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some beginnings + some endings
This book was a project I did for a graduate poetry workshop with Stephanie Young and 11 other amazing poets. For anyone who hasn’t ever been a workshop type situation, it’s an intense space sometimes. It’s the place you go to workshop and talk about your writing every week with people in what is supposed to be a safe place. Writing in this kind of formal capacity is new for … Continue reading
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new books at anthropologie this autumn.
Well the day has come. roughdrAftbooks have been spotted out in the world, once again with the help of good ole anthropologie who is including them as part of the autumn stationery assortment which is found online and in stores across the country starting, er —right now. These books are the product of a long hot summer of making right here in philadelphia with a lot of help from friends, … Continue reading
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old habits die hard
I made my first book in 1998 as a sketchbook for a trip I was very excited about taking to Kenya in Eastern Africa. I had this great idea to just “make my own” as a place to document everything I would see. I was then, as I am now, obsessed with documenting everything. I think only then I hadn’t really found the vocabulary yet that best suited the stories … Continue reading
