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.
We are happy to announce that our next featured writer is Chicago’s own Ruby Figueroa.
Ruby is a “23 year old living in Pilsen obsessed with love and human’s ability to overcome heartbreak.”
She tells us:
“I studied studio art, psychology, and bass clarinet in college, and I’m currently teaching myself how to play ukulele — all these different interests have turned my practice into a hybrid of visual art, music, and writing. I’m a graduate student at Columbia College Chicago in the Book and Paper MFA program where I concentrate on papermaking and printmaking. If I’m not at school, you can find me walking around the city with headphones plugged in carrying a backpack full of books, or at a coffee shop cackling to myself. When I hang out with my friends, I usually fill up my phone with notes about all these great (or not so great) ideas for the future TV-sitcom that’s going to be made about us. If all else fails, I’m people-watching and writing stories in my head about what they could be thinking, because I’m constantly trying to find connections with other people.”
Soon we will unveil the location where you will be able to read Ruby’s piece, Cancer Baby Girl. In the meantime, congratulations, Ruby!
Calling all writers!
Send us poetry or prose under 500 words by March 5th to be considered for our April installation. Writers may submit up to three pieces for consideration, so don’t be shy!
See our submission guidelines for more details.
Given the full moon, it seemed like an appropriate time to photograph Lambent again. That’ll make sense to those of you who have read the poem, which will stay up at Women and Children First through the end of the month.
If you’re in Chicago, then go out and read Lambent, by Chicago writer Laura Knickelbine, under the full moon for yourself. Otherwise you’ll have to wait another week for us to archive it online.
We once again braved the cold to bring you some photos of our current installation, Laura Knickelbine’s poem, Lambent. As you can see, we are lucky to share the window with a fantastic selection of important books as well as an impressive list of upcoming events.
Even with this weather, you will be glad you took the time to go and read Lambent! February is a short month, so don’t wait… but don’t worry it is a Leap Year.
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