A union of artists

Side one of the UMVA trifold brochure design by Shanna Compton, 2024.

Here’s a brochure I designed for the Union of Maine Visual Artists, and I’ve also been on the committee for a new website that is being designed. It’s all gonna look quite spiffy, I think, and be a much better

Midwinter Constellation

I’m excited and honored to be part of this stellar collaborative book, forthcoming next month (January 2022) from Black Lawrence Press. The spark was Becca Klaver’s, and the experience remains among my favorite being-a-poet-among-poets happenings to date, writing through a

New perspective

Another review of (CREATURE SOUNDS FADE)!

A copy of Creature Sounds Fade held in the hand of a tattooed friend. The cover feature a pink wolf painting and the title and author’s name are styled like closed-caption sound effects.

“In a collection that is two parts feral eco-poetry, and one part stingingly personal reflection, New Jersey writer Shanna Compton uses re-engineered punctuation as the soundtrack to her crucial work. Here, the woods and the animals do not merely appear

First review of (CREATURE SOUNDS FADE)!

The cover of (CREATURE SOUNDS FADE) by Shanna Compton, featuring a painting of a wolf in ochre, pink, black, and gray against a pale blue-gray background. The title and author name are styled in semi-opaque black boxes and yellow monospace type, in the manner of Closed Captions, which are a theme. The back cover shows three blurbs, by Diane Seuss, Dara Wier, and Anselm Berrigan.

“The latest title from Lambertville, New Jersey poet, artist and book designer Shanna Compton is (Creature Sounds Fade) (Black Lawrence Press, 2020), a collection of poems predominantly built of single-page lyric narrative sketch-works, as multiple of her poems give the

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