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Kristine Snodgrass, Visual Arts Editor
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May 2022
Angela Caporaso
Angela Caporaso was born in 1962. A visual artist from Caserta (Italy), she began to take an interest in figurative arts in the eighties, exhibiting repeatedly both in Italy and abroad.   Angela Caporaso's art has always been characterized by a constant research and experimentation.
Since her first exhibitions she has revealed a constant strain towards new expressive languages.   This constant research led Angela to contaminate sign with colour, font with image, literature with painting, as though one single medium was not sufficient to express her complex imaginative world.   She has worked on the words of the main contemporary writers and has dedicated some of her exhibitions to Albert Camus, Emily Dickinson, Pier Vittorio Tondelli.   Influenced by Pop Art, she has inserted in her works the typical comics “bubbles”, as well as advertising references, decontextualized and transformed into a proper artistic language.   She has worked with unrecyclable waste material, humble and inert, which has acquired new sense and meaning thanks to the artist’s intervention.   Angela Caporaso focusing on artists books and visual poetry, working with the mediums of collage, trash-art and, more recently, digital format.  Many of her works are part of both public and private collections.
Selected exhibitions
1999 : “Le mille Emily “ Solo Exhibition Homage to Emily Dickinson, with a presentation by Luigi Romolo Carrino. Limatola (BN) - Italy
2002 : “Tondelli Imperfetti” Solo Exhibition Homage to Pier Vittorio Tondelli -  Tenax,  Florence, with an interview with author by Marino Sinibaldi for Fahrenheit - Radio3 
2007 : "Kauffmann 0.7...trash art" Solo Exhibition for The Bicentennial of Angelica Kauffmann's death - Palazzo Fazio, Capua (CE) . Catalogue by Associazione Anna Jervolino, Caserta - Italy
2008 : "Nuova Voce-La Fiera del levante adotta Telethon" Collective Exhibitions curated by Fondazione Giorgio Correggiari - Fiera del Levante di Bari - Italy
2012 : "Between the second and third millennium" retrospective (anthological) exhibition of Angela Caporaso - Bourbon Military Quarter, Casagiove (Ce ) - Italy
2013 : “Di Carta/Papermade” Collective Exhibitions of Artist's Book  curated by Valeria Bertesina - Museo Civico Palazzo Fogazzaro, Schio (VI), Italy.
2016 : “Verbal Glasses”  Solo Exhibition of Visual Poetry - Frammenti d’Arte Monteverde Vecchio, Rome - Italy . Catalog published by Youcanprint - presentation by Maurizio Spatola (collaboration by Monica Olivieri).
2017 : “1cartolinaXmagritte” Collective Exhibition curated by Tania Sofia Lorandi - Oratorio di Santo Stefano,  Casalmaggiore (CR ) - Italy
2018 : “Oggetto Libro / Book Object” Collective Exhibitions of Artist's Book  curated by Susanna Vallebona - Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense, Milano - Italy
2020 : “Lettere S.com.Poste” Collective Exhibitions curated by Duccio Scheggi - Michela Mascarucci - Galleria della Fondazione Il Bisonte, Florence - Italy
2020 : “IoTuNoi-Add&Return” Collective Exhibition of Artist's Book curated by Lamberto Caravita - Museo CABA - Dart Villa Verlicchi , Lavezzola (RA) - Italy
2021: “Alphabet in Decay"  International Exhibition of Visual Poetry Beyond Language curated by Timglaset Editions - Etkbooks Gallery, Bern - Switzerland
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​Bibliography

2011 : Tra secondo e terzo millennio – Opere in catalogo di Angela Caporaso. Monographic catalogue - 50 pages - col. ill. - 20 x 30 cm - Ed. Amande.    This publication presents a selection of works produced between 1993 and 2011.
2013 Le Printemps - artist’s book by Angela Caporaso ed. Amande, published in May 2013, centenary of the first performance of Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps ((Paris – May 1913) printed in numbered edition in a limited printing of 25 copies signed by the artist and numbered from 1 to 25 . A literary contribution of Silvia Longo. 
2014 : Angela Caporaso’s visual poetry chapbooks - Dan Warner's "This is Visual Poetry" series, USA.
2016 : “Occhiali verbali” published by Youcanprint – Italy;  curated by Maurizio Spatola (collaboration by Monica Olivieri).
2021 “Sul fondo del bianco. 5 poete verbovisuali” Bertoni Editore - Italy ; preface by Stefano Taccone. The volume is edited by Giorgio Moio. 
2022 : “The Relationships” Timglaset Editions - Malmö, Sweden ; "Il Dubbio"  Gap Riot Press – Toronto, Canada


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February 2022
Charlotte Jung
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 Charlotte Jung is a psychologist turned visual minimalist poet and experimental playwright. She’s originally from Stockholm, Sweden and today she divides her time between the Stockholm countryside and her adopted hometown Chicago. Charlotte published her first poetry collection C in 2019, and publishings since then include; MBRYO (Puddles of Sky Press), (SEED) (Timglaset Editions), HOLE BEING (NoPress), CO2 (nOIR:Z) and ABCDE (Trombone). Coming 2022, RED RULES bent (Viktlösheten Press) and FINAL FIGURES (NonPlusUltra). Charlotte’s poetry has also been featured in various magazines and journals. Please see www.charlottejungwriter.com for more information about Charlotte and her writing.



​This series of visual poems, WOMEN POWER, was made in the fall of 2021, after the Taliban takeover of Kabul, Afghanistan, and the refugee crisis that followed. All the despair, deep fear and sadness caused by an oppressive patriarchal structure yet again seizing authoritarian power, stirred something in me – and pouring all this darkness onto the white page became a way of processing this difficult and deeply tragic situation. In making the poems I also realized that they in some ways were a reflection of my own deep-down sorrow. A sadness I carry from having to, as a woman as well as growing up as a girl, many times hide my true self in order to accommodate and appear unthreatening. There was also the paradoxical fact how we as women in the western culture many times dress/undress in order to please, and signal, sometimes in an indirect way, our submissive status, and by doing so end up exploiting our female body. Seen from that perspective the series could be seen as commenting on the choice some Muslim women make. In order to honor their faith and express their piety they shield their bodies from the male gaze, a brave decision in some cultures and countries today. ​

​Megan Merchant
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Megan Merchant (she/her) lives in the tall pines of Prescott, AZ with her husband and two children. She holds an M.F.A. degree in International Creative Writing from UNLV and is the author of three full-length poetry collections with Glass Lyre Press: Gravel Ghosts (2016), The Dark’s Humming (2015 Lyrebird Award Winner, 2017), Grief Flowers (2018), four chapbooks, and a children’s book, These Words I Shaped for You (Philomel Books). Her latest book, Before the Fevered Snow, was released in April 2020 with Stillhouse Press. She was awarded the 2016-2017 COG Literary Award, judged by Juan Felipe Herrera, the 2018 Beullah Rose Poetry Prize, second place in the Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry, and most recently the Inaugural Michelle Boisseau Prize. She is the Editor of Pirene’s Fountain and offers private mentorship opportunities, editing services, and manuscript consultations. You can find her work at  meganmerchant.wix.com/poet. ​
“since the thing perhaps is to eat flowers and not to be afraid”—E.E. Cummings                
“Walking through darkness with thoughts full of colors".—Prajakta Mhadnak