The Cabin and The Stone House

The full pages of Issue #7, The Cabin and The Stone House. Click on images to see larger, and to read text. Questions? Please email me here:  metamer -at- protonmail.com

Metamer Years Three and Four

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

deadline extended!

Those who have ever made an appointment to meet up with me knows that I am almost always late. Even notoriously late folks become prompt in my presence, in deference to my superior tardiness. So who am I to stick to a deadline, or to rigidly enforce it?

So, there is still time to send in a submission -- a diagram of a soccer play, or a hockey play, or the batting list from your last best game, or a poem, or a shopping list, or a drawing, or a cartoon, a comic, anything that can be printed in b&w -- for Issue #6 of The Metamer Quarterly.

Send it to me, Lara Scott, at P.O. Box 725, Sherburne, NY, 13460, by Feb 10th.

Please do!

And here's a glamour shot of issue #5,

and a line from Carrie Newcomer:

"The curious promise of limited time."

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.

everyday i write the book

Really, Elvis Costello writes the book every day.

Every day I waste some time.
Every day I sit in my studio and look out of the window.
Every day I look around the studio and think, I need to get more organized.
Every day I glue some things together.

Today I went to a presentation given by John Freeman.
(Every Thursday I go to the Living Writers series at Colgate University.
I sell books. I listen to the lecture. I sit next to the author and sell more books.)

And, luckiest of all, I get to chat with the authors. They are a lovely bunch.
John Freeman is a poet, critic, and editor of Freeman's, a biannual fiction anthology.
So that was a treat -- to meet someone else who felt strongly enough about something
to publish it, to find the things, some excellent things, and publish them.

He talked about subscriptions. Which he does not take. And I understand why.

But, every week I am reminded that making and sharing are important disciplines.

So thank you, Living Writers.

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.

the pull of the moon

If you would like to add something to The Sea, it needs to be in multiples of 17, sent to the address below. Meaning, I will add it by literally adding it. 

TMQ
P.O. Box 725
Sherburne NY 13460

if you would like to order The Sea for yourself, please send a check to the same address. ($95) I am making 17; 15 are spoken for so there are two copies still available; first come, first served.