Friend, you stand on sacred ground.

This is a printing office! Crossroads of civilization… …refuge of all the arts: Specifically, it’s the Museum of Printing in North Andover, Massachusetts where Abby Beckel, Rebecca Sareceno, and I… …spent last Thursday and Friday letterpressing hundreds of covers for Mary Hamilton’s chapbook We know what we are, forthcoming in July from Rose Metal Press: But it really did feel like all the things that this classic printing office poster says a printing office is supposed to feel like: fixed in time, having been verified in proof, etc. Thanks to the Museum of Printing for letting us use their Vandercook… …for the fourth year running, and to Rebecca for being such a skilled and intuitive designer. Stay tuned to the Rose Metal Press blog for more details about the printing process, and, of course, how to order one of Mary’s weird and beautiful chapbooks.