My letterpress book UNCLOSE THE DOOR was selected to be included in the show Heart & Hands:

Unclose the Door in Heart & Hands 2013 Exhibition
April 8 - May 31, 2013
Love Library, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln, NE

Unclose the Door in Heart & Hands 2013 Exhibition
October 11 - November 14, 2013
Criss Library, University of Nebraska-Omaha
Omaha, Nebraska

Hearts and Hands will include: Artists’ Books | Altered Books | Collaborations | Digitally Printed Books | Fine Press Editions | One-of-a-Kind Books |Sculptural Book Objects.

Unclose the Door was recently in the news. Bradley’s “In the Spotlight” piece notes:

A new collection of poems about the life of an Illinois-born suffragist carries the handiwork of Bradley students…Wiseman’s poems are based around the life and career of Matilda Fletcher, a 19th-century suffragist and distant ancestor of the author. Fletcher, a writer and lecturer who lived in the Midwest, traveled the country advocating for the women’s rights movement and shared the stage with noted feminists such as Susan B. Anthony.

The Peoria Journal Star notes:

…the book and the written word are still honored as the core purpose of the printing press.

and from the press’s editor Robert Rowe:

“There’s something deeply satisfying about making a finely crafted object,” said Rowe.

Unclose the Door and my broadside “The Pomegranate” was featured at the Gold Quoin Press table at the Mission Creek Festival in Iowa City.

Also, Les Femmes Folles reviewed the anthology Women Write Resistance: Poets Resist Gender Violence. It’s definitely worth quoting in full:

Poetry, like visual art, illuminates with the potential of societal change. Judy Chicago’s 2006 sculpture, “Snake Arm”—a raised a fist coiled by a golden snake—calls to mind fertility and connection while also questioning aggression and war. Her series, “The Holocaust Project” (1985-93) brought the darkened tragedy of the Holocaust’s violent “medical experiments” and sexual violation of women to attention. Faith Ringgold’s “The Flag is Bleeding #2,” (1973), a piece on violence against women, offers the American flag, a symbol for militarism and racial violence, and a stoic black mother who attempts to protect her children, while she, the children, and the flag bleed. These artistsdeal with violence and political issues head-on, garnering revolutionary enlightenment and societal change. Each of the diverse, enthralling poems in Wiseman’s Women Write Resistance is a work of art, revealing hope and cultural transformation. Exhilarating and groundbreaking, Women Write Resistance combines true heart-wrenching stories of gender abuse with revelatory “sassing” language demanding meaningful conversation on the universal issue and, hopefully, change. ~Sally Deskins, founding editor of Les Femmes Folles, journal of women in art

Wow! Thank you for this wonderful press!

Oh, and if you haven’t heard, there’s WWR events taking place in the next few weeks in NYC, Philly, and in Nebraska. I hope to see you there!