Chenelle and I are producing a series of one acts by women. It’s all new work so please! Submit your stuff! And please! Repost on your Internet haunts! The deadline is December 15th. Our Facebook group has all the details.

Sent off the prints for the Greenville Presents show. Very pleased with how they turned out. I do best with juggling many projects, my attention span is terribly short, but invariably that means some never get finished and some slip through my fingers. The ones that slip away cause me a great deal of anxiety. I like faithfulness, I like knowing deeply. Even so, I am learning that not everything ought to be completed. It’s alright to let some things go. But it’s the discernment I am having difficulty with. I’m never sure when to be faithful and see something through and when to release. Maybe that’s a knowledge that comes with age and experience. For now my filter seems to function by piling it all on thick, seeing what has the strongest hold. I’m busy, and I like that.

I have a (very) short story in the new Kozyndan book, The Unknown Portraits. Their solo exhibition reception and book release will be on October 1 from 6-10 PM at the Magic Pony gallery in Toronto. If you are local you should go and tell me about it!

Also, the MP3 of my reading from Chelsea’s show the other night on KDVS is available if you click here. Chelsea also plays a heartbreaking version of “You Are My Sunshine” that I can’t get enough of. Over and over.

There are things happening and I am participating in them.
In order of appearance!

One.
Tonight my dear friend Chelsea Wolfe has an hour long set on KDVS, from 11 PM till midnight. Chelsea is a brilliant musician and the other half of The Wolf and The Rabbit, so you should listen regardless, but there will also be a recording of me reading a few sections from The Pecan Tree. You can stream online at KDVS.org.

Two.
This Saturday the San Francisco Center for the Book is having their annual Steamroller Printmaking event. It’s super fun and if you’re looking for a good overview of the possibilities of letterpress and printmaking, this is the event to attend. I’ll be volunteering, probably inking blocks and whatnot. Noon to 5 at 300 De Haro street in San Francisco.

Three.
Erica Schrag is opening a new gallery space, Greenville Presents, in Greenville, SC and I will have work in the inaugural show on October 16th. I dearly wish I could be there, so if you can attend, you should!

March is Small Press Month!

Check out the event section of the website, I bet there’s something awesome going on near you. And if there isn’t, well, why not organize your own?

Human Parts of Me Want to Eat the Flowers off of Trees will be for sale at Colette in Paris in conjunction with the Off Off Bowery exhibit, which opens today and runs until November 1st.

The copies of Human Parts of Me Want to Eat the Flowers off of Trees have arrived! You can purchase them from the am i human website. The book is $12, shipping is $3 in the United States and Canada and $5 overseas. You may send checks or cash - a total of $15 for domestic and Canadian orders and $17 international - to:

Jessalyn Wakefield
1628 Bellevue Avenue
Apartment B2
Seattle WA 98122

This is a collection of stories I’ve been working on over the past year, centering on themes of God and women.

Special thanks to everyone who preordered, your financial support has been invaluable

Your anger is a gift.

Raoul was in town last week (or the week before? I’m a mess these days!) and it was delightful to see him. I asked him a couple of months ago if he would be interested in allowing me to print a chapbook of his poetry. He sweetly agreed. He tells me that that the work is nearing completion and I’m hoping to have the book done by the end of the year, but we’ll see! I don’t want to rush it and I’m currently studio-less.

I’ve been packing like mad and ran across two business cards from The Regional Assembly of Text that I picked up when I went to visit Raoul earlier in the summer. This little shop was so charming! They have an amazing zine and self published book collection. My favorite piece was an original handmade copy of Jordan Crane’s The Last Lonely Saturday. But I adored their button-making station. You can type up your own buttons on their typewriter, or color them with pencils and markers, and you see all those drawers on the front page? I was over the moon when the woman helping me opened a drawer and just pulled out the button maker and all the supplies. It seemed almost wizardly. I would love to know what wonders are hiding in the rest of the cabinet. If you’re ever in Vancouver you should absolutely add this place to your list of things to do.

Also, the San Francisco Center for the Book’s steamroller print making event is next week. Rich and I have volunteered the past two years as part of the inky hands crew (mixing, application and clean up). I’m sad to be missing out this time around, it’s always been a blast. Last year we also participated by carving smaller linoleum blocks which were printed with the steam roller and offered for sale as part of the fundraiser. don’t go small god was my contribution. If you’re in the Bay Area I highly recommend this event.

Rich inking in 2006

Lizzie sweetly invited me to the Portland Zine Symposium this past weekend. She’s been volunteering at ZAPP this summer and they had an extra bed at their hotel for her, so away we went.

I’ve been out of the zine loop for what feels like ages. Since taking up letterpress I’ve been much more focused on fine printing than I have on the DIY scene. The last few months, though, I’ve been feeling the itch to do zine making again, and with modern communities* talking about starting up a quarterly publication, PDX was a welcome inspiration.

Despite not being connected with the scene for a couple of years, I was pleasantly surprised to run into a few names that I remembered. I used to get Lady Pajama’s per zine and I got to met her for the first time. LP happened to be tabling with Courtney Blazon, who’s art is currently up at Victrola, where Lizzie works. Theo Ellsworth was also there. I’m crazy about his art and was delighted to hear that he has a book forth coming. There were several zines that I didn’t follow but knew by title and was pleased to put a name with a face, and of course I discovered some new gems. There was a farmer’s market happening behind the building and we both purchased poems from Luis Maestre (Or maybe Luim Tremases? His business card has both names!).

Also, a young lady asked if she could photograph my rat tail for her blog, RAT TAIL DREAMS.

Lizzie after a long day of zines.

*Check out our sister journal, WWR (or at least it should). There’s a passel of new interviews up.