Riparia riparia

Chuck Stebelton

POETRY / EPHEMERA
A seasonal cycle of tautonymic bird sightings grounded in the place of observation and the act of naming. Part of an ongoing series titled Round River.

DETAILS
February 2024
Edition of 70
6x6 in.
Letterpress printed broadside and card housed in an invitation envelope. Papers: Fabriano Tiziano and French Speckletone.

PURCHASE
The first edition is sold out. A limited number of copies are available at Woodland Pattern Book Center and through the author. A second edition is in the works.

Chuck Stebelton is author most recently of One Hundred Patterns & Three Heuristics (Green Gallery Press, 2023). His previous poetry collections include An Apostle Island (Oxeye Press, 2021), The Platformist (Cultural Society, 2012), and Circulation Flowers (Tougher Disguises, 2005). He currently serves as Project Manager at Woodland Pattern Book Center, a nonprofit literary arts organization in Milwaukee. As a Wisconsin Master Naturalist volunteer, he has led workshops and field trips for nonprofit organizations and conservancy groups including Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters; Milwaukee Public Library; Woodland Pattern Book Center; Friends of Lorine Niedecker; and Lynden Sculpture Garden. He recently completed an ARTservancy artist residency with River Revitalization Foundation and has held residencies at Lynden Sculpture Garden in 2011, 2014, and from 2018 to 2024.