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Arteidolia Press 2024an intervened cento // un centón intervenidocreado por // created by: EL L¡BROTORIO [¡!] PR!NT RUN + friends.a rhizomatic patchwork. uncentered. interfluxing. alive. a mixing of what we heard, what we read, what we said. a way to see what our language was (shaped by). or rather...something. some thing.the "we" here, unfixed. though at the level of instigation, "we" meant (and still means) maryhope|whitehead|lee, claudia nuñez de ibieta, and ryan greene, the co-conspirators behind EL L¡BROTORIO [¡!] PR!NT RUN, a roving open-air book lab in the phoenix metro area which is a project of F*%K IF I KNOW//BOOKS.1 our instigation took the form of an invitation, and so naturally our "we" expanded.side by side bilingual in English and Spanish / / bilingüe lado a lado en español y inglés

Arteidolia Press 2024What happens when questioning how language is used and significance is given become the primary lens by which the poetic word decides to express itself? When fragmentation and cohesion are both equally at odds but also in harmony? When assurance and certainty avoid being present, however cannot help peeking through the cracks and letting themselves occasionally be known? The result may just be petal / transport. Mesiti's collection quickly becomes a sort of odd artifact that is unsure of itself and appears to hide behind what seems to be experiment but is also confident in the opportunity for poetic reflection it provides. Everything - from meaning to the space of the page itself - is up for grabs and intended to be explored."Reading James Mesiti, I am always overcome with the feeling that I have stumbled upon a trove of correspondence left on boulders, or under trees, gift-communiques between slightly mischievous nature spirits, fjallvættirscribbling to sjóvættir, which leave me feeling re-enchanted with the world." - Jay Kirk

Arteidolia Press 2024Sharon Lopez Mooney's "Cantata for a desert poet" is inspired by stories gifted to her by the Palestinian journalist, painter and poet Salam Khalili. "He laid his hope of sharing his truths in my hands, believing them the same struggles as so many affected by war." Mooney intertwines Salam's tellings with her own reflections into this cycle of poems that grew out a deep bond between the two poets."Salam had one of the biggest hearts and wisest minds of anyone I have met. He was a polymath, a peacemaker, an activist, a mathematician, a mystic and poet, a celebrated artist and an inspiration to many. He embodied and fostered the sweetness of profound love and brilliance. Salam and I became heart friends for life. We still are, and I honor you, Salam wherever you are now!"- Jack Kornfield, Buddhist teacher and author

Arteidolia Press 2023"Endings are at the forefront of Jason Montgomery's book of poetry, These Latest Apocalypses-ecological collapse, war, gentrification, addiction, aging. Sometimes it's just a suggestion of an end, such as "the fraying hem of [his] cut-off jeans" that deftly alludes to the prevailing sense that we are coming to a conclusion. It's there in the nonets, too, which balance precariously on a single last syllable. These LatestApocalypses is a timely book, and urgent, though still hopeful. He has given us more than a eulogy for humanity. "Rage is hope," Jason writes, after all. The reverberations of these incisive poems will stay with you long after you have finished reading." - Catherine Weiss, poetJason R. Montgomery, or JRM, is a Chicano/Indigenous Californian writer, painter, community artist and engagement artist from El Centro, California. In 2016, along with Poet Alexandra Woolner, and illustrator Jen Wagner, JRM founded Attack Bear Press in Easthampton, MA. Jason's work engages the cross-section of Chicano/Indigenous identity, cultural hybridization, post-colonial reconstruction, and political agency. His writing and visual art bridges the aesthetics and feel from the early cubist collage movement and the Russian abstract movement of the 1920s with living and historical Native/Indigenous Californian and Chicano art traditions to explore the Post-colonial narrative through active synthesis and guided (re)construction. JRM's work has appeared in Split Lip Magazine, Storm Cellar, Ilanot Review, Rust and Moth and other publications. Jason is one of 2021 Newell Flather Awards for Leadership in Public Art outstanding nominees and 2021-2023 Easthampton Poets Laureate. Jason is also the co-founder of the police abolition group "A Knee is Not Enough" (AKINE) in Easthampton, MA.

Arteidolia Press 2023Nicodemus Nicoludis' gorgeous debut"Multicene"meditates on eco-grief, the weather, and intimacy as loss. His poetry-which fledges itself alongside Lisa Robertson, George Oppen, Forrest Gander, and Richard Brautigan-feels like a tsunami washing away the shore. A copy of this book should be included in every climate doomsday kit and upon the shelf of any poet entering life after the Anthropocene. - Claire DonatoIn this very thoughtful and loving book, the speaker tells us: "I am dressed up / like a poet / And I am dreaming / of staying awake / for days to work," and we quickly discover this important work of the Multicene is nothing other than the interrogation "of deep time." The implicit politics shot through these gorgeous and multifaceted poems preform a kind of pyscho-ecology. That is to say, consciousness itself is equally a form of the "natural" world. Nicodemus Nicoludis is a highly gifted poet, the nuanced thoughtfulness in every line is hard-won and moving. It is a stunning debut. - Peter GizziIn "Multicene," Nicodemus Nicoludis' involute debut collection of poems, the Earth is not given to us to think about, but it is the Earth that has yielded this thinking itself, "the world in catastrophe humming out / morbid centos in patterns of weather." I love this realignment of poetic vision where "[every] night the Earth rewrites this poem" and "blooming nowtopias / spontaneously [graft] / free will onto / the side of a highway." From the strange hope of its opening strophes to its magnificent final long poem, "The Weather," "Multicene" tracks the vitality in the quickening spiral of climate disaster, never catastrophizing nor didactic but "[finding] something worth living for / if only to produce more living..." - Ted Dodson Nicodemus Nicoludis a poet, co-founder and managing editor of Archway Editions, and a PhD Candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center. His work has appeared in The Poetry Project Newsletter, Nat Brut, Small Orange Poetry Journal, the anthology Works & Days 2published by beautifuldays press, and elsewhere. He lives in Queens.

