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Ashley Obscura is a poet, publisher, and poetic systems designer exploring the intersections of language, technology, and ritual.

Her work considers poetry as an interface—an evolving medium that dissolves boundaries between intuition and automation. Rooted in a reverence for language as both artifact and living force, her practice moves fluidly between print, performance, immersive storytelling, and experimental digital forms. Recognized as one of Canada’s most forward-thinking contemporary poets, her work pushes the boundaries of form while remaining deeply attuned to the intimate and the cosmic.

Obscura is the founder and publisher of Metatron Press, an award-winning literary house dedicated to emerging and experimental voices. Through her work, she seeks to cultivate new architectures for poetry.

Her poetry and writing have been widely published, translated, and anthologized, with three collections in print: Sexø Por Última Vez, Ambient Technology, and I Am Here. She has been commissioned by the National Film Board of Canada, Manchester International Festival, Blue Met Literary Festival, Newhive, and others to create intermedia works. Many of the projects she has led or contributed to have gone on to receive critical acclaim and awards.

She is currently developing new poetic infrastructures—dreamlike, digital, and embodied—that interface with language as code, memory, and evolving architecture.

I create projects that invite the world to dream in poetry—works that dissolve boundaries, reimagine form, and open portals into immersive, interactive, and emotionally resonant dimensions. Rooted in poetry, shaped by technology, and guided by ritual, my practice moves across disciplines to design poetic systems that are felt, lived, and experienced.

From interactive VR dreamscapes (Museum of Symmetry) and AI-infused poetry laboratories (ORA.LUX), to sonic interfaces for performed language (QUALIA) and future-oriented print publishing (Metatron Press), my work explores poetry as an interface—a living system where language breathes, listens, and transforms.

✶ Poetic Systems & Hybrid Forms

✶ Immersive & Interactive Worlds – Works like Museum of Symmetry and QUALIA craft sensorial, participatory experiences through VR, sound, and motion-responsive environments.

✶ The Convergence of Art & Technology – Platforms such as ORA.LUX explore generative writing, AI tools, and the future of authorship, where language is both ancient and algorithmic.

✶ Portals for Connection & Discovery

At its core, my work is about building new architectures for poetic expression—where language is not just written but activated, shared, and alive with luminous possibility.

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