What an honor! My book Games for Children is on the short list of the Chicago Review of Books awards! Thanks @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social !

or Barbara Kruger whose work on a piece by piece level is very legible, and probably meant to be read and wrestled with, but if you've ever seen her work at a museum setting is set up in ways that make reading it punishing because of angles, distance, or scope

so okay, maybe nearly none of that is meant to be read or CAN be read. but what about this piece by Susan Howe, where nearly every letter is recognizable under scrutiny but one has the sense we aren't truly meant to "read" it.

in the world of visual art, text is often used as a visual object only and is not meant to be read at all, certainly not in its entirety check out Glenn Ligon's "Mirror"

i basically never post my visual work anywhere but on instagram (@keithing_it_real) but this is a piece i made a couple months ago. it's lasercut on cardstock and it's based on a geometric puzzle designed by 10th century Persian mathematician Abul Wafa (Abu al-Wafa' al-Buzjani)

My poems (including the red x)

I was chosen as one of Newcity Lit's Lit 50! Look at me not knowing what to do with my hands!

Honored to be selected (and represent Chicago—can't believe I had never been to this part of the Harold Washington Library!)

https://lit.newcity.com/2023/08/01/lit-50-2023-poetry/

Very late to share this but last year my first flash fiction piece ever was picked up by the Fairy Tale Review!

It's a weird story about Mormo, a boogie monster (of Greek myth) when he was still a child

https://keithswilson.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/The-Birth-of-Mormo-Fairy-Tale-Review.pdf