Frost Pear Print
Here’s a scan of the print I made at the Center for Book Arts letterpress class: Enjoy!
Author: Matthew
Line tamer.
Center for Book Arts Letterpress Seminar Day 4
Our last day! It was primarily about distribution, the act of putting your type back into the case. It’s supposed to be this satisfying, closure-inducing task but I found it sad having spent two days putting something together and then having to destroy it. Here’s a pic of what it looked like on its galley Read More …
Center for Book Arts Letterpress Seminar Day 3
No speakers today or new notes, just work work work! Finished setting the text of my poem and transferred it to a galley where I started the process of adding leading to blank lines of quads for the stanza breaks between my lines. I did my name in the same Optima font as the text Read More …
Center for Book Arts Letterpress Seminar Day 2
Day two, but first a story from day one: in the 19th century towns held typesetting races where swifts from local newspapers and print shops would compete to claim victory as the fastest and then move on to bigger and bigger towns to challenge other swifts. Some became pretty famous nationally. The last race was Read More …
Center for Book Arts Letterpress Seminar Day 1
I had my first class today in the Letterpress Printing & Fine Press Publishing Seminar for Emerging Writers at the Center for Book Arts. So much fun! Sarah Nicholls gave a nice introduction to the center and passed around some of the chapbooks from the award series and the broadsides from the reading series. I Read More …
When your poetry finds an audience abroad.
One of the things I appreciate about having web presence as a poet is being able to connect with other artists and writers outside the U.S. Two recent stories of connecting with people you should check out: 1. The photographer Ellen O’Connell (originally from San Francisco but living in Zurich, Switzerland) contacted me via my Read More …
Insightful Analysis from Pansy Poetics
I found this lovely commentary on my poem “Two Men On a Bed” over at Steve Fellner’s blog Pansy Poetics. It’s a thoughtful close-read, and it’s refreshing to have someone identify the source inspiration (A. R. Ammons, who I was reading heavily at the time I wrote this poem). Alice Fulton is a huge influence Read More …
Three poems in Issue 3 of Ouroboros Review
“Aunt Eloe Schools the Scarecrow,” “Substitutions” and “Two Men on a Bed” are all up in Issue 3 of Ouroboros Review. Check it out HERE. Here’s a preview: Open publication “Aunt Eloe Schools the Scarecrow” and “Substitutions” are from my Skin Shift manuscript and continue my exploration of metamorphosis and transformation in all its many Read More …
Project Verse, Week Three Results
Between send-off parties and birthday parties, trips to the park and the Bronx Zoo this weekend, I had the pleasure of reading and commenting on week three’s Project Verse entries as the guest judge. Now that all the judges’ comments are in you can see the results of the top two and bottom two, who Read More …
Guest Judge for Project Verse, Week Three
I’m the guest judge this week for Project Verse! In week three the remaining contestants have a simile vs. metaphor assignment to complete: two metaphors in a poem of 60 lines or less. Let’s see how they do! Their poems are due Friday morning by 10 and I’ll be reading them this weekend. Comments from Read More …