JAB at COLUMBIA COLLEGE CENTER FOR BOOK AND PAPER

Brad Freeman invited Craig Dworkin and I to guest edit a special issue of JAB on the relationship between experimental literature and artists' books. We had a ball working together through the spring and summer, and can't wait for the issue to hit the streets. More on that soon. . . . For now, if you're in Chicago, please consider attending two terrific readings curated by David Pavelich and Patrick Durgin in conjunction with an exhibition of artists' books, featuring Kerouac's On the Road manuscript. 

JACK KEROUAC'S MANUSCRIPT SCROLL

and

THE INTERSECTIONS OF EXPERIMENTAL POETRY AND ARTISTS' BOOKS

October 3 - November 30, 2008

OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, October 3, 5:30 – 7:30PM

GALLERY HOURS: M – F 12 – 7; SA + SU 12 – 5

To celebrate the opening of the exhibit and special issue of the Journal of Artists’ Books on “Intersections of Experimental Literature and Artists’ Books,” readings by poets based in the greater Chicago area and whose works exemplify contemporary experimental poetic practice in the tradition fostered by the small press and artists’ books.

Friday, October 3rd, 2008, 6:30 pm

Ed Roberson
Nathalie Stephens
Kerri Sonnenberg
Garin Cycholl

Ed Roberson is the author of a number of books, including City Eclogue (2006) and the National Poetry Series winner Atmosphere Conditions (1998). Born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA, Roberson has recently taught writing at Columbia College and the University of Chicago. Nathalie Stephens (Nathanaël) writes l’entre-genre in English and French. She is the author of more than a dozen books including The Sorrow And The Fast Of It (Nightboat, 2007), Paper City (Coach House, 2003), Je Nathanaël (l’Hexagone, 2003) and L’Injure (l’Hexagone, 2004). Immminent with Nightboat (2009) is an essay of correspondence entitled Absence Where As (Claude Cahun and the Unopened Book). In addition to translating herself, Stephens ha translated Catherine Mavrikakis, Gail Scott, Bhanu Kapil and Édouard Glissant. Kerri Sonnenberg lives and writes in Chicago. She is the author of The Mudra, published by Litmus Press. Garin Cycholl’s recent work has appeared with the Seneca Review, Exquisite Corpse, Free Verse, and PFS Post Avant, and is author of Blue Mound to 161, Nightbirds, and Rafetown Georgics. He teaches writing and literature at the University of Illinois at Chicago and is a visiting lecturer with the Committee on Creative Writing at the University of Chicago.

Friday, October 17th, 2008, 6:30 pm

Judith Goldman
Roberto Harrison
Simone Muench
Tim Yu

Judith Goldman is the author Deathstar/Ricochet (2006) and Vocoder (2001). With Leslie Scalapino, she edits the series of anthologies War and Peace. She teaches at the University of Chicago. Roberto Harrison’s most recent books include Os (subpress, 2006), Counter Daemons (Litmus, 2006) and Elemental Song (Answer Tag Home Press, 2006). He edits Crayon with Andrew Levy and the Bronze Skull Press chapbook series. He lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he hosts the Enemy Rumor reading series. Simone Muench’s last book Lampblack & Ash (2005) received the Kathryn A. Morton Prize for Poetry. She is an editor for Sharkforum, serves on the advisory board for Switchback Books, and was recently named one of New City’s “Lit 50: Who Really Books in Chicago.” Tim Yu is the author of Journey to the West, which won the 2006 Vincent Chin Memorial Chapbook Prize from Kundiman and appeared in Barrow Street. An assistant professor of English at the University of Toronto, his critical book, Race and the Avant-Garde: Experimental and Asian American Poetry since 1965, is forthcoming from Stanford University Press in 2009.


The special issue of the Journal of Artists’ Books on “Intersections of Experimental Literature and Artists’ Books” is guest-edited by Craig Dworkin and Kyle Schlesinger. The poetry readings are co-curated by Patrick Durgin and David Pavelich. 

Dworkin is the editor of Eclipse and the author of Parse (Atelos, 2008), Reading the Illegible (Northwestern University Press, 2003), and other books. Schlesinger is the author of The Pink (Kenning Editions, 2008), Hello Helicopter (Bazevox, 2007), and other books. Durgin's most recent publications include Imitation Poems (Atticus/Finch, 2007), a collaboration with book artist John Gerard entitled Relay, and a collaboration with poet-translator Jen Hofer entitled The Route (Atelos, 2008). Pavelich edits and publishes Answer Tag chapbooks an broadsides and his most recent poems and prose can be found in the anthologies A Sing Economy and The City Visible: Chicago Poetry for the New Century.

THE COLUMBIA COLLEGE CHICAGO

CENTER FOR BOOK AND PAPER ARTS

1104 South Wabash Ave., 2nd floor

Chicago, Illinois, 60605-2328

Telephone: 312-369-6630 fax: 312-369-8082

www.bookandpaper.org

E-mail: book&paper@colum.edu

CUNEIFORM IN LONDON

Small Publishers Fair 24th and 25th October:
London - Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, WC1R 4RL
Free admission to Fair and all events, open 11.00am -7.00pm
Full details at www.rgap.co.uk/spf.php

“The book as art form….”
the international event in London celebrating books by contemporary artists, poets, writers, composers, book designers, and their publishers

This year the Fair will be featuring more publishers than ever before –over fifty - with a truly international field -, two publishers from New York – Cuneiform Press and Vanitas and Libellum books; Chax press from Tucson, Arizona; Perro Verlag from Vancouver; Antic-Ham of Korea; and with publishers and presses from France, the Netherlands, Germany, Ireland, Belgium, and throughout the UK.

The Small Publishers Fair has announced this year's readings and events programme which takes place alongside the Fair. In a varied schedule, highlights include readings from Vincent Katz and Kyle Schlesinger, both poets, editors and publishers from New York, and the launch of the much acclaimed Reality Street Editions’ Book of Sonnets, to be introduced by its editor Jeff Hilson. Bill Griffiths’ The Lion Man and Others will be launched by readers from Veer Books, and for West House books, David Annwn will launch his largest collection to date, Bela Fawr's Cabaret.

The Fair brings together international artists, poets, writers, composers , book designers and publishers to celebrate contemporary artist publishing. Now in its 7th year, the Fair has attracted widespread interest, and praise for the quality of the events, and the immense variety of work on display.

