{"product_id":"walks-weathers-publishing-experiments-2015-2019-9798989096220","title":"Walks \u0026 Weathers: Publishing Experiments 2015-2019","description":"\u003cp\u003eAfter reading William Wordsworth's autobiographical poem, \"The Prelude,\" in her PhD program, poet and publisher MC Hyland became fascinated with the\u003cbr\u003eimportance of walking with friends in Wordsworth's poetry--and with the ways that writing for his friend, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, unlocked Wordsworth's most powerful\u003cbr\u003evoice. She set out on a poetic research project, walking and writing with friends and strangers from the banks of the Mississippi River to the streets of Manhattan, Cambridge University, and a fjord in western Norway.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlong the way she walked with poets Sarah Fox, Fred Schmalz, Stephanie Anderson, Holly Corfield-Carr, Patrick Cabello Hansel, Anh-Hoa Thi Nguyen, Ru Puro, Brian Teare, Christy Davids, Ted Rees, Jared Stanley;playwright Deborah Stein; scholars David\u003cbr\u003eHobbs, Maria Damon, and Tara Menon; family members; visual artists and curators; archivists; and others. After each walk, she wrote a poem for her co-walker or\u003cbr\u003ewalkers--each poem both a letter and a continuation of the conversation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book collects these \"walking poems,\" written between 2015 and 2018 and\u003cbr\u003eoriginally published in emails and in small handmade books, along with the text of a\u003cbr\u003esubsequent writing project and artist's book, inspired by the poet Bernadette Mayer's\u003cbr\u003esuggestion to keep a notebook of \"elaborations on weather.\" The \"weather poems\" in\u003cbr\u003ethis book record weathers both personal and meteorological, from Brooklyn, New York\u003cbr\u003eand Gloucester, MA in the years 2017-2019.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHyland, MC:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eMC Hyland (she\/they) is the founding editor of DoubleCross Press, a poetry micropress. She is the author of over a dozen poetry chapbooks\/artist books and two previous full-length books of poems, \u003ci\u003eTHE END\u003c\/i\u003e (Sidebrow 2019) and \u003ci\u003eNeveragainland\u003c\/i\u003e (Lowbrow Press 2010), as well as a book of short essays, \u003ci\u003eThe Dead and the Living and the Bridge\u003c\/i\u003e (Meekling Press 2025). Holding MFAs in book arts and creative writing from the University of Alabama and a PhD in English literature from NYU, MC is a teacher, scholar, artist, and arts administrator, and lives in St. Paul, MN with her partner, Jeff, and cat, Dakota.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Beauty School Editions LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51690683040018,"sku":"9798989096220","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2645e8fc-9a18-46d0-8247-d3a07065c261.jpg?v=1761743453","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/walks-weathers-publishing-experiments-2015-2019-9798989096220","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}