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I hope nobody minds if I toot my own horn a little.

The Summer 2008 issue of Rattle, Poetry for the 21st Century, is just out. This handsome issue has a special 60-page full-color section devoted to Visual Poetry. I’m honored that three of my pieces from my series called Readings are included.

In these pieces I combine poetry and images by working on the pages of old books, mostly with watercolors and inks, carving poems from the text that I find there. Here’s a couple example. They're not in Rattle, but they can give you an idea of what I’m doing.





This is a print publication, but you can see details of this issue on the Rattle website,
http://www.rattle.com/vispo.htm

My work is not available on the website now, but may turn up sometime in the future as tthey add 5 poems from their back issues each week. The Visual Poetry issue will start to go online in December.

I'm thrilled.

Ruth... that looks absolutely amazing. Nice work!! And congrats on the publication. xoxo C

Thanks, Charissa. It's really been fun. A whole new experience working so small, too.

Thank you, Donald. Do you know Rattle? It's published in LA.

R

Those are fun Ruth and make me smile!!Congradulations on the publication!!

Very cool, Ruth!
But, what's this about killing turtles? That's a very troubling line!

Thanks Jackie, Willie and KD. Yeah, I hope they don't bust me turtleicide.

I love it!! So visually pretty, and I love found words more than any other kind of found art. I've done some similar things but never thought to call them poetry. (Though I used scissors and glue, not paint, so I went the easy route.)

I'm inspired to get out some scissors again, because I only wax poetic with scissors, not a pen.

Thanks, Lisa. I started this by using torn paper quite a bit, now I'm thinking of going back to it and incorporating it with the paint.

Oh, wonderful, wonderful, wonderful! Ruth that's just fantastic and I'm so very proud of you! Way to go, gal!!!

Why thank you, Amanda.

R

Thankee, Lady K

I'm glad I clicked on it for clarification... I mis-read it as Toothing my own horn.