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still in town

March 11, 2012 in Link, making, My life, Thinking

a few haiku: interior view

…still around. Just getting ready for this to launch on Friday. And making other plans. Trying to find the quiet space which teaching and the frenetic whirl of publishing/marketing/publicising/designing/binding/organising make hard to locate. I’m looking forward to a span of time where nothing except my own work is on my to-do list. At the moment it is about 90% comprised of things that support others’ creative work (publishing stuff, teaching stuff). I like it and I’m glad I can do it, but I also really miss the quiet and centered time for my own writing.

This is one of the 52 books. I am making a portfolio.

Updates Monday through Friday on the MIEL blog, you know. Eventually I would like to feature small shops, bookstores, cafés. Know of any that deserve attention?

making (and bookish things)

February 26, 2012 in I made it, Link, making, My life, Poem, Thinking | 4 comments

quilt-ing

SMALL

things: a quilt for my friend’s birthday. A book. I didn’t mention yet that in conjunction with MIEL and 111O, I’m also making one handmade book each week, in editions from two to…quite a few more than two. I wanted to have a project I could work on all year, and one that would let me try new forms. So books it is. The one above is called SMALL: a manifesto. It comes with a magnifying glass because the type is…small.

Some of these books will be for sale via MIEL’s table at States of Independence, a small press day in Leicester (March 17).

Did I mention that excerpts from a long poem I wrote have been published in the (online) magazine Free Verse? They have, and you can read them here.

Thank you for your thoughtful engagement on my last post. At one point in the poem (in the excerpts) I am talking in idealistic terms about working and being together, and I say “I never said I could do the things I want you to do”. Which is kind of how I feel about all this. I mean, I want to do it but often fail. But I will continue to try. And to offer my support and understanding for anyone else who is trying, too.

what’s going on

January 26, 2012 in Art, I made it, Link, making, My life, Thinking | 7 comments

It feels uncomfortable to post pretty photos when children are detained in solitary confinement (regardless of your politics, can we agree that solitary confinement is torture? And that, if anyone is to be tortured–which I don’t think should happen, but if you are ok with it maybe you can also agree that–it should not be children?) and people are working for no money to make gadgets we sure like but maybe don’t need, not the way we (all) need things like food & water, shelter, and love. And people in Japan are still suffering from the effects of the tsunami and earthquake almost a year ago. And US politics seems more and more insane from the outside, not to mention that some people think it’s ok to make this much money when other people on earth make this much. Or less. Or work in indentured positions. Or are outright enslaved. And still there are people who think that we shouldn’t have to take care of the people around us (by ensuring that they–and we–have access to education, infrastructure, and healthcare). And that’s the tip of the iceberg.

Which is why I haven’t been around a ton. I have a hard time reconciling my inner and private life (which is complex, contradictory) with an online life that at its best is often still flat and dimensionless. That I am making poems/objects/pictures/books and also I am worrying about the lives of the people around me, the ones I know and the ones I don’t. (Thanks, Juliana Spahr.)

STITCH

But I have been working on things, and I will try to be present here more often. I just want to find a way to be here that acknowledges all the things I am thinking about, and just posting photos of nice stuff doesn’t really do that for me. On the other hand, making things is part of the way I am in-the-world and it’s part of (and formational of) my ethics. I just don’t want to contribute to a blithe ignorance of the privilege I (we) have to live like this.

just–

December 13, 2011 in I made it, Link, making, My life, People to see, Places to go, Things to do

signifier troubleThe biodiversity library on flickr has an amazing collection of botanical images.
Harika, a blog I just found today, via @pollygannon on twitter.
Some Minneapolis friends and I are having a handmade market on December 19.

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