an artist-run very small press, by amy bornman
publishing zines and prints, and all sorts of written ephemera. poems, essays, diaries, commonplace books, handbooks, guides, workbooks. a little body of work like a little body of water, with animals and plants. a small press like a personal ecosystem, verdant and full of possibility.
Amy’s second full-length poetry collection,
Broken Waters: Poems
In Broken Waters, poet Amy Bornman navigates the uncharted territory of a first pregnancy and an unfurling crisis of faith by turning to confessional poetry, marking pregnancy’s long slow weeks, and the text of the Bible in alternating turns. By following themes of fertility and birth in the Bible, Bornman finds a deep and wide guide through unfathomable change, responsibility, and love. As ancient mothers affirm and challenge her embodied experience, Bornman stands in the tension of all that shifts around her — global pandemic, climate crisis, marriage, friendship, body, faith, and fear. Broken Waters is a bold and bewildered prayer, and a raw shout on the edge of new motherhood. “I think I want to be transformed.”
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How to Sew Clothes
Cowritten with Amelia Greenhall, with photography by Christine Armbruster and Tara Bennett. Published February 28, 2023 by Abrams.
How to Sew Clothes will help you start from scratch or reignite your excitement for sewing—so you can make clothes that are personal, well-fitted, and versatile.
Set up your studio, gather your tools, learn some simple techniques, and explore your sewing machine. Using the envelope full of patterns (bust circumferences 32-62” / 81-157 cm) and the instructions included in this book, start sewing bags, plus a box top, a dress, and a cardigan coat or jacket that will fit you exactly right. We’ll tell you everything you need to know to sew your own clothes and bags— and how to have fun in the process.
Amy’s first book of poetry, an award-winner in the 2020 Paraclete Press Poetry Prize,
There is a Future: Poems
There is a Future, an award-winner in the Paraclete Poetry Prize competition – grew from a yearlong project to read the Bible daily, and write daily poems in response to the readings—to honor the text by wondering about, and struggling with, it. By engaging particular passages of scripture across the Old and New Testaments directly, these poems imagine new dimensions of the text, and make vivid connections to the world as it is now and to the author’s own life—emerging at year’s end with new hope in a future that at times feels impossible, as the days pile on days and the text’s enduring questions continue to ring.
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