This Thursday, April 30, is Poem in Your Pocket Day, part of the celebration of National Poetry Month. The idea is that you carry a poem with you to share with people you meet that day. Their website has a downloadable pocket-sized poems that you can print to share or poems categorized by topic that you can choose from.
In the last issue of Ampersand, Cathy Miranker wrote about Poem in Your Pocket day. We included a cardboard library pocket with the issue along with instructions for a simple single sheet book. Cathy proposed that people make a book, using a favorite poem as content, and bring it to the annual PCBA Printers’ and Book Arts Fair on Sat May 9th, for our own local celebration of poetry month. I’m excited to see what people come up with.
Last year a company in England that makes posters contacted me about proposing one of my wood type collages to Ikea… they would reproduce my original, make and supply the prints, I would get a royalty. I figured I had nothing to loose and sent off a proof for them to scan and forgot about it. Much to my surprise, Ikea selected my print, and in a huge size — almost 26×40. I got a proof the other day — that’s it to the right — and they should be available in Ikea stores in October!
Another topic that seems to come up a lot around me recently is Twitter, specifically is it good for anything. I first checked it out last year when there was a wild fire near my sister’s house in Los Angeles — someone was posting updates about the fire, but calling my sister turned out to be much more informative (and accurate). Then this week there was a article in the NY Times about a woman who 
