Reminder to Mainers: Vote NO on Question 1 tomorrow, Tues Nov 4. Protect absentee voting for the 40% of Mainers who rely on it. If we miss this boat, it will be that much harder to remove Susan Collins from her senate seat. See ya at the polls. 🗳️📬

Speaking of members and the food drive, join us in Camden on November 8! Shanna will collect donations during the meeting (and members may also take what they need from the bins). See the UMVA event calendars for details on both! theumva.org

Artists Helping Artists @umva-members.bsky.social To my fellow artists in the union, I’ve organized a little drop-in-the-bucket grocery card/food drive. Donate *or request a card.* Details at link. ❤️ (Requests are open only to members at this time, but may expand.) theumva.org/event/artist...

Been painting quite a bit, after years of not (mostly printmaking). Feels good, but for some reason I only put that stuff on Instagram.

"How to Survive Confusion" from my latest book Hold Your Own (Copper Canyon Press 2024).

"White House" from my first book of poems: Houses (Horseless Press, 2015).

40 down. But it’s rainy & cold so they are being very slow to dry. [Linocut covers for a poetry chapbook coming from @bloofbooks.bsky.social] I love having art hanging from the rafters in here. But it’s also all over the walls, stacked on the shelves, etc. I need a big flat file in the worst way.

🚫👑 Here is my free hi-res poster design you might want to print up for some reason this week 🚫👑 www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/m4riy...

The nor’easter is blowing in. No rain yet but the Old Man’d Beard knows.

Framing stuff for my last 2 shows of 2025. Riverwalk will be at Craignair in Spruce Head, Maine. (🥂opening 11/19.) I love this beautiful custom frame, but I think I’ll cut a roomier mat window to show the signature line, or float mount to show the deckled edges? #Collagraph #PrintSky #Printmaking

Today I get to paint though. And later a fall foliage hike.

I was down for a full 36 hours with my c*vid shot, once again. Fever, chills, mostly sleeping. I keep hoping it will be easier each time, but it isn’t. Still worth it though. I’ve had c*vid once and it was mild. As someone with genetic kidney disease I can’t risk it. (Get it while you still can.)

I love Maine deeply and it took us about 20 years to figure out how to get here. I intend to live here for the remainder of my days. But also: Right now I fantasize daily about leaving the US

LTC insurer’s new game is “crediting” days we’ve paid out of pocket as elimination days, processing them before the elimination days I documented for them to count. This stalling is tactic called “the drag.” But I don’t quit & I keep tight notes, so you might as well just pay my momma now.

Yo Mainers, NO ON 1 next month. Between 30 and 42% of Mainers have used absentee ballots in recent elections. (Which is why this *already secure* option is being threatened with scaremonger language & utterly ridic “I was mailed a box of ballots by mistake” story. NO ON 1. Protect voting access.

Just got a book royalty check. $7.88 ✨

Ideally no things should cost money

It shouldn’t cost money to run for elected office G’night

The Medicare rep asked me if I was “using John Hancock as a metaphor or…?”

Graham Platner is real. Standing right next to me. The vibe is goooood.

“This is my city. This is my city.”

If you happen to be near Blue Hill #Maine this week, my friend Caroline Sulzer and I will be sharing poems & artwork at the Blue Hill Public Library on Thursday. Come say hi? We’re going to read some poetry, show some slides, and talk about how our poetic and artistic practices are interrelated. ✨

Can you believe anybody invites me to read my filth and nonsense inside library buildings no you’re so much smarter than that & i can tell by the number of weapons festively displayed on your holiday card

If the microplastics run for office maybe they’d be less poisonous & outstay their welcome on earth less aggressively than the ooze we lumpily continue to hold over own heads and ask please not to drip disgustingly down upon us especially not in the eyes think about it

Oh ok the country is a green greasy headache with a side of mulch-vomit smell arrow combo bomb stitch-ripped undersided frenemies murder larp got it

The reels default feed over there is driving me batshit

Heeeeyyyyy. I have a new book out. I’m doing an absolutely awful job telling anyone about it! The 50 #collage works in DEEP WHOOSH incorporate closed-caption sound effects. Because as a HoH poet/artist I’m fascinated by them both verbally & visually. + essay + 2 poems #VisualPoetry #ArtistBook

Trying to get my house mother-in-law clean

$10 it’s gonna be a prerecorded statement

Heeeeyyyyy. I have a new book out. I’m doing an absolutely awful job telling anyone about it! The 50 #collage works in DEEP WHOOSH incorporate closed-caption sound effects. Because as a HoH poet/artist I’m fascinated by them both verbally & visually. + essay + 2 poems #VisualPoetry #ArtistBook

Platner: No one cares that you pretend to be remorseful as you sell out to lobbyists. Symbolic opposition does not reopen hospitals. Weak condemnations do not bring back Roe V Wade. Maine deserves better than Susan Collins.

If you live in Maine, and even if you don’t, this was legitimately rousing. Graham Platner feels like someone who actually gives a shit. (He was born in my town, so new to a Wikipedia page they’re sure what year yet, lol.) We have mutuals. Everybody vouches.

I’m offering a graphic memoir course online this fall for New York’s School of Visual Arts. Starts 9/24. More info here: sva.edu/academics/co...

Another #collagraph. I also did one w/ chine collé which I thought I’d like better, but the 2 ink colors and a more neutral overall look are pleasing me more at the moment. I don’t know how many impressions I’ll get from these before they start to break down. (I’m not sealing them.) #printmaking

I keep forgetting to post over here. I sent an INKY newsletter on Thurs, and so far I’ve spent most of the long weekend in the studio, painting & making collagraphs, but also taking daily hikes. (My spouse’s family is coming later this week + work is about to get way busy. Gotta get it while I can!)

I napped most of August. Needed it.

From the weekend, got in a little studio time, catching up on orders and carving the cover for the next @bloofbooks.bsky.social chapbook. Hope to proof the block today. It will have some variable inking. Edition of 150. #printmaking #bookarts #bloofbooks #poetrychapbooks

Gaslit by my bedtime tea lol

Destroying a corporate memoir called The History of Equitable. (There’s a poemlet with this on Instgram.)

Need a tee that says PLZ DONT EXPECT MUCH

yes, it is true! with a very kind blurb from madison mc cartha! my first volume of visual/collage poetry in over a decade…ships to where you are, too, yes you!

I’ve been home 2 wks from the 3-wk emergency, but still feeling residual exhaustion. It’s not physical (I hiked 15 miles on Monhegan + daily whatevering). It’s like a dimmer or curtain across my mind. Starting to get frustrated, but trying to rest. I think I went so hard, 🧠 like g o s l o w.

Thunderstorm rolling through Midcoast & Downeast. We’ve needed it. Enjoy. ⛈️⛈️⛈️

in twoish weeks, i will be giving the first in-person poetry reading i have been able to do in seven years! folks in chicagolandia, if you know me well enough to contact me privately, i can also get you the address.

Coordinating Momma’s rideshares to appointments and back is like playing a crappy video game.

Home improvement projects take 7 times longer than the video, because they know where all the tools are.

My spouse told me a story I’d never heard, rarely possible after all these years. A church camp pastor challenged him to a tennis match. “I beat him, but then I got in trouble for wearing an Iron Maiden half shirt.” Guy threw a fit 😂

Random woman on this plane tried to tell me she was saving an overhead compartment spot for her husband (who had not boarded yet), and that I could not use it. Guess how that turned out.