HAIKU PHOTO ESSAY: TIM STALEY – RAILROAD CANYON

1 The river catches the moon like a fly ball. 2 After the fire Ponderosa thrive and barbed wire. 3 Two years after the fire flowers so thick dogs disappear. 4 Synesthesia is when gnats land in your eye and you sneeze. 5 American Dream: butterfly turns to spiky black caterpillar. 6 The creak is […]

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A DAY IN THE LIFE OF GRANDMA MOSES PRESS

    

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF GRANDMA MOSES PRESS

July 2, 2015

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Grandma Moses Press is an small independent poetry publisher in Las Cruces, New Mexico.

 

 

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Grandma Moses Press founder, Tim Staley, chops out chapbooks before the reading.

 

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After all the book’s insides are cut out, the covers are chopped to size.

 

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The final steps are folding, stapling, and numbering each book by hand. This is the press’ newest release, a debut collection of poems by Antoinette Nena Villamil.

 

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A line of poetry is stretched from Las Cruces to Albuquerque.

 

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Minutes before the reading begins.
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The Beatlick Sisters open with “Can You Breathe?”

 

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Joaquin Fore delivers his Science Fiction Gumshoe poems.

 

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Katrina Guarascio slams into high gear. She will be competing this year at the National Poetry Slam in Oakland, California.

 

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Jon Huerta, down from Outlaw Mountain, closes the evening with four poems from his Grandma Moses Press release: Posole with Benefits.

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