No More Words

By Lauri Apple in Arts & Entertainment on Apr 17, 2009 6:20PM

Visit downtown on any given weekend, and you're likely to encounter someone who's handing out free stuff -- from breakfast bars to coupons to tiny booklets filled with "salvation." This Sunday, visit downtown to receive a free word from poet Jennifer Karmin, who will spend the afternoon in front of the U.S. Army Career Center performing "4000 Words, 4000 Dead," in which she passes words out to passersby. Karmin collects the words to represent each American who dies in Iraq; together, the words create a public poem.

Karmin's performance is being sponsored by The Poetry Bomb, which encourages random acts of poetry. If you can't make it downtown, she'll take your submissions online as long as the Iraq War continues and the number of dead grows. Send 1-10 words (with "4000 WORDS" in the subject line) to jkarmin at yahoo.com.

Sunday, April 19 at 3:30 p.m. Harrison and State. Photo by Luis Soto.