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Classifieds
Classifieds reflects on a broader socio-economic phenomenon known as the Prison Industrial Complex, as well as re-entry issues of previously incarcerated people. Influenced by her work as a therapist with previously incarcerated men and women, Amit devised the idea of using classified ads as a way to include the text of the poem in the “daily conversation” of the Chicago paper, The Reader, foregrounding a range of services and imagining a reader coming upon a poem as a service, a poem as part of the everyday fabric of our lives. This is imagined in parallel to the sense of re-entry: person as displaced/poem as displaced. In this piece Granite Amit collaborated with the poet Jan Beatty.