A Layman’s View — David Harrison Horton

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*performed telematically from Beijing to Chicago for “A Century after the 1913 Armory Show: Panel Discussion” during the 2013 Axis International Art Festival (May 5, 2013). The source text is a review that Theodore Roosevelt wrote of the Armory Show in 1913.


David Harrison Horton is a Beijing-based writer, artist, editor and curator. He is author of Maze Poems (Arteidolia) and his latest chap, Model Answers, is out now from CCCP Chapbooks/subpress. His work has recently appeared in The Belfast Review, Roi Fainéant and Yolk, among others. He edits the poetry zine SAGINAW. davidharrisonhorton.com