Line tamer.
Harlo and I have been busy this month making improvements to the site. Even though we still have some content to add, some kinks to workout, and are in the process of migrating my blog over, we decided to push many of the new pages live today for your enjoyment. What’s new: 1. Drop down Read More …
My site is about to go through a major re-design this week. Stay tuned for an announcement revealing the new matthewhittinger.com!
I had a lovely time chatting with Joe Milford Saturday night about my work. He’s a sensitive and careful close-reader and the 90 minutes flew by; I felt like we could have talked for another 90 minutes and still not covered all there is to cover. If you missed the show, it is now archived Read More …
I have a long poem sequence, “Merry-Go-Tats: A Bestiary, A Fable” in the new Dusie, the mega Issue #8 (vol. 2 no. 4) (Click on “download ebook” to the right; the sequence begins on page 59). UPDATE: You can read Dusie 8 on their site now. Click HERE. The sequence is the middle section in Read More …
Just a reminder: I’ll be on The Joe Milford Poetry Show this coming Saturday, August 1st. Please note the new time: 7:00-8:30 PM (EST). The show is broadcast on the web, so you can listen live from anywhere in the world, and if you miss it, you can find it in the archives.
Here’s a scan of the print I made at the Center for Book Arts letterpress class: Enjoy!
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …