I’m pretty sure this is the twentieth year in a row I have done NaPoWriMo alongside Maureen and others. I just went back to my old blogspot to check, and yep, April 2005. Amazing. I have lost count of how
A union of artists
Here’s a brochure I designed for the Union of Maine Visual Artists, and I’ve also been on the committee for a new website that is being designed. It’s all gonna look quite spiffy, I think, and be a much better
Links
SHOPLatest Book: Creature Sounds FadeArt shop: Hi Water Press at Bloof Books SOCIALInstagram: instagram.com/hiwaterpressThreads: threads.net/@hiwaterpressBluesky: @shannacompton.bsky.socialBook Design: shannacompton.myportfolio.com I am no longer using Facebook or Twitter, though I have parked shell accounts.Please find me at one of these other spots.
Midwinter Constellation
I’m excited and honored to be part of this stellar collaborative book, forthcoming next month (January 2022) from Black Lawrence Press. The spark was Becca Klaver’s, and the experience remains among my favorite being-a-poet-among-poets happenings to date, writing through a
New perspective
Another review of (CREATURE SOUNDS FADE)!
“In a collection that is two parts feral eco-poetry, and one part stingingly personal reflection, New Jersey writer Shanna Compton uses re-engineered punctuation as the soundtrack to her crucial work. Here, the woods and the animals do not merely appear
First review of (CREATURE SOUNDS FADE)!
“The latest title from Lambertville, New Jersey poet, artist and book designer Shanna Compton is (Creature Sounds Fade) (Black Lawrence Press, 2020), a collection of poems predominantly built of single-page lyric narrative sketch-works, as multiple of her poems give the
(CREATURE SOUNDS FADE) is here!
The official publication date is now November 15, but copies are back from the printer and Black Lawrence has started shipping out the preorders! I’m thinking of some alternate ways to virtually celebrate, since I can’t do the reading trips
Closed Caption collage series
I’m working on a series of 50 collages using found imagery and closed-caption sound effects, which will be going to the first 50 people to preorder (CREATURE SOUNDS FADE) from Black Lawrence. A visual take on the method behind many