September 3-30.  NI UNA MAS.

Ni Una Mas, Not One More! is the slogan used by activists to protest the mass slaughter of women in Juarez.  But it is not just women who are being killed.  As Charles Bowden, author of Murder City: Ciudad Juárez and the Global Economy’s New Killing Fields says, Juarez kills everyone.  And the situation in Juarez is itself just the exemplar of a wider social phenomenon in which individuals (the|’Sones) are isolated and pitted against the many of the collective (themOthers).  In so far as we deny our being a part of a collective we all contribute to the denegration and disenfranchisement of the many, especially the many of the poor.  This project pays homage to themOthers, naming some, and asking our government to intervene on their, and ultimately our behalf.

Writer’s Statement: Language is not just a medium of poetry.  It is also, as a tongue, one of the organs through which we process data and make sense of the world.  Are the puns that abound in language simply funny slips of the tongue, or are they indices of something more important?