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Moon & Swan<\/em> by Rosemary Rae
each 4.5\u201dx 6\u201d; two collages with old photo, fabric, pencil, torn book pages; stitched; 2022. Courtesy of the artist. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

PROJECT OVERVIEW<\/p>\n\n\n\n

POETRYXCOLLAGE<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

It says something that in the Poetry Foundation\u2019s Glossary of Poetic Terms, \u201ccollage\u201d is one of the few visual art terms they define. Perhaps this is because so many poets have also been collage artists. In recent years, we\u2019ve seen exhibitions from John Ashbery and Marc Strand, whose collage \u201cdates back to his student days at Yale in the 1950s where he studied with Josef Albers, the renowned Bauhaus artist and color theorist, and also Bernard Chaet.\u201d Arthur Solway recalled, \u201cThough we were eight thousand miles apart we would have weekly Skype calls, and he was always eager and excited to show me the latest batch of collages he was working on.\u201d A 2017 book of Helen Adam\u2019s collages, which fellow poet Robert Duncan referred to as \u201cpleasing weird\u201d, has sold out. Keith Waldrop, Barbara Guest, John Wieners, Norma Cole, the list is long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Poets have routinely appeared in the pages of the printed magazine. Kolaj 30<\/a> featured an Artist Portfolio of Denver, Colorado-based poet and English professor Brian Barker. In Kolaj 27<\/a>, we remembered poet and mail artist Steve Dalachinsky (1946-2019). In Kolaj 24<\/a>, Brazilian artist Samuel Eller combined visual poetry and process poetry, contemporary collage, and experimental design. Kolaj 13<\/a> has an article about the book Flit<\/em>, Dennis Milam Bensie’s poetry mashups of classic literature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Online we wrote about an exhibition featuring the work of Mary Jo Bang<\/a>, “a celebrated poet who, for most of her life, has secretly made artwork.” Karen Green “transitions seamlessly between textual, visual, and back” in her book, Bough Down<\/em><\/a>, which Ariane Fairlie described as “a cross between poetry and art book.” We also wrote about Cecil Touchon’s Quarantine Collage Poetry<\/em><\/a> book, Nuclear Wastes Poetry and Collage zine, and countless others. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In \u201cWhere The Sun Casts No Shadow: Postcards from the Creative Crossroads of Quito, Ecuador<\/a>\u201d, an exhibition that debuted at the Wilson Museum of the Southern Vermont Arts Center in November 2019, the poetry of Mar\u00eda Clara Sharupi Jua in Spanish, English, and Shuar hung next to art from Quito\u2019s El Club de Collage. (This exhibition will travel to the Knoxville Museum of Art in Fall 2022). At Kolaj LIVE Milwaukee<\/a> in 2021, we hosted a session by Ren\u00e9e Reizman on her “Deconstructing Legalese<\/a>” project where she made found poetry using legal documents. During the Cut It Up Salon<\/a> in Milwaukee, the participants from Reizman’s session read aloud their found legalese poetry. Clark Lunberry, who is known for his large-scale, site-specific art and poetry installations on water, spoke about turning a collection of postcards inherited from his father into “PostCardPoems<\/a>“. Readings have also been a part of Kolaj Fest New Orleans<\/a>, particularly at “Why Is That Dinosaur Holding a Vacuum & Other Stories from the World of Collage<\/a>” in 2018 and “Collage Party at Art Klub<\/a>” in 2019 and “Show & Tell<\/a>” in 2022 that was hosted by writer and collagist Kevin Sampsell who read from his book I Made an Accident<\/a><\/em>.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

All this is to say that Kolaj has been circling around the intersection of poetry and collage throughout its history and yet it wasn’t really until Rod T. Boyer’s article in Kolaj 32, “Mind the Gap: Collision and Context in Haiku and Collage<\/a>“, that we began to appreciate the degree to which these two mediums interacted with each other. In that article Boyer compares the disjunction that occurs in haiku with a similar phenomenon in collage. A light went off and we decided to organize a series of residencies with the goal of exploring the intersection of collage and poetry. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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, Ren\u00e9e 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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, \u201cHow do you pronounce it? You can say the letter \u2018X\u2019 or it can stand for the words \u2018and,\u2019 \u2018in collaboration with,\u2019 or \u2018featuring.\u2019 The X is an intersection, a crossroads, or an equation. X marks the spot.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

PoetryXCollage extends Kolaj Institute’s philosophy that books and publications are natural places for collage, as explored in a 2019 symposium and catalog<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

PoetryXCollage soft debuted at Kolaj Fest New Orleans in June 2022 and officially launched July 15, 2022. A third round of the residency will take place in September 2022. In 2023, Kolaj Institute will open up submissions for future volumes of PoetryXCollage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PURCHASE THE JOURNALS<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

NEWS & EVENTS<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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KOLAJ LIVE ONLINE<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PoetryXCollage LIVE Event<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Thursday, August 11th, 6PM EDT<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Join Kolaj Institute and several of the contributing artists\u2014Anthony D Kelly (Castle Bar, 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)\u2014in 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LEARN MORE<\/a> | REGISTER<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

