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Latest Book: Creature Sounds FadeOn Mastodon: @[email protected] Instagram: instagram.com/hiwaterpressBook Design: shannacompton.myportfolio.com

Shanna December 18, 2022December 18, 2022 Uncategorized Read more

Midwinter Constellation

The cover of Midwinter Constellation. It’s a mottled turquoise blue with a vintage look and cream type. A few stars and hand-drawn loop float behind the title and cross the spine to the back cover, where all 32 author names and the blurbs appear.

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

Shanna December 16, 2021December 16, 2021 Uncategorized Read more

New perspective

Shanna September 21, 2021September 21, 2021 Uncategorized Read more

Another review of (CREATURE SOUNDS FADE)!

“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

Shanna March 31, 2021March 31, 2021 Uncategorized Read more

First review of (CREATURE SOUNDS FADE)!

“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

Shanna December 3, 2020December 3, 2020 Uncategorized Read more

(CREATURE SOUNDS FADE) is here!

The official publication date is now November 15, but copies are back from the printer and Black Lawrence has started shipping out the preorders! I’m thinking of some alternate ways to virtually celebrate, since I can’t do the reading trips

Shanna October 30, 2020October 30, 2020 Uncategorized Read more

Closed Caption collage series

I’m working on a series of 50 collages using found imagery and closed-caption sound effects, which will be going to the first 50 people to preorder (CREATURE SOUNDS FADE) from Black Lawrence. A visual take on the method behind many

Shanna May 27, 2020May 27, 2020 Uncategorized Read more

The Eyes Have Woods: a film-poem

Shanna May 10, 2020May 10, 2020 Uncategorized Read more

(CREATURE SOUNDS FADE) now available for preorder

It has a cover! And I love it. Everything is weird & all my launch events have been canceled or postponed indefinitely, but I am nevertheless excited and grateful the book is still coming out as planned. I hope you

Shanna April 25, 2020May 18, 2020 Uncategorized Read more

Upcoming readings & appearances

Full details on the calendar page. POSTPONED: SAN ANTONIO, TX Saturday, March 7, 10–4 Whale Prom Alternative Bookfair Offsite during AWP 2020 Brick at Blue Star 108 Blue Star POSTPONED: PANEL & POETRY FESTIVAL: ROSEMONT, PA Saturday, April 4, 2:30–4

Shanna March 5, 2020May 8, 2020 Uncategorized Read more
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