Workspace: Icky
August 28, 2014
This post is part of an effort to do online studio visits with every member of the Justseeds collective. I’ve asked people to describe their current studio set-up and also…
190: Curbstone Press, part II
August 25, 2014
Curbstone was not just an independent poetry press, but it’s core mission was political, to publish and bring awareness to culture as a tool of struggle in Latin America. One…
New issue of Peak Magazine out!
August 19, 2014
Canadian magazine the Peak has their September issue out and it’s articles are complimented by some artwork of Justseeds’ members. You can read the issue below.
People’s Climate March 4’x6′ prints: Production Photos part 2
August 18, 2014
More photos of the 4′ x 6′ prints that Jesse Purcell has been printing in his Toronto studio and that I have been helping to co-organize with the People’s Climate…
189: Curbstone Press, part I
August 18, 2014
I was in a used bookshop in Denver in 1995 and I was looking in the poetry section for some reason. I have no memory as to why, I had…
Lights, Trauma, Revelation
August 17, 2014
Inspired by the directorial cue—”Lights, camera, action!”—award-winning poets Cathy Linh Che, Jess X Chen and Paul Tran embark on a cross-country extravaganza to read from their first and upcoming books….
188: Foreign Languages Press, part III
August 11, 2014
Here’s my final entry in the Foreign Languages Press series (not that there aren’t plenty more books put out by FLP—thousands, actually). You can see the other posts HERE. I…
Great Ape Trafficking and the Ebola Outbreak
August 11, 2014
The excellent environmental news site Mongabay.com has a new journalism initiative, and it’s producing some fascinating work. A recent post examined the potential linkages between the trafficking of great apes…
August 6, 1945
August 6, 2014
“August 6th 1945 was the day that the US air force dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan, striking Hiroshima and killing up to 160,000 of the city’s inhabitants, most…
187: Foreign Languages Press, part II
August 4, 2014
One of the main things that Foreign Languages Press books have in common is covers that attempt to meld the pastoral (peasants and peasant society) with the industrial (and technological),…
Repost: An Open Letter to the NY Times: Race and the Reproductive Rights Movement
August 1, 2014
Feminist organizing around reproductive rights has been one of the most deeply important issues to me throughout the last 15 years. Many of my own artistic endeavors have centered on…