I wonder if there are people out there who read creatively? If we can agree that reading is an active act, that it is something more than a passive activity, then a reader can choose to read creatively, as an artist. The art of reading. Similar to how, say, a performer in an orchestra is also an artist. Or how a jazz musician might interpret a song, using improvisation. The difference with reading as art might be, however, that there will always be an audience of one.
Chris Fischbach, publisher at Coffee House Press and the creator of Reading Room MPLS, shares some questions that he hopes people will ask themselves (and others) when encountering his project. Reading Room MPLS is one of 8 artist projects created as part of the Field Office Fellowship, a program that Colin and I are coordinating with the Walker Art Center this summer. When Reading Room MPLS is through, Chris will return to Field Office to share his thoughts on what it was like to design and create it, and what it means for his own work as a poet and publisher.
Now, what books should we read…?
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