Expedition’s Blog
A compendium of projects, process notes, technical reference, and personal anecdote: welcome to Expedition's blog. These are stories about the things we make and what we think about while making them.
Poems Not Bombs: “We Lived Happily during the War” by Ilya Kaminsky
Ilya’s poem helps me hold contradiction. It gives voice to the fear, the guilt, the confusion that I still hold the same as my teenage self. And it gives me a hint of how to continue, in the middle of the bombing and falling and war-mongering and money-grabbing: “I took a chair outside and watched the sun.”
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Aid to Gaza via poetry prints
For the month of December, Expedition Press will donate 50% of sales from prints by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, Zeina Hashem Beck, and Mosab Abu Toha to Emergency Aid: Gaza Under Attack, a joint campaign of the Palestinian Feminist Collective x Middle East Children's Alliance.
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June Jordan by Sabina Smith
When I first read June Jordan’s “Poem about My Rights,” it was the first day of spring break. I was sitting at a coffee shop next to Expedition Press with my friend. We saw Myrna and she invited us over. On her wall in the shop there was a copy of the poem tacked up. I still can’t fully describe how powerful it felt, so full of emotion and honestly, I’d never read anything more mesmerizing.