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One of my all-time favorite blackout poems is now an affordable print at 20×200!
NEW 20×200 NEWSPAPER BLACKOUT PRINT: THE TRAVELOGUE
Very pleased to announce that my friend Jen Bekman and the rad gang at 20×200 are offering a new, affordable Newspaper Blackout print for sale!
Fun fact: this is the poem that Renee Montaigne read on NPR’s Morning Edition in 2008.
Never bought from 20×200 before? You’re gonna love it. Here’s an idea of what you’ll get when your print arrives. (You can also see the other 3 prints we have available through 20×200 in my store.)
Jen wrote a really lovely newsletter about the piece, some of which I wanted to share here:
I met Austin in person in Austin, TX, when I was there for SXSW, and was glad to get to spend time with him as he was on the brink of big things—spending time with artists on the brink of big things is one of the true joys of my job. His book—which you can pre-order on Amazon—was available in the conference’s bookstore. We went to dinner on the same evening that we both got to hold copies of it in our hands for the very first time. Austin was frazzled and flustered and flattered by the attention that was beginning to percolate. He was anxious about what was to come, and whether the book would sell, and what comes next when it does or it doesn’t.
There were four of us at dinner, each representing a compass point on the map of North America—California, Canada, New York and Texas—sitting at a picnic table on a scrappy patio beneath trees strung with Christmas lights, sipping sweet tea and eating barbecue and talking about poetry. I mean really talking about poetry, because as it turned out, all four of us are pretty big poetry nerds. It struck me then that for all the talk about what was to come, Austin’s accomplished some pretty amazing things already and those things deserved a good portion of the credit for convening us there that evening. And being there? That was pretty great.
With all the insanity going on in my life right now, the giveaways, interviews, reviews, Amazon rank, etc., I really needed to read this.
To remember what’s important.
As I told the group that evening: the best part (for me) of being an artist and a writer is the people I’ve been able to meet–totally awesome people–whether it’s in blog comments, or on twitter, or in person over BBQ.
I’m a very lucky guy. So big thanks to y’all, and thanks to Jen.
20% OFF PRINTS!!
Okay folks, if you’ve been holding out on buying a print of one of my newspaper blackout poems from 20×200, now’s your chance: they’re having a 20% off sale until noon on Sunday the sale has been extended until 2PM EST Monday!.
Enter the code RIDONK in Google Checkout for 20% off your print order. (See the details.)
That means you could own all three prints for less than $50. An absolute steal.
But even better, $50 prints are now $40, $200 prints are now $160.
The 20×16 inch “Agoraphobia” print looks really damned good, by the way. At $160, that’s the cheapest it’ll ever be. June isn’t THAT far away…it would make a perfect graduation gift. Way cooler than another copy of Oh! The Places You Will Go.
A bunch of folks have ordered the “How It Works” print for Valentine’s Day. (I’m in the 20×200 Valentine’s Guide under “Bookish Babe“–hell yeah, the only kind I like!) There are only 25 left of the $20 editions, so if you want one, better order one now! Only 12 left as of Sunday afternoon!
NEW 20×200 NEWSPAPER BLACKOUT PRINT: AGORAPHOBIA
Very pleased to announce that the gang at 20×200 are offering a new, affordable Newspaper Blackout print for sale!
Agoraphobia [ Buy now ]
This is one of my very favorites. It looks really good BIG, so if you can scrape up the dough, I’d encourage you to buy one of the bigger sizes.
Detail:
I think it’d also make a perfect graduation present, if you have a young-un in your life…for that first apartment, etc.
Read what Sara @ 20×200 has to say about the print
Never bought from 20×200 before? Here’s an idea of what you’ll get when your print arrives.
And of course, if you don’t already own them, there are two other Newspaper Blackout prints still on sale at 20×200:
YOU BOUGHT ART!
I’m thrilled to be getting e-mails and tweets from folks who are receiving their 20×200 prints!
We’ve sold over 100 prints since last Tuesday.
Here’s a “gratuitous unboxing” post from Mark Larson:
Love this twitpic by Marty Smith :
Also, as I mentioned on Twitter, for the 8×10 prints, you can’t go wrong with this cheap $10 RIBBA frame from IKEA:
The mat makes for a lot of nice whitespace around the poem.
Meg and I hung our (more extensive) collection of blackout prints in our library last weekend:
Would love to see more pics from y’all when you get your prints—where did you decide to hang them? E-mail me, tweet with the tag #newspaperblackout, or post in the comments.