ABOUT KOLAJ LIVE ONLINE<\/strong>
Kolaj LIVE Online is a series of virtual programs in the form of forums, panels, workshops, artist talks, studio visits, and other activities that allow people to come together, learn and talk about collage, and connect in real time to the collage community. Our goal is to bring the community together in a spirit of mutual support and fellowship.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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JOURNAL<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PoetryXCollage Volumes One & Two<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Initial volumes are being produced by participants in Kolaj Institute\u2019s Poetry & Collage Residency in March 2022 and April 2022 under the direction of Christopher Kurts with support from Ric Kasini Kadour and Christopher Byrne. These will be available in July 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PoetryXCollage Volume One features work by Rosemary Rae (El Cajon, California, USA), Cathy Greenhalgh (London, United Kingdom), Jennifer Roche (Chicago, Illinois, USA), doriana diaz (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA), Thomas Mayer (Berlin, Germany), and Cheryl Chudyk (Kirkland, Washington, USA)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PoetryXCollage Volume Two features work by Anthony D. Kelly (Castle Bar, County Mayo, Ireland), Carla Reyes (Astoria, New York, USA), Janice McDonald (Denver, Colorado, USA), Samantha Brown (Blackrock, County Louth, Ireland), Laura Tafe (Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA), and Collaborations by Cathy Greenhalgh, Thomas Mayer, Rosemary Rae, Anthony D. Kelly, & Cheryl Chudyk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LEARN MORE<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

PROJECT HISTORY<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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I Set Your Home on Fire<\/em> (from the series Nine Weeks) by \u00c9milie Karuna
6\u2033x6\u2033; solid color paper, washi paper, ink; 2020. Courtesy of the artist.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

APRIL 2022<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Poetry & Collage Residency Round Two<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Kolaj Institute is excited to announce the twelve artists selected to participate in the second round of the Poetry & Collage Residency. It says something that in the Poetry Foundation\u2019s Glossary of Poetic Terms, \u201ccollage\u201d is one of the few visual art terms they define. Perhaps this is because so many poets have also been collage artists. In recent years, we\u2019ve seen exhibitions from John Ashbery and Marc Strand, whose collage \u201cdates back to his student days at Yale in the 1950s where he studied with Josef Albers, the renowned Bauhaus artist and color theorist, and also Bernard Chaet.\u201d Arthur Solway recalled, \u201cThough we were eight thousand miles apart we would have weekly Skype calls, and he was always eager and excited to show me the latest batch of collages he was working on.\u201d A 2017 book of Helen Adam\u2019s collages, which fellow poet Robert Duncan referred to as \u201cpleasing weird\u201d, has sold out. Keith Waldrop, Barbara Guest, John Wieners, Norma Cole, the list is long. Meet the participating artists HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adam Farcus (Urbana, IL, USA) | Carolina Martins (Lisbon, , Portugal) | \u00c9milie Karuna (Montreal, QC, Canada) | Jenn Arras (Brooklyn, NY, USA) | Jessa Dupuis (Cobble Hill, BC, Canada) | John Rigney (Buffalo, NY, USA) | Julie Byers (Coffs Harbour, NSW, Australia) | Kaitlyn O’Brien (Albuquerque, NM, USA) | Kerrie More (Kalispell, MT, USA) | sad\u00e9 powell (Staten Island, NY, USA) | Yoomee Ko (New York, NY, USA) | Zoe Lambrinakos-Raymond (Montreal, QC, Canada)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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MARCH 2022<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Poetry & Collage Residency Round One<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Kolaj Institute is pleased to announce the twelve artists selected to participate in the first round of the Poetry & Collage Residency. In several virtual meetings over four weeks and through ongoing, online discussion, artists will leave the residency with a deeper understanding of the intersection of collage and poetry. Individual participants will each create multiple page spreads that will be included in a forthcoming book of collage and poetry from Kolaj Institute. Meet the participating artists HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anthony D Kelly (Castle Bar, Co. Mayo, Ireland) | Carla E Reyes (Astoria, NY, USA) | Cathy Greenhalgh (London, England, United Kingdom) | Cheryl Chudyk (Kirkland, WA, USA) | doriana diaz (Philadelphia, PA, USA) | Jake Weigel (Murphys, CA, USA) | Janice McDonald (Denver, CO, USA) | Jennifer Roche (Chicago, IL, USA) | Laura Tafe (Lebanon, NH, USA) | Rosemary Rae (El Cajon, CA, USA) | Samantha Brown (Blackrock, Co. Louth, Ireland) | Thomas Mayer (Berlin, Germany)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ORGANIZERS<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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ABOUT KOLAJ INSTITUTE<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The mission of Kolaj Institute is to support artists, curators, and writers who seek to study, document, & disseminate ideas that deepen our understanding of collage as a medium, a genre, a community, and a 21st century movement. We operate a number of initiatives meant to bring together community, investigate critical issues, and raise collage\u2019s standing in the art world. WEBSITE<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ABOUT KOLAJ MAGAZINE<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Kolaj Magazine is a quarterly, printed, art magazine reviewing and surveying contemporary collage with an international perspective. We are interested in collage as a medium, a genre, a community, and a 21st century art movement. WEBSITE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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