Vasectomy: An Incision in Parts is an experimental poem that takes the scientific method for its structure, appropriating it to call out our arrogance in attempting to parcel out the body and nature into neat scientific formats, as well as to explore the unequal weight placed on the female body in terms of both reproduction and birth control.

This poem also uses playful rhyme to balance the bluntly scatological—menstruation, condoms, lactation–with the lyrical.

Awarded a Sevens Foundation x Playboy grant.

Ana María Caballero (b.1981) is an award-winning, multidisciplinary literary artist. Her work explores how biology delimits societal and cultural rites, ripping the veil from romanticised motherhood and questioning notions that package sacrifice as a virtue. She’s the recipient of the Beverly International Prize, Colombia’s José Manuel Arango National Poetry Prize, the Steel Toe Books Poetry Prize, a Future Art Writers Award and a Sevens Foundation Grant. In 2024, she became the first living poet to sell a poem at Sotheby’s. Recognised as a digital poetry pioneer, her work has been nominated for a MAXXI BVLGARI Prize in the Digital Sector, shortlisted for a Lumen Prize, been a finalist for both the Vassar Miller and Academy of American Poetry Prizes and exhibited in museums, galleries and public spaces worldwide.