i found this letter-pressed coaster in the Minnesota Center for Book Arts gift shop with this great drawing by Georgia Lune.

text on the back reads:

se caso con
your breath
is like coffee
on my pants
it’s not in
the right place
it’s not
in my mouth
(xavier cavazos)

this weekend i am learning to appreciate minneapolis. tonight i went to a reading at mager’s and quinn bookstore and sampled some great wine and food as well as i heard some surprisingly impressive poetry. i read some books and manuscripts. i requested books from the library (to save time and hopefully parking money….the books will be waiting for me so i can scoop them up and take them home). i added some old favorites like Anne Carson and Jorie Graham, as well as some I don’t know as well like Thomas Transtromer and my friend, Amanda Nadelberg.

tomorrow: reading and writing at a newly found coffee shop.

tuesday: letters.

last weekend:

Love of my life

New notebook today which means new projects!

I left all my notebooks/journals/collated paper back in Michigan (quite unintentionally) so today I bought this lovely new notebook at the Minnesota Center for book arts. Their shop is great; it’s full of lovely stationary and prints and journals. Mine is very beautifully letterpress printed and I am so excited to put it to use. Who knows what will end up inside but I can’t wait to start filling it.