Poem by Lynne Ellis – Winner of the 2018 Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize
Relief print by Felicia Rice
Limited edition of 48
12 1/2″ x 22″
$25
More broadsides of poems by Lynne Ellis are available on this site at A Virus Held Us: Poems of the Pandemic. Unlimited access to digital broadsides to post and print here.
ABOUT THE BROADSIDE
Commissioned by the Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Magazine in celebration of the 2018 poetry prize. Handset and printed by Felicia Rice in Baskerville types on Hahnemuhle Copperplate paper. Relief print from collotype created with cloth.
A review of the SEAMSTRESS broadside was written by the Seattle poet Christina Montilla and published on May 29, 2020 in the online journal, New Archives. It’s a part of their “Art At Home” series.
ABOUT THE POEM
Red Wheelbarrow administers an annual poetry prize. The 2018 judge was Naomi Shihab Nye. About the poem, Shihab Nye writes, “I felt very touched by the elegant development of this metaphor, how not a single extra word exists in the poem; it’s as clear as fine stitchery indeed, and the breathtaking arrival of the end….”
ABOUT THE POET
Lynne Ellis writes in pen. Her words appear in WA 129 (Sage Hill Press), The Stars (Outrider Press), Cascadia Rising Review, and are forthcoming in PageBoy. She is the recipient of this year’s Red Wheelbarrow poetry prize, and was a finalist for the 2017 Letheon poetry prize and the 49th Parallel award (Bellingham Review). Her chapbook, In these failing times I can forget, is available from Papeachu Press. Lynne is a member of I.A.T.S.E. Local 15 in Seattle, where she works as a lighting designer and master electrician for theater. She brings poetry to the catwalks and craft to the page.
ABOUT THE RED WHEELBARROW POETRY MAGAZINE
Red Wheelbarrow has been published since 2000 through De Anza College in Cupertino, CA. Editor Ken Weisner writes, “We believe that everything that crosses the transom merits deep attention. We believe that beauty and meaning will inhabit wildly varied and unexpected tones and styles. Our journal is well produced, eclectic, tough minded, open, lyrical, passionate—socio-politically engaged—and we value quiet & craft, the gaze into nature, the deft image, the startling leap, meditative consciousness—and great use of language. We honor and crave all of those qualities—in art—and in one another.”