Category: Expo Presents

A Decade of Art: Digital Gallery & Celebration Recap

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This past year, as Exposition Review celebrated its tenth anniversary, we looked for ways to honor the artists and comics creators who had shaped the journal over its first decade. One of those ideas began as an intern project and grew into something much bigger: Expo Presents: “A Decade of Art,” a digital exhibition and online collection celebrating the visual art and comics published in Expo’s first ten years.

The project was the brainchild of our Expo Intern, Luz Aguirre, who developed the concept with guidance from Intern Director and Comics Editor Lauren Gorski, Visual Art Editor Brianna J.L. Smyk, and Managing Editor Annlee Ellingson.

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Exposition Review, Vol. X: “Spring” Launch

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As we head into autumn, we’re fondly looking back on the summer launch of our “Spring” issue!

Exposition Review Vol. X raises hope. For relief from grief. In the resilience of both nature and urban communities. With the sight of a Nike sneaker floating in on the Pacific tide. The stories and art and experiments on these pages dig deep into the human experience, and as you delve into them too, you’ll find hope blooms on the other side.

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Exposition Review, Vol. IX: “POP!” Launch

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Exposition Review is thrilled to share our latest issue, Vol. IX: “POP!”!

“POP!” is the intersection of tradition and trend. Whether satirizing an overused metaphor in poetry or confronting violence in Gaza, these pieces are made relevant both by their immediacy and because they are rooted in the human experience. It is full of moments that will surprise you, inspire you to think outside of your bubble, or maybe even reference some of your favorite songs.

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Exposition Review, Vol. VIII: “Lines” Launch

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Exposition Review is thrilled to share our latest issue, Vol. VIII: “Lines”!

This edition explores connection. Between parents and children, artists and fans, friends and lovers, robots and humans. To one’s city and across borders. Via humor and through grief. The lines within this issue are both physical and metaphorical, and throughout—like on our cover specially designed by Kwasi Boyd-Bouldin—illustrate the moments when art intersects reality, when we scrawl over the way the world appears and redesign what is into what could be.

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AWP Panel Recap: Meant to Last: Maintaining Longevity as an Independent Lit Journal

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It was Thursday morning, the first full day of #AWP2023 in Seattle, and the conference was already buzzing with the hunt for coffee, frantic connections to the Wi-Fi, and the excitement of tote bags at check-in. Expo’s panel, “Meant to Last: Maintaining Longevity as an Independent Lit Journal,” was a part of the first block of panels bright and early at 9 a.m. This would be our second time with a featured panel at AWP, our first taking place in San Antonio back in 2020 (find that recap here).

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Exposition Review, Vol VII: “Flux” Launch

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Lorna Simpson, “Ice 13,” 2018. Ink and screenprint on gessoed fiberglass, 108 x 96 x 1 3/8 inches. © Lorna Simpson. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: James Wang

Exposition Review is thrilled to share our latest issue, Vol. VII: “Flux”! This edition captures moments of change—gradual and sudden, subtle and profound, intensely personal and immensely public. Yet time still flows, carrying readers with it through the stages of life, through relationships, through grief, and through art.

The poetry, prose, scripts, and images within these pages play off these themes and each other, speaking to us individually but also talking to each other. As you explore this issue, you’ll find those reverberations within sections, echoes across genres, and perhaps, as we did, resonances in your own life.

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Expo Presents: Transposition, The Literary Podcast—Season Two

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If season one of our Transposition podcast was about sharing the voices of our contributors at a time when so many venues were silenced, season two was about inviting others in. We added Mitchell Evenson as an associate producer, and he created our new theme music and helped shape the season. We brought on more guests to expand and deepen the context of our content. We interviewed our first visual artist on the podcast, Zoe Walsh. With all of these new additions, we found a common theme.

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Expo, Erased: Read New Versions of Our Letters from the Editors

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Currently in the throes of putting together our seventh annual issue, “Flux,” we can’t help but look back at all that’s come before. We’ve been able to do so with fresh eyes over the past few months thanks to the creativity and industry of our intern Rayne Alarcio, who’s produced a series of erasure poems based on our past letters from the editors. This project, which we’ll be rolling out across our social media channels leading up to the launch of “Flux,” got to the heart of our ambitions and aspirations for Expo in a vibrant new form.

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