On April 5th, 2008, the text''sound'' editorial collective organized a celebration in Ypsilanti, Michigan for the journal's launch featuring [[Barrett Watten]], Joel Levise, [[Christine Hume]], James Marks, and Viki.
In the fall of 2008, the text''sound'' collective teamed-up with Megan Levad to curate the Work-In-Progress Reading Series at the Crazy Wisdom Bookstore in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Performers included Vivee Francis, Jill Darling, Onna Solomon, Sandy Tolbert, [[Aaron McCollough]], Adam Boehmer, Michael Shilling, David Karczynski, T Hetzel, Katie Hartsock, Meghann Rotary, Anna Prushnikaya, and Stephanie Rowden.
== External Links ==
*[http://www.textsound.org textsound's website]
*[http://aaronmccollough.com/blog/?p=62 Self-Consuming Artifacts … towards an unquiet metaphysics] A blog posting by American poet Aaron McCollough on Barrett Watten & textsound, initiated by the [[2008]] crisis in "Tibet" (& "Tibet" being the title of a Watten poem)
*[http://wipreadingseries.blogspot.com/search?updated-min=2008-01-01T00%3A00%3A00-05%3A00&updated-max=2009-01-01T00%3A00%3A00-05%3A00&max-results=2 2008 Work-In-Progress Reading Series Blog]
