PUBLIC POETICS: PEDAGOGY & PRACTICE
I like what happens when we get to talk to, through, and with each other under the big tent of poetry. My projects are playful and participatory, low-budget, and text-driven. I'm interested in designing and executing these kinds of projects with other writers, poets, and artists interested in meeting at the edges of language & relationship. Have an idea? Let's collaborate. Have also been involved in elaborate text-image exchanges via post with artists like Maya Erdelyi.
ROYALE ELIXIR PHARAMACIA DU AMOUR — A POETRY PHARMACY, 2010
Suffering an existential crisis? The pain of heartbreak? Psychic bail out? Disconnect between mind and body? General malaise or melancholia? The Royale Elixir Pharmacia du Amor is a poetry pharmacy that prescribes just the right poem to heal you. Poets, writers, artists, and musicians will listen carefully to your symptoms, assess your situation, and provide you with a poem scrolled in a pill bottle, along with detailed directions on how to consume it. Contact us for more details. Love is limitless. The Royale Elixir Pharmacia du Amor knows just what you need.
Suffering an existential crisis? The pain of heartbreak? Psychic bail out? Disconnect between mind and body? General malaise or melancholia? The Royale Elixir Pharmacia du Amor is a poetry pharmacy that prescribes just the right poem to heal you. Poets, writers, artists, and musicians will listen carefully to your symptoms, assess your situation, and provide you with a poem scrolled in a pill bottle, along with detailed directions on how to consume it. Contact us for more details. Love is limitless. The Royale Elixir Pharmacia du Amor knows just what you need.
LETTER-WRITING REVIVALISTS, 2009
Before the word, there was the letter. LWR is a performance writing project preaching the fine & lost art of letter-writing by Evan Plummer, Amanda Leigh Lichtenstein, and Maritza Mosquera, April 2009. We put up a tent, stitched our yeses in blue, and preached from the Book of Neruda, Hughes, and Heaney. Humboldt Park community members wrote love letters to god, to friends in jail, to our president, and sent them using original, letter-pressed Revival envelopes and stamps. This is all about the love the word, the love of the letter. LWR is ready to set up a tent wherever you are!
Before the word, there was the letter. LWR is a performance writing project preaching the fine & lost art of letter-writing by Evan Plummer, Amanda Leigh Lichtenstein, and Maritza Mosquera, April 2009. We put up a tent, stitched our yeses in blue, and preached from the Book of Neruda, Hughes, and Heaney. Humboldt Park community members wrote love letters to god, to friends in jail, to our president, and sent them using original, letter-pressed Revival envelopes and stamps. This is all about the love the word, the love of the letter. LWR is ready to set up a tent wherever you are!
PARTICLE MONOLOGUES: NOTES TO A UNIVERSAL YOU 2008
In this multi-city conversation, a team of artists write poetic snippets addressed to a "universal you" on tags with string. We give these snippets to each other via post, and then tie each other's snippets in spots throughout our respective cities -- Chicago, Oakland, NYC-- to lamp posts, bicycle handlebars, street lights, fences, and tree limbs. The project is based on Rachel McIntire's theory of "particle monologues" -- the notion that each of us carries and rehearses the lost fragments of conversation addressed to a particular "you" -- when that person leaves, dies, disappears, we are still left speaking to that person -- addressing unrequited, undiscovered messages from within. Here, in this project, we get to expose, expunge, exalt the voice inside each of us that speaks to another.
In this multi-city conversation, a team of artists write poetic snippets addressed to a "universal you" on tags with string. We give these snippets to each other via post, and then tie each other's snippets in spots throughout our respective cities -- Chicago, Oakland, NYC-- to lamp posts, bicycle handlebars, street lights, fences, and tree limbs. The project is based on Rachel McIntire's theory of "particle monologues" -- the notion that each of us carries and rehearses the lost fragments of conversation addressed to a particular "you" -- when that person leaves, dies, disappears, we are still left speaking to that person -- addressing unrequited, undiscovered messages from within. Here, in this project, we get to expose, expunge, exalt the voice inside each of us that speaks to another.
HEART CHARTS, 2008
In 2008, I kept weekly charts of obsessions related to my practice as a poet. I also exchanged blank charts with other artists/writers and asked them to log their own obsessions. This was an on-going effort to chart the heart.
In 2008, I kept weekly charts of obsessions related to my practice as a poet. I also exchanged blank charts with other artists/writers and asked them to log their own obsessions. This was an on-going effort to chart the heart.