The Planets Around Your Beliefs: The Poem

Cover Image: From the painting “Reindeer for the Cartesian Hello” by Fernando Campos (acrylic on canvas, 48 x 30 inches) // Experimental voice; contemporary aesthetics; semiotics in practice; bold artistic discovery; playful creation; innovative expression; whimsical performance // Fernando Campos is the Acquisitions Coordinator for the University of Virginia Press. As an undergraduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, he served as an associate editor for Berkeley Fiction Review, Berkeley Poetry Review, and The Comparative Literature Undergraduate Journal at UC Berkeley (CLUJ). He also served as a Senior Advisor for CLUJ. He completed a senior thesis on ekphrastic poetry and graduated with honors in the UC Berkeley English Department.