"Relic of Place": Rikki Ducornet's painting on display

Artisans on Taylor in Port Townsend, WA, has a new show up: "Relic of Place" featuring the work of Rikki Ducornet, Linda Okazaki, and Helga Winter.  If you are anywhere near, do go see Ducornet gorgeous work, fabulist paintings marrying animal, vegetal, and mineral into surreal hybrdities.

post cards :: Lafayette a Lafayette -- the Dusie 5 chapbook with j/j hastain

Nous-zot Press is pleased to announce the publication of a new chapbook: post cards :: Lafayette a Lafayette, by Marthe Reed and j/j hastain.   A double-chapbook front-to-back, an exchange of verbo-visual postcards, the full-color images will be up at Dusie.org later this year.

William Allegrezza has a nice review up at p-ramblings.  

Copies available for $6.00 -- contact me at nouszotpress@gmail.com

Laura Goldstein responds to Gaze at Black Radish Blog

Laura Goldstein responds to Gaze -- "Confronted with images that reach us like missiles we have to conjure in order to confront" -- at Black Radish Blog.

Gaze is available from SPD.

Jackqueline Frost reponds to Gaze by Marthe Reed

Jackqueline Frost posts a cogent, nimble and very smart engagement with Gaze, just up at Black Radish Blog: http://blackradishblog.blogspot.com/

Poems at The Offending Adam

New work of mine up at The Offending Adam with a lovely introduction by Andrew Wessels. Two new poems -- please have a read.

Douglas A. Martin on Schaeppi's Sonja Sekula

Black Radish blog has a new response to Kathrin Schaeppi's Sonja Sekula: Grace in a cow's EYE : a memoir :

A canvas: If you think of the book as a work place (space), if you think of it as a way for stretching out

A canvas of: poems the poet-author/artist makes (marks)

A canvas from notebooks: words the responses to visual stimulus

(unlike Hannah Weiner, she here will not write on forehead)

-- Read more here.

New response to Sonja Sekula -- Grace in a cow's EYE : a memoir : at Black Radish Blog

Another Rebbecca Brown has written on Kathrin Schaeppi's first full-length collection at Black Radish Blog: Inside Outing: Rebbecca Brown responds to Kathrin Schaeppi’s Sonja Sekula – Grace in a cow’s EYE : a memoir :

Brown writes, "Bridged with voices, multiply me, tenor of unrequited light, articulating those spaces, evocative tongues dawning in a bird’s assembled nest, a very fine construction, bridged and arcing like crooked jaws grinding on the lonely cartography of an eager city start." Check it out.

Copies of Schaeppi's book are available from SDP.