destroyed books = $$$ for New Orleans Public Libraries

Part of my stint in Chicago included being a part of the Rebuilt Books project, where authors & publishers destroyed and rebuilt a copy of their own book, then donated them to an auction benefiting the New Orleans Public Libraries. Most of the libraries were destroyed by the hurricane, but the rebuilding campaign aims to not only replace them but use the opportunity to improve them to one of the leading library districts nationwide. I drowned a copy of my poetry chapbook, SAFARI, in the bathtub.
The event raised $4,000.