A collection of book and fibre arts, art and poetry curated byJessica Smith, librarian, author of Organic Furniture Cellar and Editor of Foursquare magazineTumblr (3.0; @looktouch)http://looktouch.tumblr.com/<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/03b9ecdbb34bf2c344c5a8e6ad14dbaa/tumblr_mn42p1hSz31qb0un3o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>OMG <a href="http://www.libraryasincubatorproject.org/?p=9638" target="_blank">Trong Gia Nguyen at the Library as Incubator Project</a> </p> <blockquote> <p><span>For the past seven years I’ve been writing literary works word for word on rice kernels, encased in little mylar packets imprinted with old library card-cataloging information. The original idea was to write all of Marcel Proust’s “In Search of Lost Time” word for word on grains of rice, to be housed in a giant hourglass.</span></p> </blockquote>http://looktouch.tumblr.com/post/50924519345http://looktouch.tumblr.com/post/50924519345Mon, 20 May 2013 15:12:36 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/64f10f73214f2a516d60367cd7eba96a/tumblr_mmwznfDqqA1qb0un3o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Author copies arrived! With valentine-red end papers under feather-white cover. Thanks rob! (at glen iris)</p>http://looktouch.tumblr.com/post/50610067270http://looktouch.tumblr.com/post/50610067270Thu, 16 May 2013 19:23:39 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/8ff6df855691d67e995c4f582a29c8c4/tumblr_mmqxjhJXbE1qb0un3o1_250.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><big>mnemotechnics</big></p><blockquote><p>A selection of poems from my manuscript <em>mnemotechnics</em> is <a href="http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2013/05/new-from-aboveground-press.html" target="_blank">available as a chapbook from above/ground…</a></p></blockquote><p><a href="http://looktouch.wordpress.com/2013/05/13/mnemotechnics/" target="_blank">View Post</a></p>http://looktouch.tumblr.com/post/50349704573http://looktouch.tumblr.com/post/50349704573Mon, 13 May 2013 12:52:30 -0400<blockquote><p>For those of you who haven’t ever used it, <a href="http://pinterest.com/" target="_blank">Pinterest</a> is a link storage site (similar to <a href="https://delicious.com/" target="_blank">delicious</a>) that organizes bookmarks with pictures; it’s also similar to Tumblr in that you can like and share links.* Users make “boards” and then upload, link, or…</p></blockquote><p><a href="http://looktouch.wordpress.com/2013/05/06/curation-not-competition-pinterest-and-poetry/" target="_blank">View Post</a></p>http://looktouch.tumblr.com/post/49783164490http://looktouch.tumblr.com/post/49783164490Mon, 06 May 2013 13:07:26 -0400<blockquote><p>We’re packing and cleaning this weekend to get ready to move for May 1. As you can probably tell, I ran out of NaPoWriMo steam mid-month when we finalized the house purchase. This poem is for the spiders we’ve uprooted:</p> <p><strong>Spider Poem with Exclamation Mark</strong></p> <p>T…</p></blockquote><p><a href="http://looktouch.wordpress.com/2013/04/27/napowrimo-day-27-shorts/" target="_blank">View Post</a></p>http://looktouch.tumblr.com/post/49046056421http://looktouch.tumblr.com/post/49046056421Sat, 27 Apr 2013 19:43:16 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/ec2d2441d55b267ba91b88a4db8aaa52/tumblr_mlvzrpPgqJ1qb0un3o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><big>NaPoWriMo Day 26: Child-Poem</big></p><blockquote><p>My 2.5 year old son dictated this poem to me, including the placement and sizes of the words. I…</p></blockquote><p><a href="http://looktouch.wordpress.com/2013/04/26/napowrimo-day-26-child-poem/" target="_blank">View Post</a></p>http://looktouch.tumblr.com/post/48964410448http://looktouch.tumblr.com/post/48964410448Fri, 26 Apr 2013 19:55:00 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/971ea5449015d66baada3f45edde1931/tumblr_mlsi3iATSR1qb0un3o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><big>Recent novels</big></p><blockquote><p><br/> A few contemporary novels I’ve read recently that I liked, with rough descriptions.