Special America (Claire Donato and Jeff T. Johnson)

Special America (Claire Donato & Jeff T. Johnson) is an upstart, outreach, non-partisan organization located at the intersection of poetry, politics, patriotism, digital history and fate. An exercise in and an exorcism of American Exceptionalism, based on the spirit of intellectual play—semiotic, humorous, and performative—Special America incubated in the electronic literature community, spread to the New York City Poetry Industrial Complex, and onto the silver screen.