Expedition Press

Morning detritus on the stone after a late night printing (and whoa is 11pm late when you have a 7 month old 😳)

There is a bird and a stone
in your body. Your job is not
to kill the bird with the stone.

— Victoria Chang ()

From “Love Letters,” The Trees Witness Everything, .

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On selecting this text (by Myrna):

There are so many beautiful and useful poems in The Trees Witness Everything that it was quite hard to choose — I read it a few times before landing on these lines for this project. Why did they win out? Simply because they kept running through my head, and each time I wondered and wondered what they meant. They felt so true, and that if I could figure them out, then I’d know something more about myself. Something important. And so I printed them (with permission from Copper Canyon and Victoria!). I love working with words I don’t understand all the way because it means I can learn from them. And gosh I love learning.

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If you’re a poet reading this, we’d love to learn from your writing too! Expedition Press is open for submissions until Oct 31 for our broadside contest: www.expedition.press/contest.

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