About the Author

Chris Ciattei, also known as “Batworth,” is a long-standing fixture on the Baltimore arts scene and has been writing poetry for over 40 years. He was a frequent contributor to the Shattered Wig Review—publishing four chapbooks in the 1990s. His poems have also appeared in Lost and Found Times, Driver’s Side Air Bag, and The Pearl, among other publications. His most recent book Nothing Doing was published by Apathy Press in 2022.

A self-confessed “clanguage poet.” Chris is currently exploring visual art in the form of abstract, mixed-media photography. Chris is also a longtime musician and currently plays drums with Batworth Stone, Go-Pills, and Half Japanese.

Nothing Doing is a collection of poems 10 years in the making that are a full
expression of experiments and explorations in the space where sound and meaning exchange value.