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The 8th Annual Members’ Show—Featured Artist

Personal & Generic by Rachelle Toarmino, 2016

Let’s take a look at another interpretation of a book featured in our 8th Annual Members’ Show right here at the WNY Book Arts Center. 

This hand sewn chap book is the first of Rachelle Toarmino featuring a letter pressed cover and a series of her visual poems. 

Rachelle Toarmino is a contributor at PressBoardPress and certainly leads a busy life as a writer, K-8 Spanish teacher, bookstore clerk at Talking Leaves Books, and an ESL editor at Karibu News.

WNYBAC is thrilled to display her beautifully written words and artistic vision as part of this year’s Members’ Show. 

Personal & Generic is available for purchase on PressBoardPress.com. Cover design and book layout by Patrick Reidy. Photographs by Joel Brenden. Learn more about PressBoardPress based right here in Buffalo, NY by visiting their website.

My brain is still like the open can of tecate on my fire escape I drink more yerba mate so I can stay awake throughout the day Sometimes I lay on Andrew’s cold kitchen floor and write about every guy I’d like to screw while he does the dishes My entire life is comprised of pink lemonade and painkillers Noncommittal beards who are just fillers I will kiss every cashier in plaid available on Valencia street and not be completely satisfied with anybody that I meet I am magnetized to always being the person who loves more than they are loved back and focuses more on the sweet than the bitter while drowning herself in dark liquor and figuring out how to get high quicker

nu poems of mine have surfaced @ pressboardpress (!!!)

http://pressboardpress.com/2012/03/12/four-poems-by-neon-glittery-2/

http://pressboardpress.com/2012/03/12/four-poems-by-neon-glittery-2/

http://pressboardpress.com/2012/03/12/four-poems-by-neon-glittery-2/

http://pressboardpress.com/2012/03/12/four-poems-by-neon-glittery-2/

4 of my poems have [ [ [ [ [ s u r f a c e d ] ] ] ] ] at pressboardpress

thanx michael meow koh bb