interest in collaboration. Collaborative writing allows voice and authorship to become shared structures rather than fixed individual positions.
Poetic Inhalation
Lundwall co-founded and managed the electronic arts and literary journal Poetic Inhalation with Jeannie Smith. The journal belonged to an early wave of web-based literary publishing that gave poets new ways to circulate work internationally outside print distribution.
Scantily Clad Press
Lundwall later edited Scantily Clad Press, an electronic chapbook series. Through editorial work as well as his own poems, he participated directly in the small-scale publishing networks that helped experimental writers find readers and one another.
Visual and experimental practice
Biographical notes from the early 2000s also document Lundwall’s interest in visual art. His poems share some of that visual sensibility through abrupt spacing, fragmentation, image clusters, and attention to the appearance of language.
Readers interested in related literary methods can continue through experimental poetry.
Literary context
Lundwall’s work appeared in journals including La Petite Zine, RealPoetik, Action, Yes, Otoliths, Big Bridge, and other independent venues. His career connects poetry with editing, electronic publication, visual experimentation, and collaboration.
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