THE BIG PAUSE (Part One)
In the week leading up to Easter 2020, I began making sketches for a graphic short story about the corona crisis. The goal was to document and use scenes from the corona crisis, to create a narrative that can provide a picture of how the crisis affects people physically, mentally and socially—but also about small nice moments of smiles and unexpected conversations with others.
The project is still under development.
Line Maj Skuldbøl
To see more of Line Maj's work, visit her website.
Spring 2020
Three visually inspired and inspiring books in a beautiful 6.5" square format.
Andrea Clark Libin
Orphan of the Moon
Notebook of a Girl in a Moscow Station
88 pages
Michael Sohn
Still Forms
Visible Poetry
116 pages
Ninso John High
Without Dragons Even the Emperor Would Be Lonely
Ensos, Parables & Koans
152 pages
Fall Readings (dates TBA) | Past Readings (video)
Poetry, Parables, The Inanimate: Ensos & Koans & Meditation in the Time of Quarantine and Social Injustice. Ninso John High with Omotara James, Uche Nduka, Andrea Libin and Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno.
Collage, Postcard Stories, & Cutups: A Conversation with Andrea Clark Libin, Doretta Lau, and Maya Bushell on Libin’s hybrid novella, Orphan of the Moon.
I have a question for you. A mother / daughter conversation about writing. Michelle Murphy and Grace Murphy.
Dispatches Blog
Andrea Clark Libin reading from, Orphan of the Moon. “A living, breathing, hybrid work unlike anything I've ever read—an orphan's notebook exhumed from the Moscow station and entrusted to your own red heart.” —Karen Russell
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Wet Cement Press is the project of a group of writers who once lived and worked together in San Francisco, but we don't live there anymore. Our tastes in literature run toward the lyrical and spontaneous, the raw and unsmooth. We have worked in publishing in New York and San Francisco and Moscow, but are not being investigated for our Russian connections, as far as we know. Several of us were involved in the Five Fingers Review & Press. One of us used to live in a tipi, another lives above a casino. Two of us were librarians, but no longer work there. We believe that the cement is always wet and that the world waits to be marked.
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