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@jsuskin and @emptyclearpresent are heaaavily featured in our first post!

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New goodies for @detroitartbookfair (and now online ☻) GAY BOOKS hat and tote, Flower Press hat, and Wayward Education Exchange from @junetsanders ✿ Swipe to see our hat on the cutest person on earth @clare.gatto

New goodies for @detroitartbookfair (and now online ☻) GAY BOOKS hat and tote, Flower Press hat, and Wayward Education Exchange from @junetsanders ✿ Swipe to see our hat on the cutest person on earth @clare.gatto

Back to school special! Get a copy of our newest title Wayward Education Exchange for 50% off until Friday. WEE is a newspaper from @junetsanders that aids in the search for understanding, change, and new ground through teaching and learning. 🍎📰

Back to school special! Get a copy of our newest title Wayward Education Exchange for 50% off until Friday. WEE is a newspaper from @junetsanders that aids in the search for understanding, change, and new ground through teaching and learning. 🍎📰

We are so pleased to debut Wayward Education Exchange: A Journal of Radical Pedagogy from June T. Sanders & collaborators at @pghartbookfair (Special fair pricing, 50% off!) 📰✨

Wayward Education Exchange seeks to aid in the search for understanding, change, and new ground through teaching and learning — by way of alternative pedagogies, institutional critique, way-out class(rooms), relational learning, art, design, poetry, craft, childcare, neighbor visits, building projects, sidewalk chats, singing circles, long hugs, longer walks, kitchen haircuts, driving lessons, cooking together, braiding hair, etc.

The first edition features a conversation on an abandoned yacht on the shores of Lake Michigan, branches floating in the breeze, teaching as protest, and much more.

Creator and Editor:
June T Sanders (@junetsanders)

Designer:
Corbin LaMont (@corbinlamont)

Contributors:
Adrienne Economos-Miller (@a.economos.miller)
Peter Christenson
Swan Ferraro (@swanferraro)
Noushin (@noushin_msv)

We are so pleased to debut Wayward Education Exchange: A Journal of Radical Pedagogy from June T. Sanders & collaborators at @pghartbookfair (Special fair pricing, 50% off!) 📰✨

Wayward Education Exchange seeks to aid in the search for understanding, change, and new ground through teaching and learning — by way of alternative pedagogies, institutional critique, way-out class(rooms), relational learning, art, design, poetry, craft, childcare, neighbor visits, building projects, sidewalk chats, singing circles, long hugs, longer walks, kitchen haircuts, driving lessons, cooking together, braiding hair, etc.

The first edition features a conversation on an abandoned yacht on the shores of Lake Michigan, branches floating in the breeze, teaching as protest, and much more.

Creator and Editor:
June T Sanders (@junetsanders)

Designer:
Corbin LaMont (@corbinlamont)

Contributors:
Adrienne Economos-Miller (@a.economos.miller)
Peter Christenson
Swan Ferraro (@swanferraro)
Noushin (@noushin_msv)

PABF this weekend at @carnegiemuseumofart!! We are so grateful to be included in @pghartbookfair for the second year in a row. Please go say hello to our wonderful tablers, Lia and Sandy 💞 We’ll have some fair debuts for you 🙂‍↕️🌸

A little photo shoot with my latest book in the garden to celebrate its 4 months of life on earth tomorrow. It took about 4 years for this collection to find its way into the world. It’s my favorite thing I’ve written. Thank you @zoehavingfuntimes for the perfect cover design and for bringing @flower.press back in action so we could create The Verse for Now together. It couldn’t wait! It’s for NOW! Have you all picked up your copies yet? See how good it looks with plants and flowers? Today is the perfect day to sit outside and flip through the 100 cream colored pages. Find out for yourself just how potent the poems sound when read aloud to cicadas and robins. Thank you. I’ve been traveling around with these words, reciting my heart spells, grieving and rejoicing with each verse as punctuation. I’m ready to rest now. I hope this book carries you in whatever way you need. I hope you mark up the margins and ask me questions about the mysteries. It’s been an honor to see it through, to help it find its way into your good hands.

A little photo shoot with my latest book in the garden to celebrate its 4 months of life on earth tomorrow. It took about 4 years for this collection to find its way into the world. It’s my favorite thing I’ve written. Thank you @zoehavingfuntimes for the perfect cover design and for bringing @flower.press back in action so we could create The Verse for Now together. It couldn’t wait! It’s for NOW! Have you all picked up your copies yet? See how good it looks with plants and flowers? Today is the perfect day to sit outside and flip through the 100 cream colored pages. Find out for yourself just how potent the poems sound when read aloud to cicadas and robins. Thank you. I’ve been traveling around with these words, reciting my heart spells, grieving and rejoicing with each verse as punctuation. I’m ready to rest now. I hope this book carries you in whatever way you need. I hope you mark up the margins and ask me questions about the mysteries. It’s been an honor to see it through, to help it find its way into your good hands.

