“fairymouse” digital painting by Angela Tannehill-Caldwell I’m just sitting on my back deck looking out at my serene japanese maples and listening to the birds of dusk have their evening conversations. I’m remembering how I used to do stuff. Creative stuff. Friend stuff. Literary stuff. Stuff that filled my days. Stuff to look forward to.…
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Book cover design is an art form that goes through an evolution of starts, stops, and redirects. To any professional book designer, this challenge is what sparks the drive to create a cover design that both makes the author proud, and also stands out among other books in the same genre. My goal as a…
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Someone told me once that books represent our intellectual history, and that is now my argument for why I can never get rid of my books. That worn, frayed red book of contemporary poems from college 1990 (that weighs 5 lbs.)? Yeah. Keeping it. That is where I discovered Gerald Stern, and Donald Hall, and…
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