ATHICA - VOX - Open Lines - "I'm Asking You to Take (a) Part" by Michael Tod Edgerton pt. 1/2

I'm Asking You to Take (a) Part--a new work-in-progress created specifically for this event by poet Michael Tod Edgerton--will be read aloud by others, in keeping with the participatory theme. Mr. Edgerton (who sadly is unable to present his work at this VOX reading) will talk about and read the creative work he's producing with these responses during Taking Part's closing events on Sunday March 6.
If you would like to submit, please do so by March 1! (see below)

To create the I'm Asking You to Take (a) Part piece Edgerton designed a questionnaire distributed online and in the ATHICA gallery since the Taking Part exhibit's opening. He incorporates a wide variety of responses which form the work's material, answers to very personal questions such as:
"What dream do you remember most vividly? What message do you think it bears?"
"Describe a person you love. How would you know them without their face?"
and
"In what way have you betrayed or disappointed yourself or others? In what way have you been betrayed or disappointed?"

Edgerton is accepting submissions for his presentation of the project through March 1 for his March 6 presentation, and beyond for subsequent readings (see below for how to submit and the survey questions themselves).

Edgerton cites inspiration in historical precedents; "recent investigative/participatory poetry projects as Kate Schapira's Town,* C. D. Wright's One Big Self and One with Others, and Bhanu Kapil Rider's The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers, from which I unabashedly stole the idea of this questionnaire." We are very excited to have Edgerton's creative energies return to ATHICA, despite the fact that he will not be able to present personally until Closing Day, Sunday March 6.
*this link is to an interview of her by Kenyon Review's frequent blogger on collaborative writers, William Walsh.

VOX is affiliated with the University of Georgia's Creative Writing Dept. The VOX Reading Series brings both emerging and established writers to Athens, as well as provides a stage for graduate students in the UGA Creative Writing Program.

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