The Matter Blog

The Matter Blog

 

 

So, Beth will love that I used her picture here.

The Matter Blog promises: Book reviews, events, poetry and pictures from your favorite non-profit. Brought to you by the staff and volunteers at Wolverine Farm Publishing’s Matter Bookstore.

Sure those things are there, but this is also portrait, a somewhat selective one of the Matter community that I am proud to be a member of.

Recently they put up excerpts from the volunteer handbook. The variety is great. The simple mundane bookstore tasks mixed in with the rare connections that can only exist between a bookseller’s clerk and a bookseeker.

For example:

6/22/09 Beutiful morning! Swept store, filled displays, sold an “irreverent” travel guide to a couple leaving for Paris! Re-separated books on red shelves near stairs into new and used, as Todd requested. Enjoy the lovely day! ~Katherine

The  reviews, short and long, are fun.

Most importantly if you don’t know the bookstore funds Matter’s publications so here’s to the hard working volunteers: you make it all happen.

Press Release: Matter 12

Wolverine Farm Publishing is proud to present the 12th issue of our flagship publication, Matter. The release party for Matter 12 Press will be June 19th, 2009 from 8pm to 11pm at The Bean Cycle/Matter Bookstore (144 N. College Avenue Fort Collins, CO 80524. The store will be closed for the event). Tickets for the release party are on sale now for $20, which includes a copy of the book, drinks, food, and entertainment including music by Danielle Ate the Sandwich, special guests, and readings by many of the contributors. Tickets are limited and this is our primary reason for being, so please support us!

The Press issue of Matter features a stunning array of new fiction, non-fiction, poetry and visual art in a different format from previous issues. This issue is a diverse mix of media topics, people pushing themselves to the edge, and poetry about evolution, entropy, and enlightenment.

a running bibliography of me

poems

“Trying to Read a Skyline” in Luna Negra.

“Field Guide to Edible Plants” in Matter 09: Fuel.

“The Mountain Before Him” in Permafrost. 2007, Volume 29.

“excerpts from Manual” in The Laurel Review. All poetry issue Spring 2009.

“xylem” and “a folly” in Matter 11: The Woods.

“Dead Letters” in Harpur Palate. Spring 2009.

“Bicycle Prayers” in Boneshaker: A Bicycle Almanac. Volume One: BA 42-100.

“Homing”, “Dear Pedro Borbon’s World Series Ring”, and “Dear Study Over Vitebsk” in Phoebe. Spring 2009.

“excerpts from The Jetty Poem” in Indefinite Space. 2009.

“Places of Articulation” in Letterbox. Issue 4.

prose

“Food Freedom”, “Book Review: Food Not Lawns”, “Book Review: The Small-Mart Revolution”, “Book Review: Lehman’s Non-Electric Catalog”, “Book Review: Pulse of the River”,  “Homegrown Spotlight: Happy Heart Farm” in The Great Ecstatic Reporter I.

“Smart, Beautiful, Sustainable”, “Interview: Kendol Gustafson at ReSource”, “Product Review: Fly Swatters and Chemical Trucks”, “The Food Co-op: So Local You’re Already There”, “Flight time and Fertilizer: Rethinking Animal Power”, “REC’s: The Myth and Magic”, “Film Review: Who Killed the Electric Car?” in The Great Ecstatic Reporter II.

“Tree Climbing in Fort Collins: A Lyric Guide” in Matter 11: The Woods. Reprinted in The Mountain Gazette.

“More than a Seed: Growing the Growing Project” on MatterDaily.org. Wednesday, 16 September 2009.

“Bicycological Diversity” in Boneshaker: A Bicycle Almanac. Volume Four: BA 42-400.