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		Elevator Grid Project: Amy's abacus
		For this project, we were all given a grid and told to fill it in. We didn't know what it would be used for, we just had 36 little squares to fill in. After Amy got ahold of them, she (with some help from Mike Kelleher and Jonathan Stalling, I think) made 50 of these beautiful abacuses. Each abacus was made of a wood frame, wood cube beads, copper wire (to hold the beads in the frame), and stickers (our printed grid-poems, cut and applied to the cubes). Each abacus combines 4 poets' grid poems. Yes, it really is as cool as it looks--you can spin the cubes around and read lots of different poems.

		Contributor's book
		This anthology reproduces everyone's original grid-poems, before Amy made them interesting. The book was made by Kyle Schlesinger's Cuneiform Press. The green sticker is not part of the original design.

		Contributor's book, page 1
		This is what it looks like when you open the contributor's book.

		My contribution
		Part of the grid I made for the Project.

		Reading + Release
		The abacuses (abacii?) were hung up in the Hibiscus Room at Just Buffalo (Tri-Main Ctr) and people attempted to read the poems aloud.