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I spent this past weekend in Detroit printing this beast of a poster at Signal Return, a pretty awesome letterpress shop. It’s pretty rare that I’m happy with a finished print, but this is definitely an exception. I worked with Lee Marchalonis who guided me through the printing process, she is an incredible letterpress ninja and I have SO much respect for her. The print was massive, roughly 18″x24″, so we had to develop some work arounds to accommodate it. It took a really long time (longer than I’ve ever taken to one project) but it was so worth it. Hopefully it’ll be available soon from the shop at Signal Return! Feeling so grateful to Signal Return for the opportunity and Lee for her expertise!

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Some pictures from a visit to Signal Return in Eastern Market, in Detroit. Thanks to Lee Marchalonis for showing us around! I had a chuckle at this shoutout to Jeffry Mitchell in a book printed there, whom I had the pleasure of meeting at this year’s NCECA. He is a kind person and his work reflects it

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Join us again at Signal Return at 7 pm on Tues. May 13th for transmission #4 of the Motor Signal Reading Series. Jeremy Schmall & Ann Marie Thornburg will be reading. As always, there will be plenty of wine on hand (with donations going to support Literary Detroit and Signal Return), and FREE broadsides with Jeremy & Ann Marie's work will be available. This reading is part of Lit in the Mitt, a month of free and low-cost events around the literary arts in Detroit (http://www.litinthemitt.org/). /// Jeremy Schmall is the author of "Jeremy Schmall & the Cult of Comfort" (X-ing) and "Open Correspondence from the Senator" (X-ing). His work has been published in The Laurel Review, PEN America, Columbia Poetry Review, and Forklift, OH. He lives in Hamtramck, MI.

Ann Marie Thornburg was born and raised in Michigan. She received an MFA in poetry from the University of Michigan's Helen Zell Writers' Program, where she was also a Zell Postgraduate Fellow in poetry. She now teaches in the English department at the University of Michigan. Her poetry appears in Boston Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, and harlequin creature. She was most recently the recipient of a 2013 Human-Animal Studies Fellowship from the Animals & Society Institute and Wesleyan University, and a 2013 grant from the Culture & Animals Foundation. She is curator of an exhibition on animals in poetry for the National Museum of Animals & Society, set to open in late 2015.

/// Motor Signal jolts the poetry reading out of its conventional form, inviting poets to invite poets who in turn invite the audience to play with language alongside them. Readers bring their poems & stories to life by mixing in impromptu performance, audience participation, communal composition, word games, interactive lessons, group storytelling, and more. The series assembles a new, dynamic literary collective with each event, unlocking words’ magic over the course of the evening—and beyond. Sponsored by Literary Detroit and housed in Signal Return’s gorgeous space, Motor Signal will serve as a new hub for a literary community in Detroit. http://literarydetroit.com/ http://litinthemitt.org/

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