Ana María Caballero invited fifty different people to read and annotate the same poem, performing their experience of its verse via hand-written marginalia.

Fifty Ways of Looking at a Poem celebrates the ways in which writers and readers construct each other. Readers give literature life within their minds, honoring words when they make them their own by leaving a mark.

The combined, iterative interventions in this series represent the collective evolution of readership.

Language is universal—yet personal—and every reading pulls and pushes it forth.

The top ten bidders will receive a print of the poem, signed by Caballero, so that they may annotate it themselves and become contributors to this project.