A little photo shoot with my latest book in the garden to celebrate its 4 months of life on earth tomorrow. It took about 4 years for this collection to find its way into the world. It’s my favorite thing I’ve written. Thank you @zoehavingfuntimes for the perfect cover design and for bringing @flower.press back in action so we could create The Verse for Now together. It couldn’t wait! It’s for NOW! Have you all picked up your copies yet? See how good it looks with plants and flowers? Today is the perfect day to sit outside and flip through the 100 cream colored pages. Find out for yourself just how potent the poems sound when read aloud to cicadas and robins. Thank you. I’ve been traveling around with these words, reciting my heart spells, grieving and rejoicing with each verse as punctuation. I’m ready to rest now. I hope this book carries you in whatever way you need. I hope you mark up the margins and ask me questions about the mysteries. It’s been an honor to see it through, to help it find its way into your good hands.

A little photo shoot with my latest book in the garden to celebrate its 4 months of life on earth tomorrow. It took about 4 years for this collection to find its way into the world. It’s my favorite thing I’ve written. Thank you @zoehavingfuntimes for the perfect cover design and for bringing @flower.press back in action so we could create The Verse for Now together. It couldn’t wait! It’s for NOW! Have you all picked up your copies yet? See how good it looks with plants and flowers? Today is the perfect day to sit outside and flip through the 100 cream colored pages. Find out for yourself just how potent the poems sound when read aloud to cicadas and robins. Thank you. I’ve been traveling around with these words, reciting my heart spells, grieving and rejoicing with each verse as punctuation. I’m ready to rest now. I hope this book carries you in whatever way you need. I hope you mark up the margins and ask me questions about the mysteries. It’s been an honor to see it through, to help it find its way into your good hands.

A little photo shoot with my latest book in the garden to celebrate its 4 months of life on earth tomorrow. It took about 4 years for this collection to find its way into the world. It’s my favorite thing I’ve written. Thank you @zoehavingfuntimes for the perfect cover design and for bringing @flower.press back in action so we could create The Verse for Now together. It couldn’t wait! It’s for NOW! Have you all picked up your copies yet? See how good it looks with plants and flowers? Today is the perfect day to sit outside and flip through the 100 cream colored pages. Find out for yourself just how potent the poems sound when read aloud to cicadas and robins. Thank you. I’ve been traveling around with these words, reciting my heart spells, grieving and rejoicing with each verse as punctuation. I’m ready to rest now. I hope this book carries you in whatever way you need. I hope you mark up the margins and ask me questions about the mysteries. It’s been an honor to see it through, to help it find its way into your good hands.

A little photo shoot with my latest book in the garden to celebrate its 4 months of life on earth tomorrow. It took about 4 years for this collection to find its way into the world. It’s my favorite thing I’ve written. Thank you @zoehavingfuntimes for the perfect cover design and for bringing @flower.press back in action so we could create The Verse for Now together. It couldn’t wait! It’s for NOW! Have you all picked up your copies yet? See how good it looks with plants and flowers? Today is the perfect day to sit outside and flip through the 100 cream colored pages. Find out for yourself just how potent the poems sound when read aloud to cicadas and robins. Thank you. I’ve been traveling around with these words, reciting my heart spells, grieving and rejoicing with each verse as punctuation. I’m ready to rest now. I hope this book carries you in whatever way you need. I hope you mark up the margins and ask me questions about the mysteries. It’s been an honor to see it through, to help it find its way into your good hands.

Tonight @booksuey at 7 PM! Come hear poems from Flower Press authors @jsuskin and @_katelynjoy_ along with two incredible local poets, @suzehonda and @elfuturosirregulares. More info through the Eventbrite link in our bio and on Book Suey's Linktree. I, zoe, will be tabling. Come say hi and pick up a copy of The Verse for Now and Radical Self-Care for Black Women from the press, as well as Suzanne and Rey's work! 🐕📚🌿

jackie’s road pix have been such a balm in a deep dark time ✨ poetry cannot do everything, but it can bring us together and nourish us for one or two lil hours. 💞 @jsuskin has a few more california tour dates for the verse for now!! tonight @skylightbooks, this sunday in idyllwild with @nicoledisson, @mandykahn, @jjjennyo, next tuesday in yucca valley with @milkthistleyuccavalley. wishing you all some solid time together, around a poem or a meal or a dance floor or a march.

#california #booktour #poetry #jsuskin #smallpress #smallpublishing #queerbooks #writer #booktok #bookstagram

jackie’s road pix have been such a balm in a deep dark time ✨ poetry cannot do everything, but it can bring us together and nourish us for one or two lil hours. 💞 @jsuskin has a few more california tour dates for the verse for now!! tonight @skylightbooks, this sunday in idyllwild with @nicoledisson, @mandykahn, @jjjennyo, next tuesday in yucca valley with @milkthistleyuccavalley. wishing you all some solid time together, around a poem or a meal or a dance floor or a march.

