Author Archives: impartink

Gossamer Nevele Grimoire, by Derek Fenner – 36 pages, 9″x6″, two-color printing throughout, in letterpress wrappers – published in a limited edition of one-hundred copies, designed and printed at Impart Ink, an errant studio in Oakland and Santa Cruz, for Bird & Beckett Books (San Francisco) – available January 2020 – available now

Daily Vigs, by Micah Ballard – 36 pages, 8″x5.375″ in letterpress wrappers – published in a limited edition of two-hundred copies, designed and printed at Impart Ink, an errant studio in Oakland and Santa Cruz, for Bird & Beckett Books (San Francisco) – order now  

No Right Words, poems by Rod Roland – An Ensemble Edition, co-published by Bird & Beckett Books (San Francisco) and Ugly Duckling Presse (New York) – 32 pages, 7″x9.5″ in letterpress wrappers courtesy of Impart Ink, an errant studio in Oakland and Santa Cruz – available now.     

In the past couple of months I’ve been busy in the press. The second series of SLUG.DOCS has hit the streets: a trio of chapbooks by fellow candidates in the Creative/Critical concentration of the Literature doctoral program at UCSC. The first set in 2016 was the pair of Clean and Shiny, by Eric Sneathen andContinue reading “Three +3”

Today I sewed the first copy of Sunnylyn Thibodeaux’s What’s Going On, the latest chapbook from Bird & Beckett. The remainder of the edition remains to be sewn and the volumes trimmed, but I’m so happy to be putting this one out that I thought I’d go ahead and post a few images and makeContinue reading “What’s Going On”

This fall I’ve had precious little time to print, but I have managed to get a couple of projects underway, one of which came to fruition this week when I received 8 boxes of the 7th issue of my roughly annual magazine, AMERARCANA: A Bird & Beckett Review, which was guest edited this time aroundContinue reading “Amerarcana/Shuffle Boil #7”

I’ve been (un)reasonably busy of late, but/and have done a few things in the press. As a parting gift for Jackson Meazle, who has left our fair cities for some other, Southern clime, I printed this broadside of a poem for his grandmother. I also printed a pair of broadsides, commissioned by Matt Gonzalez, toContinue reading “Recent Projects”

I produced two more prints recently (“A : a” and “i : i : i”) as I continue my experiments with wood type at the Cowell Press on the UCSC campus. “A : a” was made from a single type arrangement, printed once, then turned 45 degrees and printed again, giving it the cascade effect. TheContinue reading “A and I”

At the tail end of summer I printed the covers for the sixth issue of my roughly annual literary magazine, AMERARCANA: A Bird & Beckett Review. I set the titles in Bulmer and used the back of wood type to form the grained block pattern. After a few delays getting the final interior text fileContinue reading “AMERARCANA issue SIX”

Continuing my work at the Cowell Press, (taking a cue from the previous print “o : O : o”) I used large lowercase wooden “e”s to make a sort of pinwheel/flower and small uppercase wooden “e”s to make a square/lattice, printing each in grey, turning 90 degrees to print again in grey, then swapped theirContinue reading “Further vowels”