Michael Smith

From the back cover:"The Studio Reader pulls back the curtain to reveal the activities behind artistic production. What does it mean to be in the studio? What is the space of the studio in the artist's practice? How do studios help artists envision their agency and, beyond that, their entire lives? This forward-thinking anthology brings together artists, curators, each of whom locates the studio both spatially and conceptually at the center of an art world that increasingly crosses institutions, markets, and disciplines."

The Chicago Review is an international journal of writing and critical exchange published quarterly by the Division of Humanities of the University of Chicago. The first part of this double-issue is a celebration of the work of poet Lisa Robertson. The poem by Eric Elshtain is a collaboration with Gnoetry, a computerized language synthesizer that develops poems from an analytic, statistical process once certain parameters (source texts, stanzas, length of lines) are input into the system.

The Suburban is a space in a home in Oak Park. In this home, artist contribute and show their work and have total freedom to do so.

Journal of international poems, essays, interviews, critical essays, fiction, plus reviews and notes, published quarterly