I reorganized the look of this site a bit, particularly the right hand side bar, to hopefully be a tad more user-friendly. I also added a couple sections for my local content articles and travel articles. Hopefully, I'll be adding more content to those sections soon. In the meantime, if you desire to read more articles by yours truly, might I recommend that you pay a visit to the Blood Pudding Press blog (just click that lovely bloody telekinetic female to your right) and check out THAT right hand side bar for my little section called 'my reviews of others etc...' for a small plethora of book review writing and more.
As far as my FAVORITE kind of writing, poetry, I am slowly but surely working my way through the reading of the Dusie Issue 8 e-book (see previous entry), plus reading newly acquired print chapbooks by Laura Goldstein and Kate Durbin. Yay! Oh and I am also very delighted to report that three more of my designer vaginas have been chosen. They will be published in the upcoming second anniversary issue of the ever splendiferous diode! Woohoo! That makes four designer vaginas accepted, seven designer vaginas still in circulation, and probably at least a few more as-yet-to-be-written designer vaginas.
However, I think today's creative time is going to be pretty well used up with finishing a DIY feminist poetry publishing article and a Labor Day drinks article, designing chapbooks, sending out a Blood Pudding Press announcement, etc... Plus, I won a free ticket to a local concert tonight (The Crystal Method at BOMA) so am going to that. Busy not to be confused with busty. Also grappling with more job-related angst, but I'll keep that topic to myself for now.
Showing posts with label DIY. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DIY. Show all posts
6/14/09
latest creative business
I sold out of my official copies of MONDO CRAMPO a couple months ago. They were published by Dana Teen Lomax for the dusie kollektiv 3 and were really slick-looking with bright red see-through covers and brad bindery, but alas, they are gone.
Well, I was recently asked for a review copy of MONDO CRAMPO and I remembered that Dana Teen had sent me some extra loose innards that she had leftover after assembling the chapbooks--basically, everything except the sleek red cover piece and the bindery hardware.So I decided to assemble a copy myself, stitched together with fringey turquoise ribbon that kinda looks like theatrical blue pubic hair.
I am pretty pleased with the way it turned out. I have just enough supplies to make two (and only two) more limited-edition copies like this, so if you want one, get in touch. I'll send a review copy for free; I'll also consider trade copies or sale copies. Let me know if you're interested and we can make some arrangements.
update: If you'd rather have one of the official red copies, even though I don't have any more, you can still request a review copy from either Galatea Resurrects or The Chapbook Review:
http://grarchives.blogspot.com/
http://thechapbookreview.com/submission-guidelines/available-for-review/
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Also, I plan to soon begin revamping some of the content of this article:
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1494846/diy_poetry_publishing_power.html?cat=38
My revised version is going to be submitted to make/shift magazine--and for that revised version, I am seeking more voices of women of color poetry editors/publishers.
If you think you might be interested in having your voice represented, please feel free to get in touch with me, whereupon I shall share a few more details with you.
XO. Juliet
2/27/09
review
my itty bitty review of Catherine Meng’s dusie kollektiv 3 poetry chapbook ‘LOST WORKBOOK W/LETTERS TO DEER’:
This dusie kollektiv 3 chapbook especially strikes my fancy from its unique design to its charming title to the quirky curios within. I can visualize these adorable little booklets spilling forth from misshapen baskets at craft fair tables, mixed with multicolored fabric poppies or battered pointe shoes. I can see them at bake sale tables accompanied by giant blonde brownies and tiny lime crèmes. I can see them snuck into public lavatories, placed slightly askew atop shiny silver dispensers for pink hand soap. I can see them at a Rasputina concert in a white wicker basket with Victorian hankies and vials of strange notions & potions.
The retro looking sewing instruction cover and ever so slightly crooked pages strike me as both endearing and well-crafted. I feel like I’m privy to a quaint personal art project. I feel like I’m holding precision ephemera. I hear the click of knitting needles and feel the silky wisp of vintage seam binding remnants.
The poems function based on their own peculiar logic and complement each other well. They seem both curiously amusing and quite significant in their own odd way.
This chapbook puts me in mind of pinking shears carefully cutting serrated edges.
This dusie kollektiv 3 chapbook especially strikes my fancy from its unique design to its charming title to the quirky curios within. I can visualize these adorable little booklets spilling forth from misshapen baskets at craft fair tables, mixed with multicolored fabric poppies or battered pointe shoes. I can see them at bake sale tables accompanied by giant blonde brownies and tiny lime crèmes. I can see them snuck into public lavatories, placed slightly askew atop shiny silver dispensers for pink hand soap. I can see them at a Rasputina concert in a white wicker basket with Victorian hankies and vials of strange notions & potions.
The retro looking sewing instruction cover and ever so slightly crooked pages strike me as both endearing and well-crafted. I feel like I’m privy to a quaint personal art project. I feel like I’m holding precision ephemera. I hear the click of knitting needles and feel the silky wisp of vintage seam binding remnants.
The poems function based on their own peculiar logic and complement each other well. They seem both curiously amusing and quite significant in their own odd way.
This chapbook puts me in mind of pinking shears carefully cutting serrated edges.
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