More than 50 publishers are showing work , and all the books and editions are for sale, - an opportunity to buy work at an affordable price. With free admission, there's something for everyone – from top class writing, beautifully printed artists’ editions, multiples, and zines, to inexpensive pamphlets and artists cards. Several young artists’ collectives will be showing their work for the first time.

Organiser Martin Rogers of RGAP said
'The Fair has established itself as the national forum for the many small presses and independent publishers actively promoting contemporary work. A number of the books and editions on display are special; and may not find their way into conventional bookshops, or sit on regular bookshelves.'

Programme details:-

Friday 24th October
Fair open 11.00 am – 7.00pm

6.00pm Press Preview with drinks

Saturday 13th October

Fair open 11.00 am – 7.00pm

1.30 – 6.00pm Performance, readings and booklaunches in the Brockway Room at the Conway Hall as follows:

1.30
Royal Holloway MA Poetic Practice:
Readings
2.00
Cluster Arts Magazine - Act Two
Selected performances and readings
2.30
Kyle Schlesinger, Cuneiform Press
3.00
Launch: The Reality Street Book of Sonnets, introduced by Jeff Hilson
4.00
Vincent Katz reads ‘Barge’,
a collaboration with Jim Dine
4.30
West House
David Annwn and Martin Corless-Smith
5.00
Les Coleman
The Cat Talked in Latin with Greek
5.30
Veer Books launch Bill Griffiths’
The Lion Man, and readings by
Sean Bonney, Johan de Wit and others

Admission free to all events
Check www.rgap.co.uk for any updates

List of participating publishers:-

Altazimuth Press
Antic-Ham
Ian Barraclough
Alexandre Bettler
Black and White Cat Press
Boekie Woekie
The Bookroom / Emmanuelle Waeckerlé
Brown Sierra / Noisegate
Tracey Bush
Cabanon Press
CB Editions
Yves Chadouët / EESI
Chax Press
The Chinchilla
Cluster Arts Magazine
Coracle
Cuneiform Press
John Dilnot
Estepa Editions
Everyday Joy
Experimental Letterpress Workshop
FOLD
Peter Foolen Editions
Stephen Fowler
Gefn Press
Tony Hayward
In House Publishing
Xtina Lamb
Libellum Books / Vanitas magazine
Lotte Little / Per se Press
Lucky Dip
Mailworks@Bruxelles
Morning Star Publications
Moschatel Press
New Arcadian Press
Ottobooks
Perro Verlag
Pick & Mix Press
Poetic Practice at Royal Holloway
Pupa Press
Reality Street Editions
Redfoxpress
Red Sphinx
RGAP
Road Books
Colin Sackett
Shytstem & Measure by Measure
Jacqueline Thomas Books
Tufnell Art Press
Veer Books
West House Books
Wotadot
Wild Hawthorn Press
Felix Zakar

The Small Publishers Fair is organised by RGAP.
RGAP (Research Group for Artists Publications) was formed by Martin Rogers in 1994, and is an independent, artist-led organisation, which publish artists' books and editions, and works with other centres in the UK and abroad, setting up collaborative projects, publications, exhibitions and events. As well as working with visual artists, RGAP has published editions by composers, writers, sound, and performance artists, together with books of research and criticism.

Some further notes on the speakers:

Kyle Schlesinger is director of Cuneiform Press, based in Brooklyn, NY and is this year’s guest publisher at the Small Publishers Fair. Kyle publishes books with artists, poets and writers, and lectures on topics related to poetics, visual communication, and artists' books. Recent books of his poetry include The Pink and Hello Helicopter.
He edits the acclaimed publication Mimeo Mimeo, a forum for critical and cultural perspectives on the Mimeo Revolution, Artists’ Books and the Literary Fine Press
www.cuneiformpress.com

Jeff Hilson is a poet whose recent publication Stretchers was published by Reality Street Editions, in 2006. He is currently writing a prose poem sequence on British birds, and has edited the anthology Book of Sonnets published by Reality Street in 2008 – a book which “delves more thoroughly than ever before into the myriad ways poets have stretched, deconstructed and re-composed the venerable form: here we have free-verse sonnets, prose sonnets, offbeat takes on the sonnet tradition, and even visual and concrete sonnets.” www.realitystreet.co.uk

Vincent Katz is a poet, translator, art critic, editor, and curator living in New York. He is the author of nine books of poetry, including Cabal of Zealots (1988, Hanuman Books), Understanding Objects (2000, Hard Press), and Rapid Departures (2005, Ateliê Editorial). He won the 2005 National Translation Award, given by the American Literary Translators Association, for his book of translations from Latin, The Complete Elegies of Sextus Propertius (2004, Princeton University Press). He was awarded a Rome Prize Fellowship in Literature at the American Academy in Rome for 2001-2002. He had a one-month residency at the American Academy in Berlin in Spring, 2006. Katz writes frequently on contemporary art and has published essays on the work of Francesco Clemente, Jim Dine, Kiki Smith, Philip Taaffe, and Cy Twombly. He is the editor of the poetry and arts journal VANITAS and of Libellum books. www.vincentkatz.com www.vanitasmagazine.com

David Annwn is a poet and critic who lives in Wakefield, Yorkshire. He lectures for the Open University in Manchester. He is a recipient of the Cardiff International Poetry Award and a Ferguson Centre award for African and Asian Studies. Most recent amongst his books are the collaborations: It Means Nothing To Me (with Geraldine Monk), and The Last Hunting of the Lizopard (with Alan Halsey.) At the Fair, David Annwn will be launching his largest collection to date, Bela Fawr's Cabaret. www.westhousebooks.co.uk

Martin Corless-Smith is an English poet who has lived for many years in the USA and now teaches at Boise State University. West House published his collection Complete Travels in 2000. His recent books Nota and Swallows have appeared from the New York publisher Fence. In his poems 'there are many voices, heard and misheard in fragments fused in startling array'.

