CHP In the Stacks

In the Stacks with Kathryn Savage: On Land

In the Stacks with Kathryn Savage: On Land

  In the Volcano House movie theater, red lights pulsed beneath chairs. On screen, I watched ash and pumice slowly bury homes in the Westman...

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In the Stacks with Kathryn Savage: Roni Horn's Library of Water

In the Stacks with Kathryn Savage: Roni Horn's Library of Water

Roni Horn has written poems and elegies to pools, to meltwater. Vatnasafn, the Library of Water, Horn’s twelve-year site-specific project, archives glacial meltwater in floor-to-ceiling...

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In the Stacks with Kathryn Savage: Qualities of Water

In the Stacks with Kathryn Savage: Qualities of Water

The Blue Lagoon was trashed the day a fellow artist went swimming. Floating solo cups. Drunk couples making out in milky blue water, taking selfies....

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In the Stacks with Kathryn Savage: Shape-Shifting

In the Stacks with Kathryn Savage: Shape-Shifting

  I was in Iceland less than a day when I was told by an Icelander that if I went for a hike alone in...

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In the Stacks with Kathryn Savage

In the Stacks with Kathryn Savage

  My father installed hot tubs and repaired swimming pools. We lived, briefly, in The Hopkins House Motor Hotel. I was six the year he...

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Introducing Our Next In the Stacks Residency: Kathryn Savage

Introducing Our Next In the Stacks Residency: Kathryn Savage

During July and August, Minneapolis-based hybrid writer Kathryn Savage will take part in a month-long residency at the Gullkistan, Center for Creativity in Laugarvatn, Iceland. ...

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