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Maggs Vibo is the penname for Margaret Ann Viboolsittiseri. Vibo is an artist, war veteran, scholar, and visual poet. Read her biography for more of her story.
2021 Calendar
SEPTEMBER 20th: 2 poems by Viboolsittiseri released by Berfrois. See "Agents of War" a commentary on the parallels of the Vietnam conflict and "A Lifetime of War in 250 Words" a visual poem based off Vibo's poetry film which debuted at the Edinburgh Fringe Fest. Both continuing the artist's ash poetry and color series.
9/11 TO VETERANS DAY: 'The Price of Freedom' curated by Uniting US and hosted by Women in Military Service for America Memorial, Washington, DC. To learn more, please see: VIDEO. *viewer discretion is advised.
ONGOING EXHIBITION: Vibo's art is in an ongoing Uniting US art exhibition within Metropolitan Washington International. To learn more, please see: Press Release.
SEPTEMBER: "Pink" released 17 September 2021.
ONGOING EXHIBITION: Vibo's art is in an ongoing Uniting US art exhibition within The Hill Center at the Old Naval Hospital. To learn more, please see: Press Release.
OCTOBER POETRY READING (2021 October 15 at 7PM EST) Forthcoming Launch of "Eden" by Robert Frede Kenter celebrated with an intimate gathering of friends and Poetry Readings! Hosted by EIC Sam Strathman EIC of Floodlight Editions.
"Robert Frede Kenter is a writer, editor & visual artist, founder & editor-in-chief of Ice Floe Press. Poems, theatre work, essays, art, hybrids, collaborations and prose works have been published widely including, most recently: Burning House Press, Anti Heroin Chic, Cough, Twist in Time, Visual Verse, Anthropocene, and others. Tweets @frede_kenter."
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OCTOBER POETRY READING (2021 October 23 at 2PM EST) Forthcoming Launch of new poetry book by Dan Power the EIC of Trickhouse Press and celebrated with Poetry Readings with Maggs Vibo, hosted by EIC James Knight (The Bird King) the EIC of Steel Incisors. Lineup of all the Readers coming soon!
"Dan Power, a Lancaster-based creative who takes inspiration from the gaps he longs to fill in the publishing industry. Trickhouse was founded during the UK’s lockdown in July of last year [2020]. Power notes that the press’ goals are “...to offer high-quality books at low costs, to treat each book as an object in itself, and to try and upset the stodgy UK poetry establishment by dropping books which are risky, playful, inventive, and willfully going against tradition and convention"
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OCTOBER POETRY READING AND EXHIBITION LAUNCH: (2021 OCTOBER 27 at 3:00 PM): You're invited to an Artist Panel 'Celebrating the Spectrum of the Healing Arts Series' with artist Margaret Viboolsittiseri. Listen as Vibo and fellow artists answer questions about their craft and discuss a special Healing Arts exhibition curated by Uniting US (showing through to Veterans Day) and hosted by the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. Because of Covid-19, this special exhibition was postponed during the height of the pandemic and pushed to 2021. Details about the exhibition provided: WRNMMC The Art of Healing.
OCTOBER INITIATIVE: Viboolsittiseri entered into the World Food Day Poetry Competition. As part of the Hunger X Initiative, 10 seedlings were planted in honor of Vibo's poetry contribution.
OCTOBER FESTIVAL: Arts Festival. More details to follow.
NOVEMBER EXHIBITION: Exciting new visual poetry forthcoming at The Galleries at Takoma Park: Art Exhibition Page. To see more: TAKOMA PARK ARTS.
AUTUMN: Vibo's forthcoming visual poems included in print magazine from France in a forthcoming Paris Lit Up printed journal: PLU 9 available for purchase at store shop. See the first edition at Barnes and Noble bookstores. See the Submissions: VIDEO.
AUTUMN: Amanda Earl (2021) Vibo's 10 Experimental Poems forthcoming in Experiment-O, Issue 14, AngelHousePress.
AUTUMN: (2021–2022) Check out "Celebrate" an art contribution by Margaret Viboolsittiseri for #QueerYourPrideQuilt with BreakthroughUS.
2022 Calendar
2022: (September 15) Vibo's invited to participate in a spoken word poetry project with EIC Mark Antony Owen scheduled for early autumn 2022. Details announced Summer 2022.
2022: (Projected date TBD) Vibo's potential collaboration with author Randy Brown of Red Bull Rising ".. a military-focused blog written and edited by Randy Brown—aka 'Charlie Sherpa'." If you haven't checked out the blog, please do so immediately!