Veer Books will stage a multi-reader launch of Bill Griffiths' The Lion Man & others. With books such as Cycles and War W/ Windsor Griffiths opened new ground in English poetry in the 1970s and his prodigiously inventive work continued to appear from presses large and small for the next 30 years. He assembled this generous selection of his later poetry shortly before his death in September 2007. Veer will also launch books by Johan de Wit, Stephen Mooney and Piers Hugill, as well as Sean Bonney's Baudelaire in English, in which the French poet trawls the meaner streets of postBlair London tapping out corrosive translations on his derelict typewriter: Bonney makes all previous attempts at 'Baudelaire in English' seem merely polite.

Les Coleman is a London based artist who states “My own preference within publishing is the
production of items, however ephemeral, where aesthetics are controlled by economics - making content available at low cost. The printing and binding of lavish books in limited quantities and sold primarily to collectors and libraries is not a concern of mine. In many ways I see it as a disservice to publishing where exclusivity operates to deny my own wish to proliferate ideas.” Coleman has published fourteen books, numerous ephemeral items, and has contributed material to journals and magazines. “In the main I use books as repositories for ideas often when there is a theme involved, as with my collections of aphorisms Unthoughts (Ink Sculptors, 1992), Unthinking (Littlewood Arc, 1993) and Unthunk (Errata, 2002).” Coleman’s most recent book entitled ‘Dialogue’ brings together, for the first time, over 60 of his sculptural works, and awaits publication in 2008/9.

Cluster is an annual interdisciplinary arts magazine published by Ana Čavić & Reneé O’Drobinak, aka the ‘ladies of the press’, investigating notions of performance and perfomativity in print. “We cluster participants from various fields of the arts to take part in a process based publication that treats the page as a primary space for live art. Artists, writers, performers, architects and other creative minds are invited to contribute original works in various stages of progress that engage specifically with the printed form, each page operating as its own site.” www.clustermagazine.co.uk

POSTSCRIPT LANE

My thanks to Sian Steward for taking this picture for me while the family and I were on holiday in Marshfield Mass. If you don't get the joke, click here.

DAN FEATHERSTON & LUISA GIUGLIANO AT THE POETRY PROJECT

Dan Featherston and Luisa Giugliano will read at the Poetry Project on Monday October 13th 2008 at 8:00 pm. This is the first in the series of Monday Night Readings I'm curating this year. For the complete autumn schedule, click here.

Dan Featherston moved to Philadelphia from Tucson in 2005. His books of poetry include The Clock Maker's Memoir (Cuneiform Press, 2007), United States (Factory School, 2005), and Into the Earth (Quarry Press, 2005). Dan's poetry has appeared in dozens of journals, including Chain, Mandorla (Mexico), New American Writing, Sulfur, and Talisman. He currently teaches as a visiting professor at Kutztown University and lives in Germantown with Rachel McCrystal and their dog Fredo. Luisa Giugliano spent the last seventeen years in a treehouse, teaching poetry to small mammals and yoga to objects, trading antique silks, nursing unweaned babes and (imaginary) Shavian devotees. Her poems descended and on occasion proliferated in The Germ, No, Kiosk, and Fourteen Hills. When she recently climbed down, she discovered the woods were still the woods and food was still food. Although she has been at various times goldsmith and fireeater, she abides for the moment in Vermont with husband and son.

FORM AND FUNCTION The Intersection of Poetry & Architecture

Saturday, September 27
FORM AND FUNCTION: The Intersection of Poetry & Architecture
The affinity between poetry (from the Greek root "to build") and architecture ("to weave, or fabricate") is as old as language. In this symposium, practitioners from both disciplines deepen our reading of literary and built landscapes.
Co-sponsored by the AIA NY Center for Architecture. Funded, in part, by the New York Council for the Humanities, a state affiliat e of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

11:30am | Latin American Confluences:
Poetry & Architecture at the Mid-Century
A.S. Bessa, Carlos Brillembourg, Rubén Gallo & Mónica de la Torre
Far from merely reflecting the zeitgeist, poetry and architecture often change it. The subject of this exchange between poets, scholars and architects ranges from concrete poetry and idealized civic designs in midcentury South America to the politics of individual expression.
A.S. Bessa is the author of Öyvind Fahlström: The Art of Writing and editor of Novas: Selected Writings of Haroldo de Campos. Carlos Brillembourg, a New York-based architect, is the editor of Latin American Architecture 1929-1960. Rubén Gallo teaches at Princeton University and is the author of Mexican Modernity: The Avant-Garde and the Technological Revolution. Mónica de la Torre is the author of Acúfenos and Talk Shows and co-editor of Reversible Monuments: Mexican Contemporary Poetry.

2:30pm | Architexts
Louise Braverman, Susan Mitchell & Jill Stoner
Architects Jill Stoner and Louise Braverman and poet Susan Mitchell consider what architects and poets can gain from a mutual exploration of each other’s disciplines—ranging from the conceptual use of space to the seamless synthesis of metaphor.
Louise Braverman is a New York-based architect, who recently completed the design for Poets House’s new home in Battery Park City. Susan Mitchell’s collections of poetry include Rapture, which received the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and was a National Book Award Finalist, and Erotikon. Jill Stoner, editor of Poems for Architects: An Anthology, has written extensively on poetry and architecture. An architect in Northern Californ ia, she teaches at the University of California, Berkeley.
5:00pm | A Conversation with Architect Lebbeus Woods & Poet Susan Stewart
One of our country's most acclaimed and maverick architects, Lebbeus Woods, and renowned poet-critic Susan Stewart share insights from their respective roles as readers, writers and architects of ideas as they highlight current projects.
A theoretician and architect who focuses on experimentation, Lebbeus Woods's work is in numerous public collections, including the Whitney Museum of Art and the Getty Research Institute for the Arts and Humanities, and is currently on view at the Museum of Modern Art as part of "Dreamland: Architectural Experiments since the 1970s." Susan Stewart’s books of poetry include Red Rover and Columbarium, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award.

7:00pm | Between Forms: A Poetry Reading
With A.S. Bessa, Gregg Biglieri, Brenda Coultas, Patricia Spears Jones, Susan Mitchell, Frances Richard, Susan Stewart, Mónica de la Torre & Marjorie Welish
All Events take place
@ Center for Architecture
536 LaGuardia Place
$10 per event/$15 for day.
Free to AIA and Poets House Members

Crossroads: A Tribute to Bruce Conner
Tuesday October 14th
Brooklyn

What's new at Ugly Duckling Presse?

Boog City Festival photographs at David Hadbawnik's Primitive Information Blog.

