Category Archives: artist

Hanging On, Finishing & Fixing

Posted on March 14, 2017 by metonymicalpen

This gallery contains 7 photos.


I see you, long ago Illustrator. Maybe things were pretty bleak then, too. Continue reading →

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The Goddard Blog: rawboned in the News

Posted on May 11, 2015 by metonymicalpen

Check out the Goddard Blog, here, for a great overview/interview/write up of our rawboned staff in its current configuration: Ginna Luck, who I think of as our soul-bearer of beauty and the aesthetic ideal. bevin, who is the persona of poetry–a … Continue reading →

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Erasure Time

Posted on April 20, 2015 by metonymicalpen

I’ve been erasing again. I am back on the Henry Van Dyke project pretty much every day, working steadily while also shaping the final projects in a short collection that began as my MFA thesis. On the whole, I have decided the … Continue reading →

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Did I Icon the Week Away?

Posted on March 23, 2015 by metonymicalpen

For the longest time,  a wooden egg I found at a remnants sale has sat on a shelf in my closet. I’ve had a confusing variety of ideas about what should cover the egg—everything from decoupage flowers to simple gradations … Continue reading →

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New Meto-news and Online Journal Love

Posted on July 28, 2014 by metonymicalpen

Spoke too soon! Another of my stories, “The Hummingbird Murder”, is currently live at theNewerYork. For the longest time I had been hanging around their venue, enjoying their unusual format and the way work is presented there. Only recently did … Continue reading →

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Ceremony

Posted on May 4, 2014 by metonymicalpen

Consider this conversation I had with my nine year old today: “I need some stuff so I can write a letter to my cousins.” “That’s a great idea. What do you need?” “Pajamas, purple ink pens, lined paper, a cup … Continue reading →

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Permission

Posted on March 29, 2014 by metonymicalpen

Have you ever heard sage warnings about how hard it is to make it in the arts, about how many dues you have to pay and how unlikely it is that you have the goods (read: talent) to pay them … Continue reading →

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While I Write, My Dog Waits for Me

Posted on March 25, 2012 by metonymicalpen

I had a lot of work to do this week. A deadline loomed beyond the sunny land of day like a wheel of sharks’ teeth waiting at the end of a seven day drift on a paper raft down a … Continue reading →

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Fire-Eating

Posted on January 23, 2012 by metonymicalpen

I had another of my interesting dreams. After a busy week of creative nonproductivity, buried under screamingly busy surface issues like traffic and work and grading and laundry that came out of the washer tied in mysteriously intricate knots, I … Continue reading →

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Love & Whiplash

Posted on January 15, 2012 by metonymicalpen

In 1934, the great Polish writer, Bruno Schulz—who has become a kind of art totem for me—wrote a letter to Julian Tuwim, a famous poet, thanking the man for promoting Schulz’s book, Cinnamon Shops (The Street of Crocodiles). While affectionately … Continue reading →

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