JOYCE CAMPBELL & LEO ELOESSER
Essay by Juan Pascoe Book design by Juan Pascoe Digitally printed with letterpress slipcover by Bradley Hutchinson Co-published with Martín Pescador Press (Tacámbaro, Mexico) Edition of 80 6″ x 9″ 36 pages, richly illustrated with photos and artworks $65 About the book Juan Pascoe of Taller Martín Pescador wrote this eulogy for his neighbor […]
WAR NEWS
As of June 6, 2024, at least 36,654 Palestinians have been killed since Israel began its offensive against Hamas in Gaza on October 7, 2023. Beau Beausoleil began WAR NEWS on October 8, 2023 and closed the series on June 3, 2024 with over 200 poems. Of these, 90 poems are available as a free […]
DEDICATORIA CHICANA
The broadside of the poem “Dedicatoria Chicana” was one of a series I completed with UCSC students in 1989. In the series I paired the work of writing and art faculty and designed the broadsides, then my Porter College students set type and printed an edition of sixty copies each in my studio. Francisco […]
HEAVY LIFTING Poems
Theresa Whitehill’s poems tread a tenuous path at the boundaries between personal and collective reckonings with work that portrays grief, tenderness, defiance, and outrage. The result is a suite of fourteen poems that witness the almost unbearable pace of relentless crises of recent years—covid, climate change, racial injustice, the threat of totalitarianism, immigration crises—and begins […]
On HEAVY LIFTING, an experiment in film
CLICK on the image below to view the film, On Heavy Lifting. Screenings and festivals Heavy Lifting Listening Tour: 15 screenings of the film here Mendocino Film Festival 2024: June 2 at 5pm in Reel Mendo series here About On Heavy Lifting is a film experiment that draws on readings of Theresa’s poems, live footage of […]
HEAVY LIFTING Listening Tour
The Heavy Lifting Listening Tour aspires to offer opportunities for healing, and dreaming, through dialogue. An introduction to the project opens with a display of the artists’ book and of the experimental film, On Heavy Lifting. This is followed by a conversation between poet Theresa Whitehill and the audience in which she alternates reading […]
HEAVY LIFTING
HEAVY LIFTING Poems by Theresa Whitehill Bookwork by Felicia Rice Preface by Inge Bruggeman Foreword by Felicia Rice HEAVY LIFTING is a fierce work that names the darkness in the belief that the first stage of recovery from grief is acknowledgement, and that the precursor to action can be anger. It is a response […]
VENUS ENVY: Chapters I-IV
VENUS ENVY Chapter I: The First Holy Communion Moments Before the End Chapter II: The Harem and Other Enclosures Chapter III: Cihuatlampa, the Place of the Giant Women Chapter IV: The Road to Paris and its Aftermath–The Curandera’s Botanica Artwork by Amalia Mesa-Bains Introduction by Jennifer A. González Bookwork by Felicia Rice Edition of 1500 […]
DIGITAL POETRY SERIES
Each series is a collection of poems dedicated to a critical issue of our time and published here on the Moving Parts Press website. Some poems are interpreted as digital broadsides to print out, or post and share freely. Developments in the dissemination of digitized books, broadsides, prints, and videos, shared online and reproduced freely, […]
IN UKRAINE: POEMS
“Try to look. Just try and see.” —Charlotte Delbo Beau Beausoleil is a poet and activist who has written this series of poems in response to the unprovoked, immoral, and illegal war on Ukraine launched by Vladimir Putin and maintained by those who fear him. Beausoleil sees little difference between this colonialist invasion and the […]