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| Poe Tarot design |
It's been a week of horror movie screenings (one so bad it's good, and the other bad, just bad.) Of fun musicals in gorgeous and ornate theaters awash in pink and violet light. Of spending the latter part of the week catching up on work that I did not do at the beginning (including two 12 hour writing days that made my eyes bleary and exhausted). In the mail some new dresses, including one for an out-of-town wedding next week, and another just to celebrate summer. Also crochet totes (well, two seems excessive but I wanted a cream and a black one.) Somehow it is June, which seems impossible to be closing in on the middle of a year that just started.
Also in the mail, a stack of new journals that can now be found in the shop with a deer maiden theme and blank pages inside. Yesterday, freed from writing obligations, I spent the morning and better part of the rainy and grey afternoon eating my way through multiple croissants J had sneakily ordered for delivery from our favorite bakery and working on a set of Poe-inspired tarot images that may become a whole series, possibly designs for a whole deck (or at least the major arcana.) I like the way they are turning out and have been employing a mix of collaged and AI bits for them.
I am still waffling on where to go next, though I suspect the current series of poems I've been working on, broken places, may still have a couple of poems to be squeezed out, unruly and wriggling. I had a spate of daily writing mid-May, which was upset by the hurriedness of this past week, so will be getting back to it this week. These will likely form a section in RUINPORN, though the final shape of that books changes from month to month, as well as my release plans for it, which, if all goes well, may be later in the fall. The Facebooks reminded me today that SEX & VIOLENCE came out exactly four years ago (albeit in the midst of covid lockdowns and downtown practically on fire from rioting.) So I will also be sharing some bits from that over on Instagram this week.
I did finally decide on the zine project coming your way in June--my strange little series of poems about humans and technology, technogrotesque with its accompanying collages, which I will be laying out this week. I'm in the midst of final corrections on a bunch of chaps that will be dropping as well, as well as more responses, more straggling layouts, and sorting the 2024 submissions, which have started trickling in today for the open reading period. (I likely won't get to these til late in the summer, but they are there and ready to start.) Meanwhile I am still dealing with which books will make the final line up for this fall.
This week brings plans for some more late-night movies at the Logan (this, which I haven't seen) and cocktails with a friend downtown. Summer feels like the city is opening up properly (as the traffic we witnessed this week attests.)
