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Day 2 at Museum of Contemporary Craft: Samiya Bashir print from her poem Coronagraphy

Day one: Residency at Museum of Contemporary Craft. Samiya Bashir print edition of 10. Available for sale at the Shop

John Henry Tweet: Words used to suppress dissent

Dress rehearsal: Laws of the Blackbody Samiya Bashir poems as part of Poetry Press Week

Samiya Bashir's poetry is in the house. Prepping for @poetrypressweek performance with Samiya and her talented players at Disjecta in Portland December 5 from 7-9. 

home from DO Lectures USA. sorting through johnhenrytweets prints and a fair amount of laundry. unpacking takes a long time. inspired by Maria Popova of Brain Pickings, Adele Stafford of Voices of Industry and Rich Hill of Ticla and the frisbee styling of Happy Brother Chipper Bro Bell. A host of quiet voices, great laughter and crushy crushes. delicious food by Eduardo Garcia and his merry pranksters and Campovida's enduring landscape. 

how a certain 6 year old describes the experience of riding without training wheels. what is your strange joy?

happy may day!

maps. scale. cycles. wishes are for the world. become a tree dreamer www.tree-dreams.org

Rest in peace, Vern.             

great, smart read by Namita Wiggers movingthings. http://brooklynrail.org/t/9565

ILLAHEE LECTURE SERIES: Marina Zurkow spoke last night about her latest project in development “Sampan Super Chai,” which is a collaboration with Portland-based The Last Attempt at Greatness. The new project is an examination of Portland’s terroir: collecting, analyzing, and processing the substrate, waters, biota and anthropogenic artifacts of the Willamette and Columbia rivers. Dark Ecology refers to the intersection of human-made systems with other systems.

Peter Korn spoke about his book: "Why We Make Things and Why it Matters: The Education of a Craftsman" @craftmuseum. 

Friday night, John Henry set up at the Portland Art Museum alongside  "Feast and Famine" , a show curated by Mary Weaver Chapin. Artist Michelle Swinehart created an event that brought together the show's curator, Chef Cory Shreiber, and a group of artists to discuss food — particularly the potato — with a table full of museum visitors. We distilled a series of broadsides from the event  and had a chance to taste Cory's delicious Potatoes Anna and Potato Salad.

wooden type, furniture, gamblin pnca watershed grey ink, brayer, apron, press…think we are ready to turn a corner at PAM into our studio for the evening. john henry is printing as part of Feast and Famine: An Eating Experience tonight only — we will be set up just outside of the sold out event. It is $5 after 5 tonight at the Museum, come by!

My Tree Dreams pal has returned from a journey  to South Africa. She described violence meets beauty and her phrase has been rolling around in my head ever since.

one glorious poet. two cases of wooden type. a portable proofing press. ink. brayer. a little sweat and the help of an iPhone. @johnhenrytweets still standing. thanks RACC, PNCA & MoCC and thank you Joy Harjo