Please join us for the presentation of the 7th edition of * as a Journal, with guest editor Jean-Max Colard, artist Christine Herzer, and * as a Journal head editor Kotryna Lingienė. This issue is as a kind of inquiry into the place that poetry occupies today in contemporary creation, and more broadly in our lives.

Struck by the presence of poetry, particularly among the younger generation, on social networks, and especially in the art world, Jean-Max Colard, with his collaborator Louise Brunner, played with the title of the magazine to compare the poem form with other fields: poem as a journal, as a movie, as an exhibition, as sex, as itself, but not as war.

* as a Journal is published by the Lithuanian Culture Institute.

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Editorial - Jean-Max Colard

JOURNAL AS A POEM

Journal of a Xenopoet - Babi Badalov

POEM AS A DIARY

december- Simon Johanin

alive: writing, time, world - Christine Herzer

POEM AS A POEM

Dog ears - Erica Baum

notes on poetry - Cia Rinne

FEBERDIKT - Ida Ekdblad

POEM AS?

What is Poetry for You Today? - Jean D’Amérique, Pedro Barateiro, Anton Bialas, Belinda Cannone, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Chris Cyrille-Isaac, Liliane Giraudon, Thomas Hirschhorn, Simon Johannin, Nikita Kadan, Ian Kiaer, Kamilya Kuspanova, Quinn Latimer, Raimundas Malašauskas, Elena Narbutaitė, Makenzy Orcel, Rachel Rose, John Jefferson Selve, Noah Truong, Oscar Tuazon.

EXHIBITION AS A POEM

Fragments: poems - Ian Kiaer

We are not here to make do with what exists. (Adventures of an exhibition) - Christian Bernard

Facts and Words - Elena Narbutaitė

SEX AS A POEM

On Tracey Emin: ‘Everything Has Come Through Me’ - Louise Brunner

I ♥ Jack Pierson

FILM AS A POEM

Metres - Enrico Camporesi

Jonas Mekas as a Poet - Pip Chodorov

EARTH AS A POEM

A Constellation of Blackness - Josèfa Ntjam

The Poet II - Quinn Latimer

Does of the Granddaughter: I wish Two Kidneys Upon Thee - Vaiva Grainytė

WAR NOT AS A POEM

The War - Jean-Michel Espitallier

On Maxym Kryvtsov, a Poet at War - Bogdana Romantsova