These geometric animations emerge from Hilma’s Ghost Feminist Collective, a collaboration rooted in the creative energies of a community of women and queer poets including Dorothea Lasky, CAConrad, and Mexico City-based Lucía Hinojosa Gaxiola. Each animation functions as a magical intervention—a visual spell cast through moving shapes and forms that pulse with the rhythms and intentions embedded in the original poems. Collaboration is the inner core and signature of what we do: these works translate language into motion through collective practice, transforming written verse into dynamic geometric patterns that shift, rotate, and reconfigure themselves across the screen.
As visual works, these pieces extend beyond traditional poetry into a hybrid space where text, ritual, and animation converge. They are schedules of magical intervention—timed sequences of transformations born from our collaborative process, where individual voices weave together into something larger than any single vision. Each animation carries forward the experimental spirit of feminist and queer poetic practice, creating new vocabularies of shape and movement that honor the radical possibilities of working together. Through this luminous, kinetic form, we build bridges between poets’ communities and audiences, inviting viewers into encounters with both geometry and enchantment that could only exist through collective creation.
Dorothea Lasky
Dorothea Lasky, excerpt from “Time, the Rose, and the Moon,” in MEMORY, Semiotext(e), 2023
CAConrad
CAConrad, from First Light, 500 Places, 2024
Lucía Hinojosa Gaxiola
Lucía Hinojosa Gaxiola, “04:22,” from The Telaraña Circuit, Tender Buttons Press, 2023
Ariana Reines
Ariana Reines, “Tenth Body,” from A Sand Book, Tin House Books, 2020
The poets
Ariana Reines is an American poet, Obie-winning playwright, performing artist, and translator. Her newest books of poetry include The Rose (Graywolf, 2025), Wave of Blood (Divided, 2024), and A Sand Book (2019), which won the 2020 Kingsley Tufts Prize and was shortlisted for the National Book Award.
Dorothea Lasky is an associate professor of poetry at Columbia University and the author of collections including The Shining (2023), Milk (2018), and Thunderbird (2012). Her work is known for its emotionally raw explorations of power, vulnerability, and the supernatural.
CAConrad has worked with the ancient technologies of poetry and ritual since 1975, developing (Soma)tic Poetry Rituals that invite readers into radical presence and queer healing. They received the 2022 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize and a Lambda Literary Award.
Lucía Hinojosa Gaxiola is a Mexico City–based artist, poet, and editor whose work explores the materiality of language, memory, sound ecology, and the boundaries of place through multimedia performance and experimental writing.