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Jul 31

A Quiet Book, new from Stuart Kestenbaum & Susan Webster


 


We started this series when we were at the Tilting Artists in Residency Program on Fogo Island in Newfoundland in June 2022. Our partnership and collaborations began years before the making of this book. We started by making exquisite corpse drawings while waiting for food in restaurants, and moved on to more complex matters like raising two sons. From the start, whenever we have made our collaborative art pieces, we don’t actually work together in the same space. We work separately, passing work back and forth, without conversation. Perhaps because we’ve known each other for a long time, we find being in this unspoken place allows us to communicate differently. As in any making process, there is something beneath it or within it that we’re trying to get at (or it’s trying to get at us). In this back and forth between our studios, we are thrilled when we discover something unexpected—something that is more than the two of us—emerging.






Jul 30

And The Poet Said..., now available

Updated: Jul 31




Whether by accident or fate, as Hole in The Head Review wends its way through our fifth year, we go to print, though I use the we loosely. It’s really about 14 poets, revealed in depth by the poet, teacher and critic Michael Hettich, in his interviews for our online journal.

Here you have the thinking of these poets, some well-known award winners, some lesser- known, about their own writing and process, about their favorite poets, forms of poetry, “schools” of poetry, and about themselves and their lives. For any serious student of poetry—or just poetry-lover—And the Poet Said… is a trove of creative, intellectual, and artistic treasure.

We think it’s a little bit like being invited to be at home with the poets, listening from the kitchen, as they chat in the dining room about the inner workings of their poetry lives. Isn’t it what we’d all, secretly, like to do?

So, please join Michael as he deftly relates what the poet said….

 

- Bill Burtis, Associate Editor, Hole In The Head Review


Poets interviewed:

  • Mildred Barya

  • Cyrus Cassells

  • Jim Crenner

  • Jeff Davis

  • Denise Duhamel

  • Merrill Gilfillan

  • Marie Harris

  • Elizabeth Jacobson

  • Peter Johnson

  • Stephen Kuusisto

  • Sebastian Matthews

  • Eric Nelson

  • Joe Paddock

  • J.D. Whitney






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