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A collection of book and fibre arts, art and poetry curated by Jessica Smith, librarian, author of Organic Furniture Cellar and Life-List and Editor of Foursquare magazine.

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New review of How to Know the Flowers

New review of How to Know the Flowers

By Kim Jacobs-Beck, up at Crab Creek Review.

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How to Know the Flowers

How to Know the Flowers

How to Know the Flowers is now available at Small Press Distribution!

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How to Know the Flowers

How to Know the Flowers

How to Know the Flowers, my third book, is forthcoming from Veliz Books and now listed on its website, along with the cover and blurbs!

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Recent Book Reviews: Don Mee Choi and Joanne Kyger

Recent Book Reviews: Don Mee Choi and Joanne Kyger

On Don Mee Choi’s Hardly War

On Joanne Kyger’s On Time, There You Are, and Japan and India Journals

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How to Know the Flowers

How to Know the Flowers

I’m thrilled to announce that my recent manuscript, How to Know the Flowers, was accepted for publication by Veliz Books.

I wrote How to Know the Flowersin the spring of 2017. It’s about sexual harassment, grief, and repairing oneself through art (in this case, natural dyeing) and female friendship. It was a finalist for publication in the 2017 Sundress Publications and Nightboat Books reading…

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Upcoming Events

I will be at the New Orleans Poetry Festival next week, where I will be hosting the Coven/Bloof Reading, celebrating the release of Counter-Desecration: A Glossary for Writing in the Anthropocene and the life of Black Radish Books editor Marthe Reed, and participating in the “Experiments in Intimacy: Visual Poetics of Femme Friendship” panel, among other events. In early May, I will be in…

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I have a short essay on zines and teen librarianship in Poet-Librarians in the Library of Babel (eds. Sommer Browning and Shannon Tharpe) and an entry on teeth in Counter-Desecration: A Glossary for Writing within the Anthropocene (eds. Linda Russo and Marthe Reed). Both of these volumes experiment with the way that we write scholarly criticism, and I am thrilled to be involved in both of these academic-creative projects.

  Two new books I have a short essay on zines and teen librarianship in Poet-Librarians in the Library of Babel…

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Portfolio site I made a portfolio website using Adobe's MyPortfolio to show my print design work and some of the book arts education I've done, mostly at Indian Springs School, but now also at the Vestavia Hills Library in the Forest.

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Miami University MFA

I have joined the low-residency MFA program at Miami University, where Hoa Nguyen and Laura Van Prooyen are the poetry mentors.  These poets join the experimental-minded poetry faculty in Miami’s residential MFA program, Keith Tuma, Cathy Wagner, and cris cheek for an intimate poetics program well-versed in the history of experimental poetry and performance.

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Glazed Glitter named Semifinalist for 2017 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize

Glazed Glitter named Semifinalist for 2017 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize

Glazed Glitter is among the semifinalists for Tarpaulin Sky’s 2017 Book Prize. Glazed Glitter is an erasure text written after the 2016 election and is erased with gold glitter. Excerpts from and about Glazed Glitter were previously published in Radio 11.8.16 (Essay Press #83) and PoetsArtists (Formation, #80).

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The Lover is Absent

The Lover is Absent

new from above/ground press: The Lover is Absent, by Jessica Smith The Lover is Absent Jessica Smith $5 published in Ottawa by above/ground press April 2017 a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy Jessica Smith, Founding Editor of Foursquare and name magazines and Coven Press, serves as the Librarian for Indian Springs School, where she curates the Indian Springs School Visiting Writers…

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Recent Publications Dec '16-Jan '17

Recent Publications Dec ’16-Jan ’17

“4 November 2016” from The Daybooks at Dusie Advent Calendar (Dec. 15) “5 June 2016” from The Daybooks at Open Letters Monthly  (Feb. 1) Excerpts from two recent visual poetry projects, Glazed Glitter and Reading the Illegible, in Poets & Artists Issue 80: Formation, which corresponded with the Formation show at the Bernarducci Meisel Gallery. You can buy originals from the GG and RTI sets at the…

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The .pdf version of TRAUMA MOUTH is now up at Dusie, alongside a huge collection of other chapbooks from Kollectiv 8, edited by rob mclennan and Susana Gardner.

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Life-List makes the SPD bestsellers list for September! 

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Life-List SPD Best-seller! Life-List made the Small Press Distribution bestseller list for July alongside these other amazing books of poetry!

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Dream House

Partly an archive of poems about bodies and geographical space, and partly a Calvino-esque trip through the architecture of dreams (inspired partly by the visual art of Noah Saterstrom), Dream House investigates the fantasy of “home.” Each chapter has its own personality, and most have been previously published independently. “The Fortune Teller” layers lives and memories and traumatic…

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Two Reviews of Life-List

Linda Russo on Life-List‘s “fierce sense of attentiveness” over at Jacket 2 as part of her beautiful series of critical essays on ecopoetics. And on his blog, rob mclennan writes: Part of what is remarkable about Smith’s work is her use of fragment and space, allowing the poems such a breadth of multiple readings and meanings, even while allowing a strong intuitive narrative grounding. There is…

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