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!
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?
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.
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.
Writers, you still have until Friday, the 5th to send us your work to be considered for our March installation. Send us poetry or prose under 500 words and you could be the next author to grace our LED display!
Check out our Submissions page for details.
As promised, here are a few more photos of our current installation at the Chicago Hostel. The work is Amanda Beekhuizen’s prose poem, “A Hug From a Large Man for a Long Time, part VI” and will be up and running for a few more days. If you’re in Chicago, make sure to check it out before we have to move to our next installation.
We particularly like the floating effect that the hostel’s curtains lend our LED display, as if the poetry simply emanates from the window. From a distance though, it is just one of many LED signs fighting for one’s attention – it takes a closer look to distinguish it from the landscape of commerce and transportation.
We certainly found a visible place for Amanda Beekhuizen’s piece. We had to keep our first round of documentation short because of the cold, but not too short to see plenty of passers by slow down on their daily commutes and make some time for literature.
The covered location makes this installation especially easy to read during the day, so we’ll be going back for more photographs soon. In the meantime, we are pleased to know that the phrase “I am a burrito” is streaming across that little screen hundreds of times each day (but you should really come read the rest of it to find out how that fits within a very beautiful poem).
Happy New Year to our readers! We are celebrating the end of 2015 and the start of 2016 with the writing of Amanda Beekhuizen. Her prose poem, A Hug From a Large Man for a Long Time, part VI, will be up and running on January 4th at the H.I. Chicago Hostel.
Amanda Beekhuizen is an artist, bookmaker, and educator based in Tucson, Arizona. She earned an MFA in Craft at the Oregon College of Art and Craft in Portland, Oregon, in 2015, and a BFA in Studio Art and a BA in English at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona, in 2010. She has taught at Yavapai College, the University of Arizona Poetry Center, and at the Tucson Community Print Shop.
While she primarily works in the form of the book, she is equally concerned with the content of the books and their physical form. The content is generated through writing (mostly short vignettes about everyday occurrences that gather meaning when grouped together), action and documentation of that action (engaging in repeated action or building sculpture and interacting with it to make photographs and videos that later turn up in books), and a craft-based creative practice (an example of this: How would I embed a rock into a book? What would it mean?). Ultimately, her process is one of creating meaning through making.
Congratulations, Amanda!
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