Please join us on Saturday October 19th for the 13th installment of Ann Stephenson’s Readings at Parkside Series…
NAIVE POEMS Volumes I and II are sourced from school district anthologies, student-edited chapbooks, and small printed efforts by teachers bringing together their students’ work — all from a geographically diverse sampling of American children and teens from the early 1960s to the late 1980s. These original mimeographed or offset chapbooks and journals highlight a classroom or school’s work at a particular moment in time. Intended to be handed out to family and friends or simply archived in the school library, these publications were rarely circulated beyond the zip code they were created in. Kye Potter & Michael Klausman have selected and edited the volumes in the spirit of a mixtape, fortunately sharing these exquisite works with a wider audience.