Anthony Cody – Everywhere I sleep, 4 of 15

Anthony Cody

Everywhere I sleep, I see Dust Bowl (4 of 15)

Multimedia collage, "In the new America"

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Anthony Cody’s artist statement:

For 15 consecutive nights, in the summer of 2019, I would scour the public domain for images and sounds related to the Dust Bowl era. Very often, I would return to the imagery of Dorothea Lange in her efforts to document the Dust Bowl via the Farm Security Administration. My final waking moments of each day were centered on meditating upon my discoveries, and each morning I’d awaken, have a cup of coffee, and construct a poem. As an homage to the series, I decided I would create each poem on a 15 inch by 15 inch page. The series centers around my current work, which focuses upon the Dust Bowl, climate change, whiteness, capitalism, and technology.

Anthony Cody – Everywhere I sleep, 3 of 15

Anthony Cody

Everywhere I sleep, I see Dust Bowl (3 of 15)

Multimedia collage, “If you owned a few of these you could make me a visit.”

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Anthony Cody’s artist statement:

For 15 consecutive nights, in the summer of 2019, I would scour the public domain for images and sounds related to the Dust Bowl era. Very often, I would return to the imagery of Dorothea Lange in her efforts to document the Dust Bowl via the Farm Security Administration. My final waking moments of each day were centered on meditating upon my discoveries, and each morning I’d awaken, have a cup of coffee, and construct a poem. As an homage to the series, I decided I would create each poem on a 15 inch by 15 inch page. The series centers around my current work, which focuses upon the Dust Bowl, climate change, whiteness, capitalism, and technology.

Anthony Cody – Everywhere I Sleep, 2 of 15

Anthony Cody

Everywhere I sleep, I see Dust Bowl (2 of 15)

Multimedia collage, after Dorothea Lange’s photo “Between Tulare and Fresno on U.S. 99. Highway gas tanks and signboard approaching town. See general caption” (1939)

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Anthony Cody’s artist statement:

For 15 consecutive nights, in the summer of 2019, I would scour the public domain for images and sounds related to the Dust Bowl era. Very often, I would return to the imagery of Dorothea Lange in her efforts to document the Dust Bowl via the Farm Security Administration. My final waking moments of each day were centered on meditating upon my discoveries, and each morning I’d awaken, have a cup of coffee, and construct a poem. As an homage to the series, I decided I would create each poem on a 15 inch by 15 inch page. The series centers around my current work, which focuses upon the Dust Bowl, climate change, whiteness, capitalism, and technology.

Anthony Cody – Everywhere I Sleep, 1 of 15

Anthony Cody

Everywhere I sleep, I see Dust Bowl (1 of 15)

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Anthony Cody’s artist statement:

For 15 consecutive nights, in the summer of 2019, I would scour the public domain for images and sounds related to the Dust Bowl era. Very often, I would return to the imagery of Dorothea Lange in her efforts to document the Dust Bowl via the Farm Security Administration. My final waking moments of each day were centered on meditating upon my discoveries, and each morning I’d awaken, have a cup of coffee, and construct a poem. As an homage to the series, I decided I would create each poem on a 15 inch by 15 inch page. The series centers around my current work, which focuses upon the Dust Bowl, climate change, whiteness, capitalism, and technology.

Marathon #1 – October 2019

Marathon #1

October 1-31, 2019

Featuring Anthony Cody, Jeffrey Schultz, and Marisol Baca.

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Anthony Cody

October 2-16, 2019

MFA Creative Writing, Fresno State, 2020; BA English, Fresno State, 2004

Anthony Cody is the author of Borderland Apocrypha (Omnidawn, 2020), which won the 2018 Omnidawn Open Book Prize. He is a CantoMundo fellow, an associate poetry editor for Noemi Press, and he currently serves as a graduate fellow in the Laureate Lab Visual Wordist Studio at Fresno State, where he studies poetry in the MFA Creative Writing Program.

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Jeffrey Schultz

October 9-23, 2019

MFA Creative Writing, University of Oregon, 2003; BA English, Fresno State, 2001

Jeffrey Schultz is the author of two National Poetry Series selections: Civil Twilight (Ecco, 2017) and What Ridiculous Things We Could Ask of Each Other (Georgia, 2014). Along with his wife and partner-in-all-things, Leah, he lives in Los Angeles, surrounded by a seemingly ever-increasing brood of rescue animals.

 

Marisol Baca

October 16-30, 2019

MFA Creative Writing, Cornell University, 2007; BA English, Fresno State, 2003

Marisol Baca is the author of Tremor (Three Mile Harbor, 2018). In 2019, she was named Fresno Poet Laureate. She is the first woman to hold this appointment, and her poem “The Origin of Certain Place Names: for Fresno” was designated the city’s official poem. She is an English professor at Fresno City College, and she has established a community for women writers of color that seeks to support and uplift their writing endeavors.

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