Kelly Krumrie - "No Measure" - Jose-Luis Moctezuma

Thursday, November 7, 2024 - 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Event Presenter/Author: 
Kelly Krumrie

Kelly Krumrie will discuss No Measure. She will be joined in conversation by Jose-Luis Moctezuma. A Q&A and signing will follow the discussion.

At the Co-op

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About the Book: In No Measure, two entangled scientists attempt to measure, record, and modify a desert on all scales, from a wide valley to a grain of sand. The speaker works with and for another researcher who watches over her from a control room as the speaker tends a desert remediation project. The desert setting is inspired by past and present industrial and ecological disasters as a result of climate change, technological production, and desertification. 

The scientific task of measurement and documentation on such a scale, and in such a changing landscape, is impossible, and this is layered with the desire to know and be with another through the same lens, with the same language. The repetition required of scientific processes is not unlike romantic obsession. Here, performative acts of measurement create a scientific erotics, an installation the reader moves through, an atmosphere susceptible to weather.

About the Author: Kelly Krumrie is the author of No Measure (Calamari Archive, 2024) and Math Class (Calamari Archive, 2022). Her creative and critical writing appears in the journals 3:AMLa VagueBlack Warrior ReviewFull Stop, and The Journal of Modern Literature, among others. From 2020-22, she wrote figuring, a column on math and science in art and literature, for Tarpaulin Sky Magazine. She holds a PhD in English & Literary Arts from the University of Denver and teaches at the University of Colorado at Boulder and the University of Denver.

About the Interlocutor: Jose-Luis Moctezuma is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Writing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). His poetry and criticism have been published in Postmodern Culture, Peripheries, Modernism/modernity, Fence, Jacket2, Chicago Review, and elsewhere. He is the author of Place-Discipline, which was the winner of the 2017 Omnidawn 1st/2nd Poetry Book Prize, and Black Box Syndrome

Event Location: 
Seminary Co-op Bookstore
5751 S Woodlawn Ave
Chicago, IL 60637