Arteidolia Press 2023The poetry of Stephanie Sears is redolent with rich evocations of both the natural and made made worlds. From Anaho Bay, Polynesia, to the Himalayas to the Adriatic Sea, she writes with a sensual love of place, in language as lush and abundant as the landscapes she inhabits. Her poems invite us to slow down, to look and see, to fully experience the world and its people, and remain open to the possibilities of love and beauty and desire. ~ David Updike Author of "Out on the Marsh" and "Old Girlfriends" The poems of Stephanie Sears transport us to strange and exotic places - islands in the Pacific, ancient houses in Umbria, fragrant meals in preparation. Once there, we discover "carmine and magenta entrails," "pink florets of frigate tuna," "celestial jellies supersonic eels," and elegant handstitched fuchsia leather gloves, "Never meant to be worn." The images in her poems are as sensuous to the eye and ear as they are to the tongue and touch. Allow these poems to accompany you on that long-distance trip you always promised yourself someday to take.--Tony Magistrale, University of Vermont, author of "More Fun Than Pretty"Stephanie V Sears is a French and American ethnologist, free-lance journalist, essayist and poet whose poetry has appeared in The Deronda Review, The Comstock Review, The Mystic Blue Review, The Big Windows Review, Indefinite Space, The Plum Tree Tavern, Literary Yard, Clementine Unbound, Anti Heroine Chic, DASH, The Dawn Treader, Dodging the Rain, Amethyst Review, The Non-Conformist Magazine, Red Orgre Review, The Headlight Review, and SORTES. among other. Her essays on wildlife, nature conversations, poetry and science, and urban issues have been published in The Montreal Review, Wildlifeextra, E, the environmental magazine, The Cresset, Zoomorphic, The Journal of Wild Culture, Ecohustler, Hawk&Handsaw, The London Grip. Her first book of poetry, The Strange Travels of Svinhilde Wilson was published by Adelaide Books in 2020.

Arteidolia Press 2023Nextness: Wordslabs by Randee Silv."Wordslabs are the concrete stepping stones that lead through the wild and open landscapes otherwise too unstable and overwhelming to traverse. They guide into many directions > wise > funny > absurd > essential > alarming, yet from where you are right now, there is surprisingly only one sure next step that will ground you in the chaos."Franziska Lamprecht, artist & writer

Arteidolia Press 2023Neil Flory writes to put disorder into order, strenuously using language that mirrors the thought processes of the mind: innovative punctuation; non-linear progression of ideas and images; linking and enjambment of words, lines, and immediate syntactical constituents; controlling and mixed metaphors, obliteration of the lines between poetry and prose and music. These are poems about authentic and unvarnished truth. This bizarrely, beautifully conceived and executed work will reward the patient reader with glimpses of otherwise unavailable knowledge and possibly perceptions of silver whisperings in the night. --Thomas Penn Johnson, author of "If Rainbows Promise Not In Vain"

Arteidolia Press 2022Poetry by maija mist"mist writes 'Listening to your own voice is distinct medicine,' and this book speaks distinctly as itself. It feels like weaving through the streets when no one is around, lighting fireworks with your friends then falling down high on a blanket, and leaving a party to sit alone outside. It's beautiful, and the poems' languageis like dream speak.They invite you to playin mystery for a while."- Lora Mathis, author of Instinct to Ruin & The Women Widowed to Themselves"Simultaneously celestial and grounded." - Erica Avey, editor of Spectra Poets.

Arteidolia Press 2022Bassist Ubadah McConner recounts the evolution and history of this home based cultural, educational, and music center in Pontiac, Michigan that embraced the revolutionary spirit of the 60s and 70s Black artistic renaissance through all night sessions of fire music, mutual support and conversation.

Arteidolia Press 2021What transforms sounds into music? Composer & improviser patrick brennan asks us in this series of essays to put aside what we ordinarily think music is and to reimagine a more inclusive, relational framework, an ecology of composing.. When people, especially musicians, talk about musical structure, they usually mean how sounds are organized, but there are other forces at play. Have you ever wondered what these might be?How do the textural weaves of human activity fit into all of this? If we are inseparable from musical sound, then what do we hear?What does it mean to compose from the inside out or the outside in? Do recordings reshape our conceptions? And, most compellingly, how can we, as listeners, listen? _______________ In a review of Ways & Sounds, Paul Acquaro has written that "brennan has thought deeply about the topics, has done his research, deftly quotes what prominent voices have said in the past, and explains his thinking behind what music is and means. "