Multilingual poet/performer Philip Meersman (1971) pushes boundaries of poetry in both written and spoken form, drawing on current affairs, socio-political and environmental issues. He is the author of the poetry collection This Is Belgian Chocolate: Manifestations of Poetry. He is a cofounder of DAstrugis- tenDA, artiestencollectief JA!, and received in 2012 the “D. Buliuk award for outstanding achievements in the field of avant-garde art and the avant-garde in research.” In 2016 he starts a PhD in the Arts at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Antwerp: “the oral performance of visual poetry” based upon the work of the Russian Cubo-Futurists and René Magritte. http://threeroomspress.com/authors/ philip-meersman/