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Pushcart Prize Nominations 2022

This year’s Pushcart Prize Nominations are from our Haunted anthology, released in autumn/winter 2022.

Miles A.M. Collins-Sibley • “what if a girl fell asleep & woke up a boy”

Amanda Hope • “Ornithography”

Allison Wehrle • “Hypnic Jerk”

Yunkyo Moon-Kim • “Subsidance”

Kiyanna Hill • “garden mapping”

Stephanie Heit • “Elder Sister Encounter in Lake Michigan”

Congratulations to the nominees! Thank you for being part of this haunting anthology.

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Anita Olivia Koester's APPLES OR POMEGRANATES. Cover image also by Anita. Poetry 🖤

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Getting down to the business of printing. 80# stock, metallic copper ink. Right: some cards cut down from a few covers with clogged lettering. Left: stencil on a board with a trim sheet for lining up the print.

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White linocut tree prints trimmed into cards. Heavy linen-textured stock, white ink, black self-adhesive envelopes. Set of 12. thicketheart.etsy.com

Also available at Wooden Hill in Westwood.

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Left: lino block inked & locked up on Tiger Lily Press' Vandercook Proof Press. Right: first part of an edition of covers (first color of two), Hanco ink on black stock with a linen texture. Work in progress on Kristi Carter's DAUGHTER SHAMAN SINGS BLOOD ANTHEM.

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Proofing up some seasonal logo carves for Porkbelly & book lovers.

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Spending some time at Kentucky Fried Zine Fest & making some simple buttons thinking fondly on the 90s. & nerd things.

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Previewing Anita Olivia Koester’s APPLES OR POMEGRANATES with Anita’s photograph as cover.

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Makin books & growing eggplants. The books survived by the squirrels destroyed the garden.

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Letterpress with some vintage moveable type (for Maggie's chapbook cover) & also a fresh face in the studio. She's usually asleep while I'm making books. Sweet girl.

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Love Me Love My Belly's third issue. Cover art by MANDEM.

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More buttons & some letterpress packaging for same. Vintage wood type!

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More buttons (thicketheart.etsy.com): one for EKA's PRAY, PRAY, PRAY & some kitties for fun.

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Working on prints & handbound lit mags & pinback buttons for a friend's anthology, SCHOOLBOOKS & SORCERY.

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Left: all the titles due out this year! Almost finished releasing them. Just one micro (APPLES OR POMEGRANATES) & two chaps (DAUGHTER SHAMAN SINGS BLOOD ANTHEM & BLACKBIRD WHITETAIL REDHAND) to come, along with one anthology. 🖤 Right: Donna Vorreyer's THE GIRL detail.

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Letterpress monoprints with vintage wood type.

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Diving into multicolor letterpress with vintage type at Tiger Lily Press in Cincinnati. These covers (and poster) are for Porkbelly Press, a micro press also based in Cincinnati. All work done with vintage type (mostly wood) with a Vandercook proof press (except the moon which is a 2 color screenprint).