OPENING AT HERMITAGE IN BEACON, NY
Mario Lemos: "Aura of Invincibility"
September 27th from 6-9 P.M.

RADIO FESTIVAL

Transmission Arts' 

Radio Festival NYC 2008

October 16--18, 2008

The Ontological is pleased to partner with free103point9 to present a fall festival of radio art and experimentation, presented during three nights and one afternoon featuring radio theater, poetics, presentations, and noise with live video web streams. Radio Festival NYC 2008 is produced in association with The Ontological-Hysteric Incubator.

Radio Theater
Thursday, October 16, 8 p.m., free admission
31 Down (free103point9 Transmission Artist)
Japanther
Part of Free Night of Theater 2008

Radio Poetics
Friday, October 17, 8 p.m., $7-10 sliding scale.
Curated by Danny Snelson.
With Alexis Bhagat (free103point9 Transmission Artist)
Kareem Estefan (Host of 'Ceptuetics, an avant-garde poetry show on WNYU)
and others.

Radio Talks
Saturday, October 18, 2 p.m., free admission
Artist Presentations from Judy Dunaway and Laura Vitale.

Radio Noise
Saturday, October 18, 8 p.m., $7-10 sliding scale.
Neg-Fi
Noveller
Tom Roe
Twisty Cat: Ed Bear + Lea Bertucci + Tianna Kennedy

At the Ontological Theater at St. Mark’s Church, 131 East 10th Street (at 2nd Avenue), NYC
For more information on free103point9 Transmission Arts, please visit www.free103point9.org

How many literary letterpress printers are there in the United States?

This is the question that Jennifer Guerra, the host and producer of Michigan Radio (an NPR affiliate in Ann Arbor) wanted to know. She is working on a story about Chad Pastotnik's Deep Woods Press, and wanted some context. She wrote to the Center for Book Arts here in New York, and they directed her to Vandercook-maverick Paul Moxon, who pointed to the Briar Press Register of Private Press Names. Good start, but not the answer. The register has over 3,000 names culled from the last 40+ years. As Paul rightly estimates, at least half of these are no longer active (Cuala and Cummington are two that I noticed immediately). Also, as the inclusion of Cuala suggests, not all of the presses are American. I did a search for half a dozen contemporary literary letterpress presses that have emerged in the last decade (including my own) and found that four out of six were not registered, so it's safe to say that the list has many defunct presses, and doesn't necessarily reflect the growing number of 21st century presses. Paul directed Jennifer to Bill and Vicki Stewart of Vamp and Tramp Booksellers. Bill said, "We represent three to four hundred makers of contemporary fine press and artists’ books (a complete list is on our website – www.vampandtramp.com). Of these 400, less than a quarter are letter press printers who regularly do what can be considered 'fine letterpress book' publishing." So maybe 100? He forwarded Jennifer's question to me. It's really hard to estimate, but I would say that there are a substantial number of printers who are not represented by Vamp and Tramp. My best guess is somewhere around 600.

What do you think?

Advertise in Mimeo Mimeo

I’m putting the finishing touches on the second issue of Mimeo Mimeo, a forum for critical and cultural perspectives on the Mimeo Revolution, Artists’ Books and the Literary Fine Press. This issue will include: Emily McVarish on her artists’ book Flicker; Jim Maynard on Robert Duncan’s early appearances in print; derek beaulieu on the influential Canadian journal Tish; and an interview I conducted with poet/typographer Alan Loney. Stunning cover designed by Emily McVarish.

Advertise your press, blog, reading series, etc. in Mimeo Mimeo. At no additional cost, a copy of Mimeo Mimeo will be mailed to your door (regular price $10 plus S&H).

Full-page (8.75 x 7) $100
Half-page (4.25 x 7) $60
Quarter-page (4.5 x 3.375) $35

All dimensions are in inches, height by width. PDF or TIF preferred (black and white only). Please make checks out to Kyle Schlesinger. We can also accept paypal directed to kyleschlesinger [at] gmail [dot] com. Please send me your ad by Wednesday October 1, 2008. Mimeo Mimeo #2 will be available on October 15th.

Kyle Schlesinger
214 North Henry Street #3
Brooklyn, NY 11222
USA

or kyleschlesinger [at] gmail [dot] com

http://mimeomimeo.blogspot.com/

CUNEIFORM PRESS AT SMALL PUBLISHERS FAIR

This year, Cuneiform will be the guest publisher featured at the:

Small Publishers Fair 2008
Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL
Readings and Events on Saturday 25th October
in the Brockway Room at the Conway Hall - Admission Free

Check this website for any updates

1.30
Royal Holloway Poetic Practice Readings
2.00
Cluster Arts Magazine Act Two Selected performances and readings
2.30
Kyle Schlesinger, Cuneiform Press
3.00
Launch: The Reality Street Book of Sonnets, introduced by Jeff Hilson
4.00
Vincent Katz reads ‘Barge’, a collaboration with Jim Dine
4.30
West House: David Annwn and Martin Corless-Smith
5.00
Les Coleman: The Cat Talked in Latin with Greek
5.30
Veer Books launch Bill Griffiths’ The Lion Man, and readings by Sean Bonney, Johan de Wit and others

SEGUE SERIES AT BPC

SEGUE READING SERIES
@ BOWERY POETRY CLUB
Saturdays: 4:00 p.m.–6:00 p.m.
308 BOWERY, just north of Houston
****$6 admission goes to support the readers****

Fall / Winter 2008–2009
Curators: Oct.–Nov., Christina Strong & Alan Davies / Dec.–Jan., Evelyn Reilly & Thom Donovan

OCTOBER 4 E. TRACY GRINELL & HEATHER FULLER
E. Tracy Grinnell is the author of Some Clear Souvenir and Music or Forgetting, as well as the limited edition chapbooks Leukadia (forthcoming), Quadriga, a collaboration with Paul Foster Johnson, Of the Frame, and Harmonics. She lives in Brooklyn where she teaches writing and
edits Litmus Press and Aufgabe, an annual journal of poetry and translations. Heather Fuller’s works include perhaps this is a rescue fantasy, Dovecote, and Startle Response. She is one of five poets featured on the narrow house recordings CD Women in the Avant Garde. She lives in
Baltimore.

