Shroud

Description:

Jen Hofer is a Los Angeles-based poet, translator, social justice interpreter, teacher, knitter, book-maker, public letter-writer, urban cyclist, and co-founder of the language justice and literary activism collaborative Antena. Her latest translations include the homemade chapbook En las maravillas/In Wonder (Libros Antena/Antena Books, 2012) and Ivory Black, a translation of Negro marfil by Myriam Moscona (Les Figues Press 2011). Her recent and forthcoming books are available from a range of small presses, including Action Books, Atelos, Dusie Books, Insert Press, Kenning Editions, Litmus Press, Palm Press, and Subpress. She teaches poetics, translation and bookmaking at CalArts and Otis College. Jill Magi works in text, textile, and image. She is the author of Threads, Torchwood, Cadastral Map, and SLOT, as well as numerous handmade books. Visual work has been exhibited at Columbia College, The Textile Arts Center, the Brooklyn Arts Council, and apexart. Her essays on art, writing, and culture have been published in The Brooklyn Rail, The Eco-Language Reader, and Letters to Poets. An extended essay on a text-image theory/curriculum is forthcoming from Furniture in Motion/Rattapallax in 2013. She teaches at Goddard College, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Columbia College.

subjects: Artists' books,  Violence,  Pictorial works,  Booksellers and bookselling,  Bombings,  Iraq War, 2003-2011,  Protest movements,  Books and reading in art,  Intellectual life,  Social conditions,  Censorship,  In art,  War and civilization,  Vehicle bombs,  Terrorism in art,  Al-Mutanabbi Street Coalition

People: Jen Hofer

Places: California,  Valencia,  Iraq,  Baghdad,  Shāriʻ al-Mutanabbī (Baghdad, Iraq),  Santa Clarita

Times: 21st century