Editor's Corner | Summer 2015
Maria S. Picone is a writer, painter, and photographer who lives in Boulder, Colorado. She studies fiction writing at Goddard College. She loves to volunteer and travel, most recently having done both in a rural village in Cambodia. Her website is mariaspicone.com, or you can follow her on Twitter @mspicone.
Dear Internet,
We've been busy Window Cats, leading our first Internet poetics workshop IRL at MassPoetry's 2015 Festival. (& even saw a reprise of the class as part of MassPoetry's Student Day of Poetry!) Our initial workshop attracted wide range of attendees, from high school students fluent in txt-speak to seniors who had to ask how to hashtag. After that fun, generative session we realized we wanted to change our mission to reflect the fact that people can come to art at any age. We are thrilled to now include emerging artists of all ages in our issues.
This issue features bits of all the things we love most about the season. Let our breezy summer reading surprise you with bursts of color: remember fireworks and outdoor concerts, anecdotes from family trips, and the observations we make when we engage with the world and people around us. Travel with us across genres: collage, poetry, fiction, photography, and collaborative works all share space here. We're excited to introduce new uses of multimedia to our magazine while continuing to highlight works that playfully push the boundaries of established forms. Be sure to listen to the audio readings accompanying two of these poems for an opportunity to engage with writing on the page as well as in performance. This issue has the truly visceral feel of capturing real people at work and at play in the real world while also reaching for something beyond the here & now.
In these last few months, we've grown as a publication and as publishers.
Thank you to all our supporters for seeing us through our growing pains and sticking with us!
Contributors, thanks again for sharing your work with us! We always look forward to sharing it with the world.
We hope you've enjoyed reading this issue, and can't wait to bring you our next.
The Editors
Kim, Elana, Emily
P.S. We're interested in growing, still! If you'd like to get involved in WCP behind the scenes, email us @ windowcatpress_at_gmail.com
We've been busy Window Cats, leading our first Internet poetics workshop IRL at MassPoetry's 2015 Festival. (& even saw a reprise of the class as part of MassPoetry's Student Day of Poetry!) Our initial workshop attracted wide range of attendees, from high school students fluent in txt-speak to seniors who had to ask how to hashtag. After that fun, generative session we realized we wanted to change our mission to reflect the fact that people can come to art at any age. We are thrilled to now include emerging artists of all ages in our issues.
This issue features bits of all the things we love most about the season. Let our breezy summer reading surprise you with bursts of color: remember fireworks and outdoor concerts, anecdotes from family trips, and the observations we make when we engage with the world and people around us. Travel with us across genres: collage, poetry, fiction, photography, and collaborative works all share space here. We're excited to introduce new uses of multimedia to our magazine while continuing to highlight works that playfully push the boundaries of established forms. Be sure to listen to the audio readings accompanying two of these poems for an opportunity to engage with writing on the page as well as in performance. This issue has the truly visceral feel of capturing real people at work and at play in the real world while also reaching for something beyond the here & now.
In these last few months, we've grown as a publication and as publishers.
Thank you to all our supporters for seeing us through our growing pains and sticking with us!
Contributors, thanks again for sharing your work with us! We always look forward to sharing it with the world.
We hope you've enjoyed reading this issue, and can't wait to bring you our next.
The Editors
Kim, Elana, Emily
P.S. We're interested in growing, still! If you'd like to get involved in WCP behind the scenes, email us @ windowcatpress_at_gmail.com
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