OCTOBER 11 MICHAEL GOTTLIEB & MITCH HIGHFILL
Michael Gottlieb is the author of thirteen books of poetry, most recently: The Likes Of Us. His essays on Jackson Mac Low and Proust are available at www.chax.com/eoagh.com. His long essay, “Jobs Of The Poets,” is available at jacketmagazine.com. Later this year Faux/Other will publish his memoir, excerpts of which are now available at the online magazine mark(s). Mitch
Highfill is the author of Moth Light and Rebis. He recently performed parts of Moth Light accompanied by Natalia Paruz, also known as The Saw Lady. Recent work has appeared in OCHO and Critiphoria.

OCTOBER 18 TED PEARSON & DREW GARDNER
Ted Pearson is the author of sixteen books of poetry, including Evidence: 1975–1989, Planetary Gear, Songs Aside: 1992–2002, and Encryptions. He also co-edits markszine.com and is a co-author of The Grand Piano. He lives in Redlands, California. Drew Gardner’s books are Petroleum Hat and Sugar Pill. He lives in Harlem. He does musical collaborations with poets
and conducts the Poetics Orchestra.

OCTOBER 25 PETER CULLEY & CARLA HARRYMAN
Peter Culley lives in South Wellington, British Columbia. His books include The Climax Forest, Hammertown, and The Age of Briggs & Stratton. Carla Harryman’s Adorno’s Noise will be released from Essay Press this fall. Recent publications include the book length poem Open Box, the novel Gardener of Stars, Baby, and the special edition Toujours l’épine es sous la rose. Harryman is co-editor of Lust for Life: On the Writings of Kathy Acker and a co-author of The Grand Piano: An Experiment in Collective Autobiography, San Francisco, 1975–1980.

NOVEMBER 1 tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE & DARREN WERSHLER
tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE is sitting next to you right now. Depending. (He’s sitting) upon “how you define ‘next’”. When he does that, he’s doing ‘this’ too. Darren Wershler lives in Toronto and teaches new media and media history at Wilfrid Laurier University. His most recent books are The Iron Whim: A Fragmented History Of Typewriting, and Apostrophe (with Bill Kennedy).

NOVEMBER 8 KATHLEEN FRAZER & ALLISON COBB
Kathleen Fraser teaches at CCA/SF and annually migrates to Rome where she and NYC painter Hermine Ford recently showed wall texts from their on-going collaboration ii ss at Pratt Architecture Institute. (Pieces from this show currently up at Melville House, Dumbo/Brooklyn). Recent books: 20th Century, hi dde violeth i dde violet, Discrete Categories Forced Into Coupling, and W I T N E S S (artist book with Nancy Tokar Miller.) Allison Cobb is the author of Born2 and is at work on a long piece about the Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn. She was born in Los Alamos, New Mexico, and now lives in Brooklyn.

NOVEMBER 15 STEVE MCCAFFREY & KAREN MAC CORMAC
Steve McCaffery is the author of more than 21 volumes of poetry and four books of theory and criticism. His most recent title is Slightly Left of Thinking: Poems, Texts and Postcognitions. He lives in Buffalo where he is the David Gray Professor of Poetry and Letters at the University at Buffalo. Karen Mac Cormack is the author of more than a dozen books of poetry. Her most recent publication *Implexures* (the Complete Edition) was published in 2008 by Chax Press/West House Books.

NOVEMBER 22 KIT ROBINSON & BERNADETTE MAYER
Kit Robinson is a co-author of The Grand Piano: An Experiment in Collective Autobiography, San Francisco, 1975–1980. His books include The Messianic Trees: Selected Poems (forthcoming), 9:45, The Crave, and Democracy Boulevard. Kit lives in Berkeley. Bernadette Mayer is the author of Memory, Studying Hunger, A Bernadette Mayer Reader, Midwinter Day, and many other works. Forthcoming in 2008: Poetry State Forest, The Cave with Clark Coolidge, and Ethics Of Sleep.

DECEMBER 6 LESLIE SCALAPINO & ARNOLD J. KEMP
Leslie Scalapino is the author of thirty books of poetry, inter-genre fiction, and criticism. Among recent works are Day Ocean State of Stars’ Night and It’s go in horizontal/Selected Poems 1974–2006. Arnold J. Kemp is a visual artist and writer. His writing has appeared in Callaloo, Three Rivers Poetry Journal, Agni Review, Mirage #4 Period(ical), River Styx, Nocturnes, and Art Journal. In 2005 and 2007, Small Press Traffic commissioned two of his plays/performances for the San Francisco Poets Theater.

DECEMBER 13 STACY DORIS & DAWN LUNDY MARTIN
Stacy Doris’ books include Cheerleader’s Guide to the World: Council Book, Knot, Conference, Paramour, and Kildare. She also writes books in French and co-edited collections of new French poetry in translation. With Lisa Robertson, she is currently in the process of making audio recordings of 18th-century perfumes. Dawn Lundy Martin was awarded the 2006 Cave Canem Poetry Prize for A Gathering of Matter/A Matter of Gathering. She is also the author of The Morning Hour, selected in 2003 for the Poetry Society of America’s National Chapbook Fellowship.

DECEMBER 20 LARRY FAGIN & KYLE SCHLESINGER
Larry Fagin’s most recent publication is Dig & Delve, a collaboration with the artist Trevor Winkfield. He is the co-publisher of Adventures in Poetry books and the founder of Danspace, the dance program at St. Mark’s Church In-the-Bowery. Kyle Schlesinger’s books include The Pink, Hello Helicopter and Schablone Berlin with Caroline Koebel. With Thom Donovan and Michael Cross, he edits ON, a poetics journal that focuses on contemporaries.

JANUARY
JANUARY 10 TONY CONRAD & CAROLEE SCHNEEMANN
Tony Conrad was a participant in the founding of minimal music and structural film. Recently his Yellow Movies (1972–73) have been exhibited at the Greene-Naftali and Daniel Buchholz galleries. His installation Beholden to Victory (1980–2007) opened in May at Overduin and Kite in L.A. Carolee Schneemann’s video, film, painting, photography, performance art and installation works have been shown at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, NYC, and Europe. Correspondence Course, edited by Kristine Stiles, is forthcoming from Duke University Press. Previous published books include Imaging Her Erotics—Essays, Interviews, Projects and More Than Meat Joy: Complete Performance Work and Selected Writings.

