Summary: (http://www.litshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/index_jaffe_7451.png) On this Lit Show, Russell Jaffe discusses his new book, participatory poetry, small presses, the 2013 Mission Creek Festival, and building a community around art. Jaffe is an artist, poet, teacher, event organizer, and all-around participator. His debut collection, This Super Doom I Aver(http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=thlish065-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1937202062), is a collection of self-described “Mad Libs poems” that are designed to be co-written by and with their reader. Despite Jaffe’s claims that “our new history is avant-doom,” CA Conrad calls the book “anything but a place where we are doomed. It's house of Magic!!” Jaffe is also the founder and editor of Strange Cage (http://strangecage.org/), the small press and long-running poetry series that returns to Iowa City on April 15. His poems appear all over the Internet and are forthcoming in [PANK] and H_NGM_N. He has exhibited found sculptures made from discarded video game systems. He teaches poetry workshops in and around Iowa City. He holds an MFA from Columbia College Chicago. He loves professional wrestling in what appears to be a sincere way. His work is riotously fun, doggedly unpretentious, and [________]. Interview by Ben Mauk. Excerpt Complete Show
