Cover Image Credit: A detail of “Community Revisited” by Laura Tafe.

I am thrilled to have had my artwork and poetry published in the latest Poetry X Collage journal (Vol:2). This journal features the work of some of the many fantastic artists who I had the pleasure to meet during this years Poetry & Collage residency hosted online by the Kolaj Institute. What an experience, I learned a lot!!!

This journal features six pieces of my visual poetry “The Supposed Stranger” & “Lost”, “Monkey Business” & “Impotent Computational Rage”, “Ghost In Your Orbit” & “A Deeper Season”; plus one collaborative poem with the artist Rosemary Rae entitled “Some Days Flicker”.

For a statment by the publishers read below:

“PoetryXCollage is a printed journal of artwork and writing which operates at the intersection of poetry and collage. We are interested in found poetry, blackout poetry, collage poems, haikus, centos, response collages, response poems, word scrambles, concrete poetry, scatter collage poems, and other poems and artwork that inhabit this world.

Each issue presents six movements of work by artists and curators. Page spreads are meant to be free zones of thinking where the contributor has chosen all elements of the layout: font, image place, composition, etc.

The initial volumes were produced by participants in Kolaj Institute’s Poetry & Collage Residency in March 2022 and April 2022 under the direction of Christopher Kurts with support from Ric Kasini Kadour and Christopher Byrne.”

PoetryXCollage Volume Two Features:

Anthony D. Kelly
Castlebar, County Mayo, Ireland
(@Freeformanto)

Carla E. Reyes
Astoria, New York, USA
(@carlacrafts)

Janice McDonald
Denver, Colorado, USA
(@janicemcdonaldart)

Samantha Brown
Blackrock, County Louth, Ireland
(@samantha.bmcg)

Laura Tafe
Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA
(@LJTafeMD)

Collaborations:
by Cathy Greenhalgh(@covidcollagechronicles), Thomas Mayer (@klettwandel),
Rosemary Rae (@rosemarydesign), Anthony D. Kelly,
& Cheryl Chudyk (@stitchpixie)

To find out more, purchase copies of the journal, or submit to later volumes click here.

I am delighted to be invited (did that rhyme?) to present work and poetry that resulted from my recent time spent on the Kolaj Institutes Poetry & Collage Residency. I will be presenting alongside the other artists who took part to celebrate the launch of the new Poetry X Collage Journal publication.

This will be a great event, see details below:

KOLAJ LIVE ONLINE

PoetryxCollage Journal Launch

Thursday, August 11th, 6PM EDT / 11PM GMT

"In January 2022, we issued a call to artists for a Poetry & Collage Residency and received so many excellent responses that we organized a series of three residencies. The artists heard from guest speakers Kevin Sampsell, Renée Reizman, Rod T. Boyer, and the Poetry Foundation's Fred Sasaki and were challenged to create page spreads to be included in a forthcoming book of collage and poetry.

In the residency, we challenged artists to move beyond taxonomical debates. Ric Kasini Kadour said, "What is a poem? We do not need to have a singular answer to that question. Individually we must each answer that question for ourselves. In practice, every poem we make will be an example of what a poem is. In considering other people's work, we should ask ourselves, How is this a poem?" During the residencies, artists interrogated each other's artwork, collaborated, and shared ideas. And at the end of it, they sent us more page spreads than could fit into a single book. Impressed and moved by the volume and quality of cultural output and a deep belief that this practice--however you want to describe it--at the intersection of collage and poetry deserves a platform, we decided to create a new journal dedicated to it. Christopher Kurts named it PoetryXCollage and said, “How do you pronounce it? You can say the letter ‘X’ or it can stand for the words ‘and,’ ‘in collaboration with,’ or ‘featuring.’ The X is an intersection, a crossroads, or an equation. X marks the spot.”

Join Kolaj Institute and several of the contributing artists— Anthony D Kelly (Castlebar, Co. Mayo, Ireland), Carla E Reyes (Astoria, NY, USA), Cathy Greenhalgh (London, England, United Kingdom), Cheryl Chudyk (Kirkland, WA, USA), Janice McDonald (Denver, CO, USA), Jennifer Roche (Chicago, IL, USA), Samantha Brown (Blackrock, Co. Louth, Ireland), Thomas Mayer (Berlin, Germany)—in a discussion surrounding the residency, their artwork, and the intersection of collage and poetry. Artists will share images of their work and read their poetry. The event is free & open to everyone. Registration is required.

To register for this amazing event click here:

For more from the wonderful Kolaj Institute visit: http://www.kolajinstitute.org/

For more of the work of Anthony D Kelly follow the words: www.freeformtrouble.com