Collaborators’ Q&A: Artist Meghan Keane: Corrosive chemicals are not only at play in the making of the print but are quite visible in the image that’s created, underscoring the meaning of the poem on a few levels. Poet Amy A. Whitcomb: Meghan’s art makes the poem strange to me again. It reintroduces a layer of ambiguity that I thought the speaker had wiped out. But now the speaker doesn’t get the last say, nor does the subject, the poet, or the artist. The whole, the collaboration, has its own agenda.
Poet Amy A. Whitcomb is an artist, editor, and educator based in California and Idaho. She is a recipient of artist residencies at Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Jentel Foundation, and PLAYA. Artist Meghan Keane is a painter and printmaker. She is the founding director of meghan.keane.studio and a visiting alumni artist at the Brooklyn College art department printshop.
Artists, writers, designers: let’s make broadsides together. Three workshops will run concurrently (and do a LOT of cross-pollination) during the week of July 30 – August 5 at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown (FAWC). We will play, explore…
Trophic Cascade by Camille T. Dungy Wesleyan University Press, 2018 ISBN 9780819577191 $13.90, purchase at bookshop.org Review by Jennifer Martelli In her poem, “Mother daughter hour,” Camille T. Dungy writes: +++++Callie is reading the book about language, and I am…
Friends, At the start of the new year, we like to take a moment and look back on the work we’ve published. This new year’s special draws from that process and from another print tradition. In the 19th century, it…
