PREORDER SPECIAL: New book! ‘Unsleep’s Village’ will be released in early April! Until April 1, you can purchase a copy for $10. $2 off the cover price and includes shipping (or local hand delivery). PayPal $10 to rabbitlight at gmail dot com. Bloggers & reviewers! Email me your mailing address for a free review copy.

Quite fond of this one the Wolf and I did last night:

PRIMAL//CARNAL from CHELSEA WOLFE on Vimeo.

I’m nearly finished with a new book that I hope to have released no later than April. Get stoked.

The Unkown Portraits is available from Kozyndan’s website, now.

It seems as though I have done something else lately. But I can’t remember. This is a quiet, generative time.

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!

Chelsea Wolfe and I made a video of a short piece I wrote last month, Animus Dreams (you can download the text from the Writing section), just finished it up last night. Naomi from Agent Ribbons helped us out with the score. Pleased as punch about this, Chelsea did a fantastic job.

ANIMUS DREAMS: THE WOLF AND THE RABBIT from chelsea wolfe on Vimeo.

I have been deeply grieving Craig Arnold’s death and have consequently been mute. I don’t think I can elaborate any more than that.

For now, here’s a write up on the Bitch magazine blog about Lindsey Markel and the upcoming You Are Among Friends book, in which I have a contribution. If you are interested in donating to Lindsey’s amazing and important project, you can do so at her Kickstarter page.

New broadside!

Spent the last week printing in San Francisco. It felt fantastic to print my own work, it had been too long.

Werewolf II

Two poems. Handset and printed letterpress. Two color with blind print. Constructed with sheet music, maps, dress pattern material, gold leaf, carnivore teeth and lace. $25 (+$3 shipping). You can order off the Prints page. To send checks or cash, email jessalyn dot wakefield at gmail dot com first. XOXO.

My sincere apologies to everyone who ordered IS, IS! My unexpected flight to California has put a bit of a cramp on my production schedule. But don’t for a minute believe I have forgotten your patronage, oh no, my darlings, oh no, you tiny books are coming just as soon as I am able!

And a real update soon? Is it possible? Let’s hope for my sake that it is is is.