An Apostle Island

Chuck Stebelton

POETRY / NATURAL HISTORY
Edition of 65

A seasonal cycle of nine poems, each finding its form in correspondence. An Apostle Island is the first publication in a series under the working title The Earth and Its Atmosphere, after Lorine Niedecker’s late manuscript. Locality: RKD, Arcadia, Michigan; The Niagara Escarpment; Orfordville, Wisconsin; Sturtevant and Union Grove; The Milwaukee and Rock River Canal.

DETAILS
February 2021
Letterpress printed with metal type on fine papers. Hand bound with linen thread.
24 pp, 7.5x5 in

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Chuck Stebelton’s previous poetry collections include The Platformist (Cultural Society, 2012) and Circulation Flowers (Tougher Disguises, 2005). He served as Literary Program Director at Woodland Pattern Book Center from 2005 to 2017. In 2018 he established Partly Press, a poetry imprint with an emphasis on well made poems-as-object and radically specific landscape poems. As a Wisconsin Master Naturalist volunteer he has offered interpretive hikes for conservancy groups and non-profit organizations including Friends of Cedarburg Bog, Milwaukee Audubon Society, Milwaukee Public Library, Woodland Pattern Book Center, Friends of Lorine Niedecker, and the Lynden Sculpture Garden. He has held residencies at Lynden Sculpture Garden in 2011, 2014, and from 2018 to 2021 ongoing.