Het Bos in Antwerp, Belgium
2025
Country Gleams is a collection of videopoems exploring themes of home, belonging, and identity within suspended placelessness. In weaving together poetry, film, and candid field recordings from Michigan to Antwerp, the installation experiments with a unique audiovisual poetics. Seen above in the Vruchtbare Grond arts festival at Het Bos.
The House. 5 minutes.
Featuring a singing performance by Chloe and Olivia Kimes.
Naar Thuis Fietsen. 8 minutes.
Animated with Google Earth, featuring music from Småland’s Karen 1, Karen 2, and Karen 3.
Energy Angel. 30 minutes.
Looping & distortion, footage between Antwerp, Bruges & Luxembourg.
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Megan Briggs, Saenah Boch & Alan Lin.
2023
An queer love story visually inspired by Terra em Transe (1967). Featured in the Yale showcase ‘Film, I Devour: Re-Visions of the Afro-Luso Brazilian Film Scene’.
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2022
Directed and filmed by myself with support from Elayna Pushee. Featuring my original poem "Red Center," inspired by Mark Rothko's painting White Center (1957) and Anne Carson's verse novel Autobiography of Red (1998).
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2022
An exercise in surrealism inspired by the poem “Domain of the Marvelous” by Martinician poet and scholar Suzanne Césaire. With filming support from Alan Lin and Tulsi Patel.
‘The domain of the Strange, the Marvelous and the Fantastic, a domain scorned by people of certain inclinations. Here is the freed image, dazzling and beautiful, with a beauty that could not be more unexpected and overwhelming. Here are the poet, the painter, and the artist, presiding over the metamorphoses and the inversions of the world under the sign of hallucinations and madness.”
—Suzanne Césaire, Tropiques, 1941
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meganfbriggs@gmail.com
Belgium: +32 490 21 22 45
USA: +1 203 823 0538
Megan is on their second term as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in literature at the University of Antwerp, where they also offer poetry workshops and founded the student-run multilingual literary mag Backpage Magazine.
Their professional experience includes producing with NPR-affiliate WSHU Public Radio, research in Climate Health at Save the Children, and grassroots organizing with the Anti-Racist Teaching & Learning Collective. They are invested in community-oriented action and social justice frameworks within arts and education spaces.
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Radio
Film
Poem: “County Fair” in Yale Daily News Magazine, 2021.
Poem: “My Front Yard, According to Texts from My Father,” in Yale Daily News Magazine, 2020.
Feature: “School gardens are changing education for Connecticut's urban youth” in WSHU Public Radio, May 2022.
Feature: “New England youth activists resist paralyzing climate anxiety with food sustainability” in WSHU Public Radio, April 2022.
Assistant Producer on Still Newtown podcast with WSHU Public Radio
Associate Producer on WYBC Ante-Fling 2021 Concert Film featuring Mia Gladstone
B.A. in Ethnicity, Race & Migration
Global Health Studies
2023
2023
Ezra Stiles Film Festival — Best Documentary
Picture by Lies Ooms.
Last Updated 30.05.2025
18 pages, 105 x 148 mm
2023
THE POINT OF PAIN captures a single poem stretched across images taken between Iceland and New Haven, Connecticut. Using the analog technique of double exposure on film paired with digital graphic design, the artist is posited into the alien landscapes of Iceland as a giant, ghostly figure.
Released alongside a photo installation in Timothy Dwight College at Yale University in May of 2023.
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40 pages, 148 mm x 210 mm
2022
HOMEMAKER is a chapbook of poetry alongside film photography, riso art, and illustrations. Functioning as an intimate portrait of the artist at the turn of the second decade of life, this collection asks how we might define and re-define ‘home’ when we come of age. The photographs display clashing scenes across Connecticut, New York, Minnesota, and Kenya.
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