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My Father's Ruler
Gouache and water color painting by J.D. 2023 My Father’s Ruler My father made his living as a commercial artist in the era when all production was…
Johanna Drucker
Jan 24
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Resist/Persist:
The resonance of material in the collages of Deborah Krall
Johanna Drucker
Jan 21
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December 2022
My Holiday Prince
He is a hideous little thing, my prince, an unfortunate monster with unnatural features. The deep red pockmarks that puncture his cheeks rhyme with the…
Johanna Drucker
Dec 22, 2022
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M.C. Kinniburgh, Wild Intelligence: Poets’ Libraries and the Politics of Knowledge in Postwar America (Amherst: University of Massachusetts…
Think of a poet’s library and an idyllic scene comes to mind, right? We conjure a private quiet room, walls lined with neatly arranged shelves, others…
Johanna Drucker
Dec 14, 2022
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My Unread Bible
My Unread Bible On my first day of kindergarten my mother took me only inside the door to the classroom. We stood together for a moment and I hesitated…
Johanna Drucker
Dec 6, 2022
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November 2022
My First Novel
I was twelve the year I wrote The Letter. At ninety-six pages, the manuscript barely qualifies as a novel, but with unlimited adolescent humility, I put…
Johanna Drucker
Nov 16, 2022
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Typographic Translation
A new edition of Ardengo Soffici’s Simultaneities
Johanna Drucker
Nov 10, 2022
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My Democratic Labyrinth
A month before election day, the mail-in ballot arrives. This long lead time rightfully suggests that voting will require weeks of research work. If I…
Johanna Drucker
Nov 1, 2022
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October 2022
The Waking Dream:
Jody Zellen’s People, Places, and Isolating Spaces
Johanna Drucker
Oct 26, 2022
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My Post-It™ Accounting
Ever stop to consider which office supplies invented in the last century have had the greatest impact on your life? We give the conspicuous objects of…
Johanna Drucker
Oct 22, 2022
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Organic Intelligence:
Recent Drawings by Julie Harrison
Johanna Drucker
Oct 10, 2022
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My Father's Shirts
Watercolor and gouache on board, by JD. My father died in January, as peacefully as he and we could have hoped. No lingering illness preceded his death…
Johanna Drucker
Oct 1, 2022
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