“Our Favorite People in the Room”: Literary/Art Anthology

Anthologies

Sep 17

Written By Ash Good

I collaborated as designer, publication consultant and co-editor of this full-color large-format poetry and art anthology from First Matter Press. Cover art by Portland collage artist Lara Rouse. This collection documents a selection of the creative works generated at Poetry Scramble and features new work from 16 of First Matter Press's legacy editors, authors, and artists. Inside you'll find community-crafted erasures, exquisite corpse, human magnetic poetry, Mad Libs-style poems, centos, and collages, plus new writing and art from: Rae Diamond, ash good, Lauren Paredes, Jessica E. Pierce, Emily Moon, Rachel Mulder, Xylophone Mykland, Lara Rouse, Hailey Spencer, Sara Swoboda, Andra Vltavín, Dan Wiencek, Caroline Wilcox Reul, Sonya Wohletz, Charity E. Yoro, and ahuva s. zaslavsky.

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Our Favorite People in the Room: Literary/Art Anthology

AVAILABLE @ BOOKSHOP.ORG + OTHER BOOKSELLERS

Edited by ash good, Lauren Paredes & Emily Moon
Paperback | 64 pages | September 2023
Published by First Matter Press

Ash Good

⚡️⚡️PLAY👉SACRED⚡️⚡️ 💫free 🌈queer 🎯curator ◼️designer ⭕️editor 🌊poet 🔮priestess 🌱plantwhisperer

This space is where I free myself to meaning-make in my own aesthetic to document and unpack concepts, experiments and experiences that are important to me. Read more about my praxis here. For brand curation and book design click over to ashgood.design. For ritual, movement, meditation, writing circles, toys and pop-up experiences to play with your intuition, visit highpriestesses.com. If you’d like to know more, my full bio is here.

http://www.ashgood.com/

“Our Favorite People in the Room”: Literary/Art Anthology

ash good is the author of us clumsy gods (What Books Press, 2022) & four previous writing collections. Their poetry has been nominated for Best of the Net & appears in Faultline, Cimarron Review, 45th Parallel, Chautauqua, Bird Coat Quarterly, Voicemail Poems & others.

They are co-founding editor of First Matter Press, a nonprofit writer collective based in Portland, OR.

As a creative director & designer, ash collaborates on publishing projects with small presses, journals, literary organizations, universities & independent authors.

“Our Favorite People in the Room”: Literary/Art Anthology

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Rae Diamond’s “floating bones”

ash good is the author of us clumsy gods (What Books Press, 2022) & four previous writing collections. Their poetry has been nominated for Best of the Net & appears in Faultline, Cimarron Review, 45th Parallel, Chautauqua, Bird Coat Quarterly, Voicemail Poems & others.

They are co-founding editor of First Matter Press, a nonprofit writer collective based in Portland, OR.

As a creative director & designer, ash collaborates on publishing projects with small presses, journals, literary organizations, universities & independent authors.