</p> <p>1. <a href="http://www.librarything.com/work/11369461" target="_blank"><em>The Sense…</em></a></p></blockquote><p><a href="http://looktouch.wordpress.com/2013/04/24/recent-novels/" target="_blank">View Post</a></p>http://looktouch.tumblr.com/post/48825244974http://looktouch.tumblr.com/post/48825244974Wed, 24 Apr 2013 22:40:30 -0400<blockquote><p>Yeah, so I missed a few days. We bought a house. People buy houses all the time, and it seems like it must be an easy process because people do it all the time, but it’s not easy. It wasn’t easy for us. Sometimes you have to write bad poetry to crank up…</p></blockquote><p><a href="http://looktouch.wordpress.com/2013/04/24/napowrimo-day-24-pure-narrative/" target="_blank">View Post</a></p>http://looktouch.tumblr.com/post/48793792160http://looktouch.tumblr.com/post/48793792160Wed, 24 Apr 2013 16:06:47 -0400<p>Top 10 Novels</p><blockquote><p>1. <em>Lolita </em>(Vladimir Nabokov)</p> <p>The Great American Novel was written by a Russian aristocratic expat, and one of its two main characters is a similar European expat– but then, most of us came here from elsewhere, and until recently, English wasn’t the first…</p></blockquote><p><a href="http://looktouch.wordpress.com/2013/04/18/top-10-novels/" target="_blank">View Post</a></p>http://looktouch.tumblr.com/post/48355782069http://looktouch.tumblr.com/post/48355782069Fri, 19 Apr 2013 10:03:24 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/73ebb9c6dfe5aa114fa82611fd45ed16/tumblr_mlhc6tzgRH1qb0un3o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>My NaPoWriMo this week was the 40+ signatures I exchanged for a house</p>http://looktouch.tumblr.com/post/48325046130http://looktouch.tumblr.com/post/48325046130Thu, 18 Apr 2013 21:59:17 -0400<blockquote><p>This weekend, we went to Atlanta for Nick’s 30th birthday (which was last week); his gift was tickets to both They Might Be Giants shows at Variety Playhouse. Before we left, we went to the Birmingham Museum of Art to see the <a href="http://www.artsbma.org/exhibitions-all/hip-hippo-hooray" target="_blank">hippos</a>. In Atlanta, we went…</p></blockquote><p><a href="http://looktouch.wordpress.com/2013/04/15/napowrimo-days-10-13-15-layers/" target="_blank">View Post</a></p>http://looktouch.tumblr.com/post/48094795657http://looktouch.tumblr.com/post/48094795657Mon, 15 Apr 2013 23:08:54 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/8e6e9dd1237c4146ec90da5222dd3e3d/tumblr_ml5k1x2p9P1qb0un3o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><big>Pigeon interlude</big></p><blockquote><p><a href="http://eyelashleye.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">Ash Smith</a>, Sarah Campbell, Pattie McCarthy and I have been responding on Facebook to a post from…</p></blockquote><p><a href="http://looktouch.wordpress.com/2013/04/12/pigeon-interlude/" target="_blank">View Post</a></p>http://looktouch.tumblr.com/post/47790740221http://looktouch.tumblr.com/post/47790740221Fri, 12 Apr 2013 13:17:57 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/e63d5a8956f46107ca5034c66c413ae9/tumblr_ml5k1re7lh1qb0un3o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><big>NaPoWriMo Day 12: Politics</big></p><blockquote> <p>This poems follows the “x is a y” extended metaphor model that I grew up with in k-12 creative…</p></blockquote><p><a href="http://looktouch.wordpress.com/2013/04/12/napowrimo-day-12-politics/" target="_blank">View Post</a></p>http://looktouch.tumblr.com/post/47790733488http://looktouch.tumblr.com/post/47790733488Fri, 12 Apr 2013 13:17:50 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/d75713895c58478a8f0573d680a70994/tumblr_ml2jbjSM1e1qghk7bo1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/488b5064af6d9ea73878a5b44b256186/tumblr_ml2jbjSM1e1qghk7bo2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/84b7a95402757112069458119fa3f5db/tumblr_ml2jbjSM1e1qghk7bo3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://www.cavetocanvas.com/post/47752492006/cai-guo-qiang-ninety-nine-horses-2011" target="_blank">cavetocanvas</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.caiguoqiang.com/projects/ninety-nine-horses" target="_blank">Cai