Monday, March 16, 2009

Back on the press (with collaborators!)

Ok, so after a month or so of intensive writing/teaching and little-to-no book progress, I finally got back on the press this weekend to take some proofs for Matt Henriksen's Another Word. Which, friends, let me tell you, is a heck of a poem. And now that I'm rolling again, I'm totally freaking psyched about this book. Because not only is the poem great, but the book is also going to have as a cover image a beautiful photo by awesome Minneapolis photographer/all-around cool guy Rich Fleischman. And I've also commissioned a screenprint from letterpress intern/screenprinting aficionado/tornado of fun Jeff Peterson for the book itself. It's gonna be pretty. In fact, it's gonna knock your socks off. More images to come, but in the meantime, I'll leave you with the picture Jeff took of me in the letterpress studio at MCBA. Printing with other people=pictures of something besides my hands! Documentation! (Isn't the MCBA studio sweet, by the way? Look at all those presses!)