#california #booktour #poetry #jsuskin #smallpress #smallpublishing #queerbooks #writer #booktok #bookstagram

jackie’s road pix have been such a balm in a deep dark time ✨ poetry cannot do everything, but it can bring us together and nourish us for one or two lil hours. 💞 @jsuskin has a few more california tour dates for the verse for now!! tonight @skylightbooks, this sunday in idyllwild with @nicoledisson, @mandykahn, @jjjennyo, next tuesday in yucca valley with @milkthistleyuccavalley. wishing you all some solid time together, around a poem or a meal or a dance floor or a march.

#california #booktour #poetry #jsuskin #smallpress #smallpublishing #queerbooks #writer #booktok #bookstagram

jackie’s road pix have been such a balm in a deep dark time ✨ poetry cannot do everything, but it can bring us together and nourish us for one or two lil hours. 💞 @jsuskin has a few more california tour dates for the verse for now!! tonight @skylightbooks, this sunday in idyllwild with @nicoledisson, @mandykahn, @jjjennyo, next tuesday in yucca valley with @milkthistleyuccavalley. wishing you all some solid time together, around a poem or a meal or a dance floor or a march.

#california #booktour #poetry #jsuskin #smallpress #smallpublishing #queerbooks #writer #booktok #bookstagram

jackie’s road pix have been such a balm in a deep dark time ✨ poetry cannot do everything, but it can bring us together and nourish us for one or two lil hours. 💞 @jsuskin has a few more california tour dates for the verse for now!! tonight @skylightbooks, this sunday in idyllwild with @nicoledisson, @mandykahn, @jjjennyo, next tuesday in yucca valley with @milkthistleyuccavalley. wishing you all some solid time together, around a poem or a meal or a dance floor or a march.

#california #booktour #poetry #jsuskin #smallpress #smallpublishing #queerbooks #writer #booktok #bookstagram

jackie’s road pix have been such a balm in a deep dark time ✨ poetry cannot do everything, but it can bring us together and nourish us for one or two lil hours. 💞 @jsuskin has a few more california tour dates for the verse for now!! tonight @skylightbooks, this sunday in idyllwild with @nicoledisson, @mandykahn, @jjjennyo, next tuesday in yucca valley with @milkthistleyuccavalley. wishing you all some solid time together, around a poem or a meal or a dance floor or a march.

#california #booktour #poetry #jsuskin #smallpress #smallpublishing #queerbooks #writer #booktok #bookstagram

jackie’s road pix have been such a balm in a deep dark time ✨ poetry cannot do everything, but it can bring us together and nourish us for one or two lil hours. 💞 @jsuskin has a few more california tour dates for the verse for now!! tonight @skylightbooks, this sunday in idyllwild with @nicoledisson, @mandykahn, @jjjennyo, next tuesday in yucca valley with @milkthistleyuccavalley. wishing you all some solid time together, around a poem or a meal or a dance floor or a march.

#california #booktour #poetry #jsuskin #smallpress #smallpublishing #queerbooks #writer #booktok #bookstagram

despite the many ways in which words are polluted & abused by the market, the state, & the million arms of media & propaganda, they can be made whole & holy again in the care of those devoted word miners, expert witnesses, & wonder smiths we call poets.

set free by these rare creatures, words can once again delight, cut, nourish & reconnect us to the boundless mystery of being here on earth.

in this spirit we are deeply grateful to word artists like jacqueline suskin, & are honored to help host her reading & book signing under the great mulberry tree in the pool yard of the ojai rancho inn tomorrow, sunday, may 18, at 5pm.

all ages welcome.
donations welcome.
signed copies of jacqueline’s new book, “the verse for now,” will be available.

✍🏼 ♥️ 🙏🏽

@jsuskin
@flower.press @sheltersocialclub

#jacquelinesuskin
#flowerpress
#ojai
#greatergoods
#greatergoodsojai
#ojairanchoinn
#sheltersocialclub
#poetry
#poems
#theversefornow

despite the many ways in which words are polluted & abused by the market, the state, & the million arms of media & propaganda, they can be made whole & holy again in the care of those devoted word miners, expert witnesses, & wonder smiths we call poets.

set free by these rare creatures, words can once again delight, cut, nourish & reconnect us to the boundless mystery of being here on earth.

in this spirit we are deeply grateful to word artists like jacqueline suskin, & are honored to help host her reading & book signing under the great mulberry tree in the pool yard of the ojai rancho inn tomorrow, sunday, may 18, at 5pm.

all ages welcome.
donations welcome.
signed copies of jacqueline’s new book, “the verse for now,” will be available.

