Edition 9 is on the way~

Edition 9 Arrives

on Friday, October 9
at the Tavern of Fine Arts
313 Belt Ave, StL 63112


Reading starts at 7pm

Jennifer Goldring  |  Sara Ross  |  & Ryan Krull

will read from Edition 9, past Architrave editions as well as some of their all-time-favs.

"When All Else Failed" by Jennifer Goldring

Click the image to read the full text of the poem, or purchase it here.

the Poet: 

Jennifer Goldring, originally from Arizona, is a writer and photographer based in St. Louis. She holds a BA Degree in economics. Despite her training she has given up on solving the world’s economic problems and now writes poetry, which she finds to be a much more meaningful endeavor. Her poetry can be found in Tar River Poetry, and her photography can be found at Juniper Tree Studio.

the Poem: 

The images in this poem are all grounded in the familiar wish to fly away to a simpler life, to assume an animal form where (we imagine) finding food would be our only concern. But the poet also uses her images to explore what lies beneath those wishes: not so much a need for escape or simplicity as the desire for agency and connection in a world “slippery with life and slippery/ with death.” The speaker swoops and dips, pins and rips, pecks and screeches, all of it self-directed, visceral, requiring a body. When at the last her raptor leaps back into the air, it’s a communion with the wind that carries her. She is renewed.

the Design: 

Title & Name: 30pt & 42pt Echelon 

Body: 12pt Optimus Princeps

Taking on a new form means leaving an old one behind. The words of the title especially read like the start of an epitaph, something written in stone to commemorate a person’s passage from one form to another. The typeface for the body needed to have a solid, block-like presence on the page and the kind of strong vertical stroke that survives weathering. Optimus Princeps is only available in small capitals, each letterform its own block, stacked and joined like precision-hewed stone. Echelon has more variance between thick and thin strokes, more curvature, but conveys a similar strength.

online ISSN: 2651-3801

Get Ready for Edition 8!

Edition 8 Gets Born

on Friday, March 20
at the Tavern of Fine Arts
313 Belt Ave, StL 63112

Reading starts at 7pm


This Edition has poems from:

Lindsay Ahl  |  Michael Bazzett 

Polly Brown  |  Moriah Cohen

Preston Craig  |  Edward Dougherty

Jennifer Goldring  |  Heather Lang

Tom Montag  |  April Salzano


The Tavern will have a jazz duo (piano/voice) later in the evening for those who'd like to linger.