Guo-Qiang</a>, <em>Ninety Nine Horses,</em> 2011</p> </blockquote>http://looktouch.tumblr.com/post/47786414389http://looktouch.tumblr.com/post/47786414389Fri, 12 Apr 2013 11:57:31 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/a2dc1a7cfc4f982b2b1c88fffe19de83/tumblr_ml2j7fC0sQ1qghk7bo1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/7a1b32fcd5ad023f37e229832f247958/tumblr_ml2j7fC0sQ1qghk7bo2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/00f8a0bc1a032c66de33e731fb511211/tumblr_ml2j7fC0sQ1qghk7bo3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p>One of my favorite contemporary artists just keeps killing it (literally/figuratively)</p> <p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://www.cavetocanvas.com/post/47745654024/cai-guo-qiang-flying-together-2011" target="_blank">cavetocanvas</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.caiguoqiang.com/projects/flying-together" target="_blank">Cai Guo-Qiang</a>, <em>Flying Together</em>, 2011</p> </blockquote>http://looktouch.tumblr.com/post/47786407819http://looktouch.tumblr.com/post/47786407819Fri, 12 Apr 2013 11:57:23 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/b80955f200141057f37deee25f17e048/tumblr_ml3q9dtLj51qb0un3o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>NaPoWriMo Day 11: Magic</p><p><a href="http://looktouch.wordpress.com/2013/04/11/napowrimo-day-11-magic/" target="_blank">View Post</a></p>http://looktouch.tumblr.com/post/47711416420http://looktouch.tumblr.com/post/47711416420Thu, 11 Apr 2013 13:36:49 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/c5d2c56b6a652233cdca883f860737bf/tumblr_ml01s9mxNt1qb0un3o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><big>NaPoWriMo Day 9: Nature</big></p><blockquote><p><img/></p> <p>Been reading Christina Rossetti, feeling “listy” (in contrast to “listless”?)</p></blockquote><p><a href="http://looktouch.wordpress.com/2013/04/09/napowrimo-day-9-nature/" target="_blank">View Post</a></p>http://looktouch.tumblr.com/post/47550623725http://looktouch.tumblr.com/post/47550623725Tue, 09 Apr 2013 13:55:21 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/f4f7a0932e6971dce310c3b22734cfe5/tumblr_mkyistRL4i1qb0un3o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><big>NaPoWriMo Day 8: Myth</big></p><blockquote><p>This is not the poem I want to write about this.  It’s too fragmentary– I’m not sure it’s…</p></blockquote><p><a href="http://looktouch.wordpress.com/2013/04/08/napowrimo-day-8-myth/" target="_blank">View Post</a></p>http://looktouch.tumblr.com/post/47486148860http://looktouch.tumblr.com/post/47486148860Mon, 08 Apr 2013 18:07:41 -0400<a href="http://atlas.lib.uiowa.edu/">(New) Atlas of Early Printing</a>: <p>“<span>The Atlas of Early Printing is an interactive site designed to be used as a tool for teaching the early history of printing in Europe during the second half of the fifteenth century.</span><span>”</span></p>http://looktouch.tumblr.com/post/47455185123http://looktouch.tumblr.com/post/47455185123Mon, 08 Apr 2013 09:37:44 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/b69e93d752deb273fc2eca6b902661dd/tumblr_mkszfuplBi1rnc3y3o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>In fact, read more Rae Armantrout.</p> <p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://poetsorg.tumblr.com/post/47432154652/throughout-national-poetry-month-well-be" target="_blank">poetsorg</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Throughout National Poetry Month, we’ll be featuring a letter/postcard of advice from 30 Poets. Today’s is from <a href="http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/1134" target="_blank">Rae Armantrout</a>.</p> </blockquote>http://looktouch.tumblr.com/post/47432929052http://looktouch.tumblr.com/post/47432929052Mon, 08 Apr 2013 00:10:00 -0400