Will Alexander

Beginning in 2001, LVNG was published by Flood Editions, a small non-profit press founded by Michael O’Leary and Devin Johnston. Available online and in communities across the country, LVNG’s primary purpose is “to provide a location for the ideas and aspirations of a collection of writers.” The journal’s unorthodox and informal distribution method – placing copies of LVNG in buses and trains, grocery stores and doctor’s offices – offered people an opportunity to read contemporary poetry without having to purchase a poetry magazine. Later joined by Peter O’Leary and Joel Felix, LVNG produced eleven issues, the last of which appeared in 2004.*

Exhibition book for a showing of works by Kerry James Marshall at the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, May 6-June 28, 1998. Marshall works in the genre of history painting, seeking to "reread the legacy of the Civil Rights Movement and the whole of African-American history in relation to a very complex present" (Acknowledgements). The exhibit also included prints, sculpture, and video. Includes intepretive essays by Cheryl I. Harris and Richard J. Powell, with extracts from the writings of Will Alexander.