In Christopher Weber’s essay “The Great Absence,” this week’s feature in Fringe, he reflects on the now-demolished South Side Chicago projects known as the ABLA homes—and the urban farm that’s being built in their place. We’ve just added some images to the piece: photographs of interns working at the urban farm Growing Power is building on the site of the former towers, and two paintings by Pedro Basantes of the Cabrini-Green projects as they were being demolished. The paintings are part of a longer series; the first (Cabrini-Green #2) has the feel of an old color postcard. Check them out, and let us know your thoughts about the essay in this space.
Poetry Editor
Anna Lena Phillips received an MFA in creative writing from Emerson College in 2006 and moved back south as soon as she could thereafter. Her writing appears in BlazeVOX, Open Letters Monthly, the Anthology of Appalachian Writers, and others. She is the recipient of the Southern Women Writers Conference’s 2012 Emerging Writers Award in poetry, a 2012 Nazim Hikmet Poetry Contest award, a 2011 Emerging Artist grant from the Durham County Arts Council, and 2008 and 2009 Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg prizes. She has been awarded residencies at Penland School of Crafts and the Weymouth Center for the Arts and Humanities.
Her projects and pursuits, which include letterpress printing, oldtime Appalachian music and dance, and investigations of the Piedmont landscape, are catalogued at todointhenewyear.net. One such project, a letterpress-printed, pocket-sized guide to poetic forms, is slated for release in 2013. Anna Lena is a founding editor of Fringe.
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