High Energy Constructs, presents Many Happy Returns — a large-scale group exhibition that centers around the intersections of poetry/literature/language and the visual/media arts.

Featuring works by: Marc Bell, Jen Bervin, Ed Bowes, Joe Brainard, Jeff Karl Butler, Sabrina Calle, Andrew Choate, Marcus Civin, Zoe Crosher, kari edwards, Thomas Evans, Derek Fenner, Coryander Friend, Ryan Gallagher, Granary Books, Jack Greene, Doug Harvey, Fran Herndon, John Higham, August Highland, Jen Hofer, Tanya Hollis, Jane Dalrymple-Hollo, Colter Jacobsen, Lisa Jarnot, Juliacks, Mary Kite, Joanne Kyger, David Larsen, Donal Mosher, Kevin Opstedal, Amy Robinson, Christopher Russell, George Schneeman, David E. Stone, Deborah Stratman, Mathew Timmons, Cat Tyc, Ugly Duckling Presse, Anne Waldman, Will Yackulic, John Yau, and others…

Evoking the field(s) of verbal and visual interplay in art since the 1960s, Many Happy Returns offers a vibrant look at collaborative relations, radical creations, and hermetic disciplines that have proven to reflect and affect social, political, and artistic currents via traditional and counter-traditional expressions – in continuation with the likes of William Blake, Walt Whitman, Dada, Fluxus, the Beat and New York School Generations.

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With special thanks to Dodie Bellamy and Kevin Killian, Mary and Dave Kite, Anne Waldman, Lisa Birman, Gregory Lind Gallery, Matvei Yankelevich and Ugly Duckling Presse, Steve Clay and Granary Books, Micah Ballard and Lew Gallery, Blue Press Books, Lost Angel Press, and Bootstrap Productions.

 (exhibition view)