 “Francesco Levato’s
powerful documentary, War
Rug—like Eliot Weinberger’s What
I heard about Iraq before it—detains the language of the perpetrators
of global military aggression and redeploys it to indict them. From J.C.
Penny catalog copy to counterintelligence manuals and autopsy reports, War
Rug is a fierce yet unfortunate reminder of the absolute horrors of
our age.” —Mark Nowak, author of Coal Mountain Elementary
An enhanced eBook of the works produced during Exquisite: A Series of Corpses, an interactive poetry/visual art series. Poets and writers join artists on stage with a live model, drawing
materials, and typewriters. Poets and writers create new works, hand or typewritten,
based on the model, the art, the event, the people. Artists draw about the
same, including the written works.
This event follows in the history of exquisite corpse parlor games. Exquisite corpse is a method by which a collection of words or images is collectively assembled by a group of people. Each collaborator adds to a composition in sequence, either by following a rule or by being allowed to see the end of what the previous person contributed.
Scheduled for release in early 2010.
Each year The Poetry Center of Chicago invites regional poets to submit their unpublished work for consideration in its Annual Juried Reading, judged this year by Brenda Hillman. Finalists receive cash awards, are invited to read their work at The Poetry Center, and have their work published in a chapbook designed specifically for this event. This year The Poetry Center partnered with Plastique Press to design the competition’s chapbook as an expanded Plastique eBook, which features the work of its nine finalists: Lina ramona Vitkauskas (1st place), Carrie Oeding (2nd place), Richard Fox (3rd place), Stephanie Anderson, Patrick Culliton, Ellen Elder, Rebecca Morgan Frank, Megan Levad, and Stephanie Sauer.
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free download.
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