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Stephanie Barber has been posting haiku to Facebook every day since 2010. At once quotidian and monumental, Status Update Volume I catalogs that first year. Each haiku is paired with an illustration by Lauren Bender, which are not illustrations at all, but rather descriptions of drawings she would do if she were to illustrate each haiku. Extracted from the jumble of news articles, events, and comments, the poems are made available to the public for the first time. As the cultural role of Facebook ebbs and flows, Barber persistently responds to the platform’s incessant query, “What’s on your mind?”
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