✍🏼 ♥️ 🙏🏽

@jsuskin
@flower.press @sheltersocialclub

#jacquelinesuskin
#flowerpress
#ojai
#greatergoods
#greatergoodsojai
#ojairanchoinn
#sheltersocialclub
#poetry
#poems
#theversefornow

despite the many ways in which words are polluted & abused by the market, the state, & the million arms of media & propaganda, they can be made whole & holy again in the care of those devoted word miners, expert witnesses, & wonder smiths we call poets.

set free by these rare creatures, words can once again delight, cut, nourish & reconnect us to the boundless mystery of being here on earth.

in this spirit we are deeply grateful to word artists like jacqueline suskin, & are honored to help host her reading & book signing under the great mulberry tree in the pool yard of the ojai rancho inn tomorrow, sunday, may 18, at 5pm.

all ages welcome.
donations welcome.
signed copies of jacqueline’s new book, “the verse for now,” will be available.

✍🏼 ♥️ 🙏🏽

@jsuskin
@flower.press @sheltersocialclub

#jacquelinesuskin
#flowerpress
#ojai
#greatergoods
#greatergoodsojai
#ojairanchoinn
#sheltersocialclub
#poetry
#poems
#theversefornow

despite the many ways in which words are polluted & abused by the market, the state, & the million arms of media & propaganda, they can be made whole & holy again in the care of those devoted word miners, expert witnesses, & wonder smiths we call poets.

set free by these rare creatures, words can once again delight, cut, nourish & reconnect us to the boundless mystery of being here on earth.

in this spirit we are deeply grateful to word artists like jacqueline suskin, & are honored to help host her reading & book signing under the great mulberry tree in the pool yard of the ojai rancho inn tomorrow, sunday, may 18, at 5pm.

all ages welcome.
donations welcome.
signed copies of jacqueline’s new book, “the verse for now,” will be available.

✍🏼 ♥️ 🙏🏽

@jsuskin
@flower.press @sheltersocialclub

#jacquelinesuskin
#flowerpress
#ojai
#greatergoods
#greatergoodsojai
#ojairanchoinn
#sheltersocialclub
#poetry
#poems
#theversefornow

despite the many ways in which words are polluted & abused by the market, the state, & the million arms of media & propaganda, they can be made whole & holy again in the care of those devoted word miners, expert witnesses, & wonder smiths we call poets.

set free by these rare creatures, words can once again delight, cut, nourish & reconnect us to the boundless mystery of being here on earth.

in this spirit we are deeply grateful to word artists like jacqueline suskin, & are honored to help host her reading & book signing under the great mulberry tree in the pool yard of the ojai rancho inn tomorrow, sunday, may 18, at 5pm.

all ages welcome.
donations welcome.
signed copies of jacqueline’s new book, “the verse for now,” will be available.

✍🏼 ♥️ 🙏🏽

@jsuskin
@flower.press @sheltersocialclub

#jacquelinesuskin
#flowerpress
#ojai
#greatergoods
#greatergoodsojai
#ojairanchoinn
#sheltersocialclub
#poetry
#poems
#theversefornow

despite the many ways in which words are polluted & abused by the market, the state, & the million arms of media & propaganda, they can be made whole & holy again in the care of those devoted word miners, expert witnesses, & wonder smiths we call poets.

set free by these rare creatures, words can once again delight, cut, nourish & reconnect us to the boundless mystery of being here on earth.

in this spirit we are deeply grateful to word artists like jacqueline suskin, & are honored to help host her reading & book signing under the great mulberry tree in the pool yard of the ojai rancho inn tomorrow, sunday, may 18, at 5pm.

all ages welcome.
donations welcome.
signed copies of jacqueline’s new book, “the verse for now,” will be available.

✍🏼 ♥️ 🙏🏽

@jsuskin
@flower.press @sheltersocialclub

#jacquelinesuskin
#flowerpress
#ojai
#greatergoods
#greatergoodsojai
#ojairanchoinn
#sheltersocialclub
#poetry
#poems
#theversefornow

Mother’s Day reading from The Verse for Now. So many ways to celebrate and grieve. Is there a more complex relationship to reflect upon?

@jsuskin blessed us with some photos from the road as she kicks off the california leg of her book tour 🥹 the book inside the tree that is on the cover of the book that contains a poem about the tree 🪞

@jsuskin blessed us with some photos from the road as she kicks off the california leg of her book tour 🥹 the book inside the tree that is on the cover of the book that contains a poem about the tree 🪞

@jsuskin blessed us with some photos from the road as she kicks off the california leg of her book tour 🥹 the book inside the tree that is on the cover of the book that contains a poem about the tree 🪞

“I Am Not Alone Here” from The Verse for Now by @jsuskin 💫 Have you gotten your book? Let us know what poem resonates w you today. Haven’t gotten your book?? The next batch should go out early next week. 💌