Kalamazoo people--the best thing coming

Featuring poets:

Lily Brown
Amanda Nadelberg
Joshua Marie Wilkinson

and presenting a commemorative broadside
with works by each poet created by artist Nikkita Cohoon

view the current exhibition:
A Celebration of Michigan Prints


free and open to the public!

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Lily Brown was born in Boston, Massachusetts and currently lives and teaches in Chicago, Illinois. She holds an M.F.A. from Saint Mary's College of California, and her poems have appeared in Fence, Pleiades, Octopus, Typo, Tarpaulin Sky, and Handsome, among other journals. Her first chapbook, The Renaissance Sheet, was published by Octopus Books in 2007, and her second chapbook, Old with You, is forthcoming from Kitchen Press this winter.

Amanda Nadelberg is the author of Isa the Truck Named Isadore (Slope Editions, 2006). Her poems have appeared in journals like Conduit, Vanitas, Typo, jubilat and No: a journal of the arts. A graduate of Carleton College, she is currently attending the Iowa Writers Workshop.

Born and raised in Seattle, Joshua Marie Wilkinson is the author of three books and two more are forthcoming: The Book of Whispering in the Projection Booth (Tupelo 2009) and 12x12: Conversations in 21st Century Poetry & Poetics (Iowa 2009). After stints in Prague, Spain, Turkey, and Slovakia, and some years in the Arizona, Colorado, and Ireland he has recently settled in Chicago. For the last 5 years he's been making a tour film about the band Califone with Solan Jensen called Made a Machine by Describing the Landscape. And three new chapbooks--A Brief History of Gossip (Dos Press), Cold Faction (Further Adventures), and Until the Lantern's Shaky Song (Cinematheque Press)--are all forthcoming. He teaches creative writing and literature at Loyola University.

artists i'm digging

Craig Atkinson is an artist working in the UK and also the shop owner of Cafe Royal Press--a great line of t-shirts, zines, and other great things. His website showcases some of his work, as well as his sketchbooks--both as images and videos.




I love the combination of found images, collage, and drawing. His sketchbooks have a very lived in look. You can tell he is constantly recording his surroundings in a unique way.

Joe Baglow is another UK artist I really enjoy. Much of his work is in book form and full of strange juxtapositions and quirky illustrations.



Although his website appears to be in Danish (I'm guessing), Gitte Bach's drawings speak for themselves. I love how fresh his simple graphite drawings are. I often use drawing as a means to an end, but this makes me reconsider.



Camilla Engman has been one of my favorite artists for awhile now. She has great paper collages as well as wonderfully layered paintings. Recently, she paired up with artist Elisabeth Dunker to create Studio Violet, a wonderful collaboration between the two.





More of my own work soon.

imbibing

loving: blueprints, architecture, found geometric shapes

as well as organic ones

I am learning to take notice. To take where I am and make it worthwhile. A corner of my bedroom is my workspace (it often spills out from that corner). My back is constantly hunched over one thing or another. I am writing and thinking and making marks. Appreciating brushstrokes. Learning to layer. Drinking coffee. Recording, making notes.

inspired

My new goal is to take my camera with me more places. I encounter a lot of great designs in antique and salvage stores, but only have my phone to document them most of the time.




I love each of these individually, but even the arrangment and the nails they are hanging on is great.









I saw these when we went apple picking today. I love how the letter forms look stacked side by side and on top of each other.