2016 was an unusual year. For many of us, the year ended in heartbreak and a sense of impending disaster. You have to be a bit strange to really love politics, yet it's important. I curated a major exhibit here at the Library, Lost Cultural Venues of Detroit. As usual, I kept myself busy.
I did a live drawing session at MOCAD as part of the Monster Drawing Rally. I performed in 8 shows with the Spaceband. I did several photography projects, documenting the building of the Q-LINE train tracks and the last days of the Big Book Store.
This year’s poems included such titles as myth math, caution! caution!, Air Theatre and din. In Numbers 19 and 20, the poem titles were random times, such as 2:20 am or 5:30 pm. Personal favorites included untidy times in Number 3, the amnesiac in Number 4, smoky tarantella in Number 7. Old growth in Number 9 and Triumph in Number 11.
The 30th annual Dedication Issue included the poems For Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt, Adhesives for Art Young, Study for Mimi Parent, the follower for Peter Lorre, Hungry Blues for James P. Johnson and The Monsters are in Place for the poor people.
SURREAL THEATRE explored revolutionary science, noise pollution, animals as knowledgeable beings, life is a feast, then too, hiding and the hidden. The SURREAL THEATRE in issue number 12 used a unique format. Favorites include the comics in numbers 2, 4, 14 and 16.