3rd Annual 30/30/30 Poetry Month Series :: Inspiration, Community, Tradition :: Day 1 :: Introduction and CHY RYAN SPAIN on KAREN FINLEY
The Operating System is thrilled to welcome you to our 3rd Annual 30-on-30-in-30 Poetry Month Celebration! In this wildly popular series, begun in 2012, we invite creative people from a range of backgrounds to share a story about how their
ART :: NOTES FROM THE BUREAU OF SELF-RECOGNITION : CHLOË BASS
Exit Strata is pleased as punch to introduce you to interdisciplinary conceptual artist Chloë Bass, who will be sending us Field Notes from her upcoming journey across the pond as she continues her ongoing work with The Bureau of Self-Recognition.
POETRY MONTH 30/30/30 : Inspiration, Community, Tradition : DAY 10 :: Sarah Pinder on Libby Scheier
I encountered Libby Scheier’s work for the first time in my late teens, when I first moved to Toronto. It was a perfectly synchronous moment – I was so hungry for directness, and Scheier serves it up in spades. I devoured everything of hers I could get my hands on, treating the collections as guidebooks on possible routes to the places I wanted to go in my own work. She wrote so angry, and so tender, and candidly addressed relationships, violence and agency in ways that are paint-strippingly clear.