Jon Cotner
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Read (and listen to) Long Meadow!
Artist/Poet Jon Cotner has a poem, “Long Meadow,” over at The American Reader. Not only can you read this amazing poem but it has audio! I still have yet to adjust to North American life I can’t say exactly when…
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Joke or Treat
Artist Jon Cotner celebrated Halloween by collecting jokes from his neighbors in Brooklyn. Check out his slideshow at The Hairpin.
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Spontaneous Society
Spontaneous Society is a recurring interactive walk lead by Jon Cotner, involving five participants and a “catalog of one-line utterances” that replace “urban anonymity with affection.” You can listen to an audio improvisation of one such walk and see photographs…
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Poem Forest
“Urban planners, artists, and citizens around the world must open poetic space within increasingly cramped, increasingly bottom-line-driven cities. Our political animalness gets claustrophobic. We require the commons to encounter each other and the physical landscape.” Poem Forest involved participants reciting…
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Let’s Take a Walk Together
James Yeh writes on the Spontaneous Society for Faster Times, Jon Cotner’s ambulatory, real-life interaction/art installation, inciting strangers to interact positively with one another. The project was created in hopes of reigniting a certain kind of social spontaneity that is…
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A MODERN READER #2: And That’s It, More or Less
When I was in college, I had a crush on Ugly Duckling Presse the way 17 year-olds in 1958 had a crush on Jack Kerouac.