The Metamer Quarterly goes on tour

Well, The Metamer, as friends have taken to calling it, hopes to tour. This weekend I am heading to a fair sponsored by the Western New York Book Arts Center (WNYBAC) in Buffalo. It will be the first art book fair for the Quarterly, as I usually call it.

Here's the postcard I am taking with me.















And here is some of the information on the back. Yes, there will be a Year Three.

No Subject, the subject is No Subject

No Subject, Issue #6 of The Metamer Quarterly, has been printed, slightly revised, and shipped.

Contributors included Dana Beck, Kate Blackwood, Elizabeth Gillett, Kevin Hamilton, Yeeseon Kwon, and Jana Laxa, among others.

For the first time in the brief history of TMQ, there are copies still available! The basic version (on the left) is available for $30 USD, plus shipping. The uniquely covered/wrapped version (on the right; it opens to something like the basic version) is available for $45 plus shipping. I have 3 copies of each available now.

For more information, or to request a copy, please write to me at The Metamer Quarterly, P.O. Box 725, Sherburne, NY 13460.

Or, send me an email. metamer@protonmail.com

No Subject, printed 2018

Printed copies of Issue #6 just arrived. Adding covers. Will ship in the next week.

No Subject

Issue #5, Time, has shipped.

Five issues complete, and three more to go. Whether The Metamer Quarterly will continue for a third year, I do not yet know.

I've been requesting submissions for Issue #6, No Subject. Anyone can send something in. I guarantee that I will put at least one of your works, whether a b&w drawing, or a piece of writing, in the issue. If you send more, I might include more, depending on the final portfolio of material.

Can you submit anonymously, in the event that you are worried about preserving your professional reputation in another area? Absolutely. Can you publish under your full name, because you would like to add to your publishing record? Again, yes!

Please send your submissions to the usual address (see below); handwritten is fine.

L Scott / The Metamer Quarterly
P.O. Box 725
Sherburne, NY, 13460

Please send by February 5th.

Need some prompts? See below:

1. Write an acrostic on any of the five previous subjects of The Metamer Quarterly. (Metamerism, Maps and Diagrams, the Book of Love, The Sea, or Time) An acrostic is a form "in which the first letter of each line makes a word or message that relates in some way to the poem's subject." (Michael Ann Courtney)

2. Three stanzas that can be sung to the tune of Amazing Grace. Or the theme to Gilligan's Island. Each stanza must contain one of the following words: fjord, platonic, tympanum, bower, telos, widdershins, buoy, loupe, quark, haver, soothe

3. A haiku containing at least two words from the list above.

4. Write a poem of 18 to 32 lines about a family member who meets a famous person. (this exercise stolen from MAC, who stole it from David Wojahn.)

5. An Then / Now poem. 4 to 8 lines, in pairs that begin:

"I used to......
But now I ....."

An alternate version:

"I used to be like....
But now I am...."

6. Draw a map of the dark side of the moon.

7. Diagram any sentence in this post.

8. Draw a picture illustrating or prompted by any three or more words from list above.

9. Submit a brief news report on anything that happened to you in 2017.

10. Draw a map of how to get from where you lived when you were seven, to where you live now.

11. Explain the theory of relativity.

12. List the five most important questions to ask when purchasing a mode of transport.

Time has a deadline

October 16, 2017

Issue #5, Time, has a deadline.

The Metamer Quarterly's New Year has begun. Time is the first issue of Year #2, and will ship on Dec 22.

If you would like a copy, please send your check for $95 by October 30th.

For Year Two, if you would like 2 of the 4 issues, the cost is $ 170. For three issues, the cost is $ 255. For all four, it is $ 340. Please do tell me which issues you want!

Please send checks to PO Box 725, Sherburne, NY 13460

Perks are still shipping; I will just keep plugging away until everyone has gotten their items. Thank you again for your patience.

As I did in Year One, I will post images of the process, and of the final issues. I plan to make several extra copies of each issue, and those will be available, first come, first served, after the ship date of each issue.

Year One, The Sea has shipped

The autumn equinox is past, and The Sea is on its way to the last few subscribers. One Year of The Metamer Quarterly is complete.

The Sea includes wool yarn that was handspun and dyed by Cris Amann, a local artist and craftsperson who makes the most amazing things. And yarn. The wool comes from her friend's sheep.

endless summer

I tell you, the relationship is its own reward

More pages from The Book of Love.

Various front and back covers, and first pages

I've capped the edition at 35. Fourteen are out in the world, either waiting patiently on the living room coffee table, or already winging their way to their proper owners. If you would like one of your own, there are 21 available. The cost is $110; international orders are $150. For a custom made box to store it in, add $45. Please write to me (Lara Scott) at The Metamer Quarterly, P.O. Box 725, Sherburne, NY, 13460.

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The Book of Love Comes Together, Right Now

I am back from an amazing bookbinding class with Erin Fletcher, who runs Herringbone Bindery, and is a graduate of The North Bennet St School in Boston. She's amazing, my classmates were lovely, and I learned a ton! And, got some advice on how to get out of the sticky corner I created for myself. So, Issue #3 is late, but moving!

Here are two versions of two spreads:

three pages, reverse, middle

Two prisms, one (left) refracting the light refracted through the other (top/center).









Metamerism ships with just one prism, but you can buy more at many scientific and education supply sites, such as eNasco.