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four convocentos
maryhope|whitehead|lee, Claudia Nunez de Ibieta & Ryan Greene

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These four CONVOCENTOS (or conversational centos) were created at Cesar Chavez Park on April 10th under a blooming palo verde as a part of the collaborative project EL L¡BROTORIO [¡!] PR!NT RUN (more info here), which is a bilingual open-air book lab that we set up in public space around the Phoenix Metro Area approximately once a month to make books outdoors with each other and anyone else in the community. We bring a micro-library of books with us as well as solar panels, a printer/scanner, a typewriter, and supplies for collage/bookmaking. One thread that has emerged is a practice of “transcriptional poetics” in which we create poems piecing together bits of our conversations with lines read aloud from various books in our micro-library while also adding additional intervened text.

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maryhope|whitehead|lee is a collagist, poet, zinester, bookmaker, and apprentice translator. She is an active member of the Cardboard House Press Phoenix Cartonera Collective, a co-conspirator at F*%K IF I KNOW//BOOKS and an occasional couch surfer at no.good.home. A descendant of the ship, she resides in the wake.

Claudia Nuñez de Ibieta is a bookseller and Spanish/English interpreter and translator. She is also interested in book-making and is a member of the Phoenix Cartonera Collective. She has lived in Los Angeles CA, Santiago Chile, and Tempe AZ.

Ryan Greene is a translator, book-farmer, and poet from Phoenix, Arizona. He’s a co-conspirator at F*%K IF I KNOW//BOOKS and a housemate at no.good.home. Like Collier, the ground he stands on is not his ground.