Posts filed under: Sammy’s Blog

Sammy’s Blog

Sammy’s Blog

Art is art

November 27, 2012 I signed a petition asking Gatorade to take flame retardant chemicals out of their products. Do you ever ask yourself just how crazy we have become? Later I heard a radio report detailing a new outbreak of... Read More

Lennon’s Poster

On the Book Arts list I came across a tiny little film by Nick Esdaile and Joe Fellows called Lennon’s Poster, a mini-documentary about the recreation of Pablo Fanque’s circus poster which inspired one of the songs on the Sgt.... Read More

frankenstorm, NOLA, publisher-puts-on-writer-hat

I read some poems at Kajun’s Pub in New Orleans. I was the warmup act for co-authors of the new wompus chapbook Super Poems, Chris Shipman and DeWitt Brinson, whose work I already loved and now I positively adore, so... Read More

“only poetry, no text books”

Silliman’s blog recently linked to a meditation by John Yau, a meditation on a meditation, you could call it, about Robert Kelly’s Line of Sight, a mysterious little pamphlet published in 1974 which had an intense impact on Yau. Yau begins... Read More

Broken, human

I lost a blog entry to the mysterious cyber-shadows. It was about David Foster Wallace. I won’t recreate it, it was a difficult entry to write, heavy with his loss on the occasion of the publication of D. T. Max’s... Read More

more hand binding

Gluing the text block, gluing on the cover. Different strokes…... Read More

Ohioana

These are some of the books we shipped to the Ohioana Library archive last week.... Read More

Bean Runner

Three poets read in Peekskill, including our own Susana H. Case, and Karren LaLonde Alenier:... Read More

the hand is quicker than the eye

book binding begins with needle & linen thread, stitching together a group of pages and don’t forget the knot!... Read More

A Reason To Survive

One in forty-five children in the U.S. live on the streets, in shelters, or in motels. ARTS (A Reason To Survive) is a San Diego nonprofit “dedicated to providing, supporting, and advocating for creative arts programs that heal, inspire, and... Read More