JANUARY 17 MARCELLA DURAND & ERICA HUNT
Marcella Durand is the author of AREA, Traffic & Weather, The Anatomy of Oil, Western Capital Rhapsodies, City of Ports, and Lapsus Linguae. For the past several years she has been translating Michèle Métail’s book-length work, Les horizons du sol/Earth’s Horizons. Erica Hunt is the author of Local History, Arcade, and Piece Logic. She is the president of
the 21st Century Foundation.

JANUARY 24 TINA DARRAGH & LINH DINH
Tina Darragh’s essay “Blame Global Warming on Thoreau?” is included in the )((eco)(lang)(uage (reader)), forthcoming from Portable Press at Yo Yo Labs. A section of “Deep eco pre,” her collaboration with Marcella Durand, has been posted on How2. Darragh is happy to confirm the rumors that her opposable dumbs project is being plagiarized. Linh Dinh is the author of two collections of stories, Fake House and Blood and Soap; four books of poems, All Around What Empties Out, American Tatts, Borderless Bodies and Jam Alerts; and a novel, Love Like Hate, scheduled to be released in 2009 by Seven Stories Press.

JANUARY 31 WRITING ACROSS POETICS & VISUAL ART
Readings and presentations by poets and visual artists that speak across disciplinary boundaries. Participants to be announced.

BILL BERKSON AT SVA

The SVA MFA Art Criticism and Writing Program presents a lecture by

Bill Berkson

Some Divine Conversation:
Poetry, Art and the Death of the Addressee

Thursday, October 9th @ 7pm
209 East 23rd Street
SVA 3rd floor Amphitheater
New York, NY 10010

An Iraqi poet interviewed recently on NPR said that for him and his contemporaries the purpose of writing poetry is “to keep the language from going insane.” What now might sanity look like — in poems, in visual art, in other forms of social conduct? Who is reading, looking, and who really cares? Berkson's talk will open with such questions; a conversation with the audience will follow.

Bill Berkson was born in New York in 1939. A poet, critic, teacher and sometime curator, he moved to Northern California in 1970 and during the next decade, edited a series of little magazines and books under the Big Sky imprint. From 1984 to 2008 he was a professor of Liberal Arts at the San Francisco Art Institute. He is a corresponding editor for Art in America and has contributed reviews and essays to other journals, such as Aperture, Artforum, Works on Paper, and Modern Painters. His recent books of poetry include Gloria (in a deluxe limited edition with etchings by Alex Katz), Our Friends Will Pass Among You Silently, and Goods and Services. Other books include: a collection of his criticism, The Sweet Singer of Modernism and Other Art Writings: 1985-2003; Sudden Address: Selected Lectures 1981-2006; and an epistolary collaboration with Bernadette Mayer entitled What's Your Idea of a Good Time? Interviews and Letters 1977-1985. His Portrait and Dream: New & Selected Poems will appear from Coffee House Press in 2009. Berkson was the 2006 Distinguished Mellon Fellow at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. He now lives in New York and San Francisco.

Sponsored by the MFA Art Criticism and Writing Department
School of Visual Arts, Art in the First Person Lecture Series

This lecture is free and open to the public .

Copies of Bill Berkson's Sudden Address: Selected Lectures 1981-2006 are available from our homepage as well as SPD.

Center for 21st Century Music

For the last three years I've enjoyed designing printed matter for the Music Department at UB. Going back to at least 1973, when Morton Feldman started teaching, the Department has enjoyed a history of innovation, and is currently under the direction of the terrific composer David Felder. To sweeten the deal, they always throw in free tickets to any event (Steve Reich and Philip Glass were two of the most memorable performances I've attended).

The last two annual calendars have been similar to the one that appears above. The first year featured silver ink on a black background, which gave the photographs the restrained glow of a daguerreotype. The second year was copper lettering on black (technically the other way around).

This year they asked me to produce a larger format, and to use colour photographs instead of black and white. I spent the better half of the afternoon adapting the former legal-sized specifications of the larger, tabloid sized format (I figure that the printing costs should be about the same, given that they're both standards). Moreover, the tabloid sheet can be folded into sixths and mailed at a cost no greater than a standard business envelope (and you don't need an envelope to mail it).

I prefer black and white photography most of the time, but I'm happy with the results here. Bright but not silly. I've used a traditional combination of parchment coloured paper with black and red lettering. The fonts are Eric Gill's refined Perpetua and Perpetua Titling (which happen to be used in the Barack Obama Presidential Campaign).

Desperate thought

The masthead of the University of Montana Creative Writing Program homepage. Ouch!

2nd Annual Welcome to Boog City

4 DAYS OF POETRY AND MUSIC

get the whole schedule here as a pdf

DAY 1
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 18, 6:00 P.M.
d.a. levy lives: celebrating the renegade press
minor/american
(Durham, N.C.)
ACA Galleries
529 W.20th St., 5th Flr.
NYC
Free

Event will be hosted by minor/american editorsElise Ficarra and Kathryn Pringle, eds. featuring readings from Samar Albuhassan, David Need, Andrea Rexilius, Ken Rumble, Diane Timblin, and music from Liv Carrow.

There will be wine, cheese, and crackers, too.
Directions: C/E to 23rd St., 1/9 to 18th St.
Venue is bet. 10th and 11th avenues

DAY 2

FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 19, 7:00 P.M.
Sidewalk Café
94 Ave. A
NYC
Free with a two-drink minimum

Readings, musical, and poets’ theater performances, and Lou Reed’s New York album live
7:00 p.m.-Jim Behrle
7:15 p.m.-Daniel Nester
7:35 p.m.-Dibson T. Hoffweiler (music)
8:05 p.m.-Arlo Quint
8:20 p.m.-Bob Holman
8:35 p.m.-Verse Theater Manhattan doing a reading of Frank O'Hara's verse drama
9:35 p.m.-Gillian McCain
9:50 p.m.-Lou Reed, New York. Performed live by:
*Babs Soft
Romeo Had Juliette
Halloween Parade
*The Rabbits
Dirty Blvd.
Endless Cycle
*Dibson T. Hoffweiler & Preston Spurlock
There Is No Time
Last Great American Whale
*Liv Carrow
Beginning of a Great Adventure
Busload of Faith
*Prewar Yardsale
Sick of You
Hold On
*Wakey Wakey
Good Evening Mr. Waldheim
Xmas in February
*Todd Carlstrom and The Clamour
Strawman
Dime Store Mystery
11:20 p.m.-Todd Carlstrom and The Clamour
12:10 a.m.-The Rabbits

Directions: F/V to 2nd Ave., L to 1st Ave.
Venue is at E.6th St.

