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Jennifer Karmin’s multidisciplinary work has transpired across the U.S., Cuba, Japan, Kenya, and Europe.  Venues for these pieces include: the Poetry Project, the Walker Art Center, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, and Woodland Pattern Book Center.  The author of the text-sound epic Aaaaaaaaaaalice, her poetry is anthologized in The &NOW Awards: The Best Innovative Writing, Come Together: Imagine Peace, and A Sing Economy.  Ongoing collaborations and public performances are documented in the handmade editions Walking Poem, Evacuated: Disembodying Katrina, 4000 Words 4000 Dead + Revolutionary Optimism: An American Elegy, and The Sexual Organs of the IRS co-authored with Bernadette Mayer.  Since 2005, she has curated the Red Rover Series in Chicago.  She teaches creative writing to immigrants at Truman College and has been a Visiting Writer at Naropa University, Oberlin College, California Institute of the Arts, plus a myriad of sites.  Her pamphlet is an excerpt from a series, originally published in I’ll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women (Les Figues Press, 2012).