do you read me?: Kaie Kellough, the Words and Music Show, and a Self-Curated Series Within a Series

CURATORIAL relationality and self-curation The literary event (poetry reading and reading series) as form-and the sociocultural context that allows the idea of the literary event to function-initiates relevant dialogue with discourses from the visual arts when curatorial theory and vocabulary from museum, gallery, and exhibition spaces are applied to it. The sociability inherent to the relational points to human exchanges during the duration of a work of art or the performance of a literary event. While it is artificial to unravel and dissect different possible relationalities as separate entities, I do highlight dialogic and durational moments of relational influence and affect in this essay due to the temporal entanglement of the case study's poetic content. To delve into this archival recurrence of versioned works, I will use the network that exists between Kellough's first recorded performances in 2003 and 2005 as a case study, both featuring a poem entitled "do you read me?" While this work later appears as a handwritten scan called "Word Sound System 1, Part A and Part B" in Kellough's 2010 poetry collection Maple Leaf Rag (figure 1), even this print version relies on its status as score and its potential embodiment as differential audiotextual versions, rather than as a stable, or at least legible, typeset product.