DAY 3
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 20, 11:00 A.M.
Cakeshop
152 Ludlow St.
NYC
$5

5th Annual Small, Small Press Fair
Featuring readings from authors of the exhibiting presses
11:10 a.m.-Brant Lyon, LOGOchrysalis
11:20 a.m.-Andrew Bishop, Graphic Union Press
11:30 a.m.-Celena Glenn, Bowery Books
11:40 a.m.-Mark Lamoureux, Cy Gist Press
11:50 a.m.-Ariana Reines, Fence/Fence Books
12:00 p.m.-Adam Golaski, flim forum press
12:10 p.m.-Damian Weber, House Press
12:20 a.m.-Virna Teixeira, Litmus Press/Aufgabe
12:30 p.m.-Jaye Bartell, little scratch pad
12:40 p.m.-Jeff Downey, Octopus Books
12:50 p.m.-Melissa Christine Goodrum, Other Rooms Press
1:10 p.m.-Austin Alexis, Poets Wear Prada
1:20 p.m.-Tom Savage, Straw Gate Books
1:30 p.m.-Stephanie Gray
1:45 p.m.-Bill Kushner
2:00 p.m.-Oak Orchard Swamp (music)
2:30 p.m.-Ryan Eckes
2:50 p.m.-Eric Gelsinger
3:10 p.m.-Douglas Manson
3:30 p.m.-Heart Parts (music)
4:00 p.m.-Elise Ficarra
4:20 p.m.-Kristianne Meal
4:40 p.m.-Kathryn Pringle
5:00 p.m.-Maureen Thorson
5:20 p.m.-Carol Mirakove
5:35 p.m.-A Brief View of the Hudson (music)
6:05 p.m.-Jen Benka
6:20 p.m.-Todd Colby
6:35 p.m.-Kyle Schlesinger
6:55 p.m.-David Hadbawnik
7:15 p.m.-Sharon Mesmer
7:30 p.m.-Casey Holford (music)

Directions: F/V to 2nd Ave.
Venue is bet. Stanton and Rivington sts.

DAY 4
SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 21, 1:00 P.M.
Unnameable Books
456 Bergen St.
Brooklyn
Free

1:00 p.m.-Julia Cohen
1:15 p.m.-Tisa Bryant
1:30 p.m.-Ana Božičević
1:45 p.m.-Yoko Kikuchi (music)
2:05 p.m.-Corrine Fitzpatrick
2:20 p.m.-Nick Piombino
2:35 p.m.-Stacy Szymaszek

2:50 p.m.-3:00-break
3:00 p.m.- Race and Poetry: Integrating the Experimental
Amy King (curator and moderator)
Tisa Bryant
Jennifer Firestone
Timothy Liu
Mendi Obadike
Meghan Punschke
Christopher Stackhouse
Mathias Svalina
4:30 p.m.-4:40-break
4:40 p.m.-Yoko Kikuchi (music)
5:00 p.m.-Lee Ann Brown
5:15 p.m.-John Coletti
5:30 p.m.-Rachel Levitsky
5:45 p.m.-Eileen Myles
6:00 p.m.-Yoko Kikuchi (music)
6:20 p.m.-Edward Foster in conversation with Simon Pettet
6:50 p.m.-Simon Pettet
7:10 p.m.-Edward Foster

Directions: 2, 3 to Bergen St.; 2, 3, 4, 5, M, N, Q, W, R, B, D to Atlantic Ave./Pacific St.; C to Lafayette Ave. Venue is bet. 5th/Flatbush aves.

P-Queue

is out. Contributors include: Dan Beachy-Quick, Jessica Bozek, Eli Drabman, Julia Drescher, Eric Elshtain, Mark Stephen Finein, Gnoetry0.2, Ariel Goldberg, Erica Lewis, C.J. Martin, Srikanth Reddy, Linda Russo, Christopher Schmidt,  Dan Waber. And an impressive edition from QUEUE, chapbook series adjunct to the journal: Mobius Crowns by Dan Beachy-Quick and Srikanth Reddy
48 pages (in two volumes).

BUZZ SPECTOR

at the Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts

WHALEN NOTEBOOKS

I always loose something in the original

Passion and Danger

Christopher Harter's essay, "Passion and Danger: The Renaissance of Literary Publishing During the Mimeograph Revolution" is now online at the Lummox Journal. This essay originally appeared in the first issue of Mimeo Mimeo, a journal on Artists' Books, Literary Fine Press, and the Mimeo Revolution I edit with Jed Birmingham. The second issue will be available in the near future, and will include articles by Jim Maynard, derek beaulieu, Alan Loney, and Emily McVarish.

Artists' Books in Korea

On Kevin's Blog

Some Essential Books About Printing, Typography & Artists’ Books

Here are a handful of books that will inspire aspiring publishers and stand the test of time. Order direct from the publisher or support your independent book store. Out-of-print titles can be found at AddALL. Now that the Cuneiform DIY page is in the the great HTML hellbucket in the aether, I thought I should put this here for the time being.

Bringhurst, Robert. The Elements of Typographic Style. Version 2.5. Vancouver, Hartley & Marks, 1997.

Burke, Clifford. Printing Poetry. San Francisco, Scarab Press, 1980.

Carter, Sebastian. Twentieth Century Type Designers. New York, Taplinger, 1987.

Cave, Roderick. The Private Press. New York, Watson-Guptill, 1971. (And revised 2nd edition, c. 1988.)

Chappell, Warren & Robert Bringhurst. A Short History of the Printed Word. Vancouver, Hartley and Marks, 1999.

Clay, Steven & Rodney Phillips, eds. A Secret Location on the Lower East Side: Adventures in Writing, 1960-1980. New York: Granary Books, 1998.

Dana, Robert ed., Against the Grain: Interviews with Maverick American Publishers. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1986.

