On Chapbooks and Context
I'm shopping out my little chapbook of found poems titled "20" to find it a publishing home. It is a short manuscript erased from Jules Verne's "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea." Once it finds a green light, I hope to put together an aquarium tour and read the poems in the darkness of fish and the deep. In putting the chapbook together, I spent time in the library of the Poetry Foundation here in Chicago. It is a pretty remarkable room, lit by sunlight and packed with poetry boo