Following up on connections made at last month's Vancouver Art Book Fair, Juan Cisneros Neumann's Grapes of Steinbeck was exchanged (in person!) for a few RML and LFP titles (Carlos Colín, Tierra y Libertad / Little México, Gabriela Galíndez, Notas …
Mail Art
Studio notes on a camera obscura
Earlier this month a beautifully illustrated folded flyer arrived in the mail box. Without adhesives or binding, this piece of mail art could be described as a postcard, a booklet or a structure that mimics, in its unfolding, a visit to Brenna …
Exchanging Files at the Fair
This year's Vancouver Art Book Fair that just ended, offered alternatives to commercial circulation of physical objects that is typical in this vendor-style event. As a proponent of free digital and mail art book exchanges, RML noted some …
Skywoman’s Medicine
September 30, 2021 – Canada’s first “National Day of Truth and Reconciliation” It is good to remember that the original woman was herself an immigrant. She fell a long way from her home in Skyworld, leaving behind all who knew her and who held …
On Loss: Two Poems from Ghana
The poems included in On Loss describe the subjective impact on the writers of Ghanaian patterns of migration. In the first poem, A.B. Godfreed refuses to carry within herself "so many false divisions" of dual Asante and British identities. The …