Drucker, Johanna. The Alphabetic Labyrinth: The Letters in History and Imagination. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1995.
—. The Century of Artists’ Books. New York: Granary Books, 1995.
—. Figuring the Word: Essays on Books, Writing and Visual Poetics. New York: Granary Books, 1998.

Duncan, Harry. Doors of Perception: Essays in Book Typography. Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1983.

Franklin, Colin. The Private Presses. London, Studio Vista, 1969.

Glaister, Geoffrey Ashall. The Encyclopaedia of the Book. New Castle, Delaware, Oak Knoll, 1998.

Jury, David. Letterpress: The Allure of the Handmade. Hove, U.K. & Mies, Switzerland: RotoVision, 2004.

Loney, Alan. Meditatio: the printer printed: manifesto. Buffalo, Cuneiform Press, 2004.

McLean, Ruari. The Thames and Hudson Manual of Typography. London, Thames and Hudson, 1980.

Morris, William. The Ideal Book: Essays and Lectures on the Arts of the Book. Ed. William S. Peterson. London, Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1982.

Rothenberg, Jerome & Steven Clay, eds., A Book of the Book: Some Works & Projections about the Book & Writing. New York: Granary Books, 2000.

Rummonds, Richard-Gabriel. Printing on the Iron Handpress. New Castle, Oak Knoll Press and London, The British Library, 1998.

Shepard, Leslie. The History of Street Literature: The Story of Broadside Ballads, Chapbooks, Proclamations, News-Sheets, Election Bills, Tracts, Pamphlets, Cocks, Catchpennies and other Ephemera. Devon, England: David Newton & Charles Abbot, 1973.

Updike, Daniel Berkeley. Printing Types: Their History, Form & Use. Cambridge, Belknap Press, Harvard, 1966 (2nd printing of 3rd edition; also available in paperback from Dover Books in 2 vols.).

Wilson, Adrian. The Design of Books. Salt Lake City, Peregrine Smith, 1974.

REMINDER: TONIGHT AT UNNAMABLE

A rare, US appearance by Jesse Seldess along with Frances Richard & Kyle Schlesinger

TONIGHT!

September 4th at 7 pm

Unnamable Books
456 Bergen Street, Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
(between 5th Ave and Flatbush Ave)
http://www.yelp.com/map/unnameable-books-brooklyn-2

Jesse Seldess' book, Who Opens was published by Kenning Editions. Chapbooks of his poems have been published by Answer Tag Press, Bronze Skull Press and the Chicago Poetry Project. He lives in Berlin where he organizes The Floating Series of exhibitions and events with Leonie Weber as well as edits Antennae, a journal of experimental writing, music, and performance.

Frances Richard's forthcoming chapbooks included Anarch. from Woodland Editions, as well as S h a v e d C o d e from Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs and her book of poems, See Through, was published by Four Way Books in 2003. She writes frequently about contemporary art, teaches at Barnard College and the Rhode Island School of Design, and lives in Brooklyn.

Kyle Schlesinger is the author of Hello Helicopter (Blaze Vox) and most recently, The Pink (Kenning Editions). He is the proprietor of Cuneiform Press and the Monday Night Coordinator at St. Marks Poetry Project.

REMINDER: TONIGHT AT UNNAMABLE

Jesse Seldess, Frances Richard & Kyle Schlesinger

September 4th at 7 pm

Unnamable Books
456 Bergen Street, Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
(between 5th Ave and Flatbush Ave)
http://www.yelp.com/map/unnameable-books-brooklyn-2

Jesse Seldess' book, Who Opens was published by Kenning Editions. Chapbooks of his poems have been published by Answer Tag Press, Bronze Skull Press and the Chicago Poetry Project. He lives in Berlin where he organizes The Floating Series of exhibitions and events with Leonie Weber as well as edits Antennae, a journal of experimental writing, music, and performance.

Frances Richard's forthcoming chapbooks included Anarch. from Woodland Editions, as well as S h a v e d C o d e from Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs and her book of poems, See Through, was published by Four Way Books in 2003. She writes frequently about contemporary art, teaches at Barnard College and the Rhode Island School of Design, and lives in Brooklyn.

Kyle Schlesinger is the author of Hello Helicopter (Blaze Vox) and most recently, The Pink (Kenning Editions). He is the proprietor of Cuneiform Press and the Monday Night Coordinator at St. Marks Poetry Project.

TWO NEW POEMS AT INTERBIRTH

Two new poems at Interbirth Press.

CONFESSIONS OF A SMALL PRESS RACKETEER

Don't judge a book by it's cover. Fair enough. The iconic manual typewriter and distressed woodtype title led me to believe that Stuart Ross' Confessions of a Small Press Racketeer would be a book about small press publishing (typography, design, soliciting manuscripts, working with artists, distribution, and the politics of change from the ground up, etc.). This isn't entirely untrue. Ross' witty, moody, journalistic entries are an insightful glimpse into one Toronto-based poet's experience of small press culture in the most inclusive sense (i.e. the activity of poetry presses and poets that are not driven by capitalist incentives; i.e. most of them). Written primarily for the newspaper, Ross' arguments have a strong populist appeal insofar as the book deals with the social aspects of non-commercial publishing rather than the nuts and bolts of being a publisher, let alone a printer. What does it mean to be published? Ross has sold his self-published books on the streets for years, and stirs meaningful questions about audience, distribution, and what drives us to publish in the first place. If it isn't fame and fortune, what is it? If you're looking for a book that deals with the history of small press publishing or a book on design, distribution, etc. Confessions of a Small Press Racketeer is not the book for you. 

As an aside, I should mention that Ross published a terrific book by his hero, Ron Padgett, this past winter. If I Were You  is a collection of Ron's collaborations with other poets, including Bill Berkson, Ted Berrigan, Tom Clark, Larry Fagin, Dick Gallup, Allen Ginsberg, Lita Hornick, Alice Notley, Douglas Oliver, James Schuyler, Tom Veitch, and Yu Jian, with a cover drawing by Joe Brainard. This book is a treasure in every sense. To order a copy, just click here. 

1899 C&P 8x12 O.S.

Dan Morris and I drove out to Long Island to pick up a couple of cabinets and a press that belonged to the late Robert P. Long, author of Wood Type and Printing Collectibles. I never knew that Long Island was so beautiful! Bob left these items to his friend and neighbor Barbara Ripel and she was kind enough to donate them to the studio at The Arm. More photographs available here.