As promised, here are a few images of Caroline S. Knickmeier’s poem, Cables. You can see it for yourself throughout the month of April at RoscoeBooks.
Having, once again, frozen our fingers off to take these photos, we’d recommend visiting during business hours so you can warm your hands around a new book.
Here are a few images from this morning’s installation at RoscoeBooks (including Carley entering the ultra-top-secret password into our display).
We carefully gaffed our extension cord over the bookcases, which took longer than it should have because we kept getting distracted by all the books in front of us. If you like literature, then you’ll definitely want to stop by and browse for yourself!
We’ll be sharing more photos of the Caroline S. Knickmeier’s poem, Cables, soon, so check back.
Our home for April will be yet another awesome independent bookstore: RoscoeBooks. We will be installing Cables, by Caroline S. Knickmeier on Monday, April 4th for your reading pleasure.
RoscoeBooks is located at 2142 W Roscoe St, Chicago, IL 60618, just a short walk from the Paulina Brown Line stop.
They are open:
M, W, Sa: 10-7
Th, F: 10-8
Su: 11-7
Make sure to check out their website or Facebook page to keep up with all their news and events!
Of course I’m going to fact check you on everything. I’m gonna ask for receipts. I’m gonna shoot you a cross look from across the room when I see you acting different in front of other people. I’m going to tell you the same story over and over again until your laughs become a part of it so we tell it like a play we are rehearsing.
I’m going to remember every single thing you have ever said to me- the good and I’ll hold on tight to the bad. I’m going to turn everything you’ve said into poetry and mix those words into my morning coffee when I’m thinking about that night from 3 days ago. I’m going to build a strong relationship with you, make you feel like you couldn’t live without me.
But you will live without me. You’ll find something with someone else that won’t challenge you as much as I did. I’ll find something somewhere else too. But one day, I’ll be sitting around making up scenes of you and that person. In my head, you’ll go get an iced tea from the gas station and you’ll bend over to tie your shoe and you’ll crack a huge smile and laugh about something I said ages ago. Then I’ll smile too.
Attention writers: we are currently accepting work for our May installation. The deadline is April 5th, so send us up to 3 pieces that are each under 500 words. Go to our Submissions Page for more details.
June will be our final installation, so this is your second to last chance to get your work on our LED display (and our website, and in our forthcoming print anthology)!
We were lucky to do our install on a cloudy morning and snag a few good photos, but we went back tonight to record our video of Ruby Figueroa’s piece, Cancer Baby Girl.
Here are a couple more images. Don’t miss your chance to visit the installation in person to read the whole poem and get the full experience!
Not pictured: the many people who stopped to pose in front of the camera as we recorded the video. Stay tuned for a blooper reel?
It’s officially Spring! April is just around the corner, and we’re ready to announce our next writer: Caroline S. Knickmeier! We are so excited to share her poem, Cables, with our readers next month. Check back soon to find out where we will be installing, and in the meantime you can find out more about Caroline below. Congratulations, Caroline!
Caroline S. Knickmeier is an artist and writer located in southwestern Wisconsin. Caroline studied religion at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, literature, art, and wilderness forestry at the University of Montana, Missoula, MT, (where she earned at BA in Liberal Studies and Wilderness), goldsmithing and design in northern MT at Flathead College, and landed in Madison, WI to study photography, painting, and ceramics at Madison College.
Her work has been shown in the Overture Center for the Arts, the Janet Carson Gallery, FSTOP Magazine, Tye Johnson Gallery, Arterie Fine Art Gallery, John Michael Kohler Arts Center Gallery, Gallery Marzen, Edgewood College Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Lofts Gallery, The Whole 9 Gallery, Light, Space, and Time Gallery, and published in the Yahara Journal, among others.
Don’t forget to visit Ruby Figueroa’s piece, Cancer Baby Girl, at Belli’s Juicebar and Market on 18th and Allport. Here are a few more images to pique your interest.
We’re so grateful to Belli’s Chicago in Pilsen for hosting our project in their wonderful juicebar and market. We took advantage of the cloudy day to bring you a few photos (posted below) from this morning’s installation. Ruby Figueroa’s piece, Cancer Baby Girl, will be up for the next three weeks right on 18th and Allport.
It’s a new month and that means a new installation! We are grateful that Belli’s Juicebar is partnering with us to share Ruby Figueroa’s writing with her own neighborhood, Pilsen.
Beginning this Saturday, March 5th, you’ll be able to read Ruby’s Cancer Baby Girl while you sip on delicious small batch juices (of course we’ve tried them – what sort of editors would install poetry in a juicebar without checking first?)
Belli’s is located at 1221 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608.
Their hours are:
T-F: 9:00 – 7:00
S-Su: 9:00 – 5:00
Of course, you’ll be able to read Ruby’s writing 24/7.
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