‘Oh baby, it’s too late now!’
The Influence of Cut-Ups on the Art of the Collage
Here are two collages. One is from a blogpost, “Visions at Midnight,” posted on May 27, 2025, and the other is an illustration, similarly styled, which appeared in The New York Times on Oct. 13, 2025.
Yelling His Fool Head Off
He was up early. He would not say under the cover of darkness,
because he had nothing to hide. He had something to bury. — William ‘Cody’ Maher
PARTISANS
A Graphic History of Anti-Fascist Resistance
Just in over the transom: An eye-catching collection of wartime tales of armed resistance to fascism edited by the comics writer and activist Raymond Tyler and the radical historian Paul Buhle. It’s a great teaching tool for students and for anyone else who could use a gripping introduction to the subject.
When the grim reaper comes to dinner . . .
. . . he hovers there like bad breath.
One-Strike Poems
Malcolm Ritchie’s Mountain on Top of a Mountain
Here is a magnificent book of short poems so rich in images, so clear and yet mysterious, so generous in feeling that, to steal a thought from a Donald Hall essay about Dylan Thomas, “form and shape and honey-in-the-mouth make small monuments of English literature.”
Pastel Colors, Geometric Compositions
It is rare to receive a gift in the mail as pristinely attractive as Phil Scalia’s immaculately produced ‘Utification,’ a chapbook of 28 remarkable photographs he took in Utica, New York.
Charming Landscape Sketches
Some poets have a talent for drawing. Mark Terrill is one. I am charmed by these sketches of his and have posted another as well. He makes no claims for them. They’re just one of his habits.
From Cold Turkey Press
‘Two Images. One Message. All at Once.’
Viewing these collages, you can feel your mind straining to integrate the images or to suspend the boundaries between the two. But you are immediately rewarded for your efforts, and the effect gets very close to Rimbaud’s “systematic derangement of the senses.” — Mark Terrill
Don’t Know What I Did to Deserve It
Steff Signer / Cabinet Music XII — Twelve More Bars to Go
A Great One Died Eight Years Ago
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‘He was the Shelley of his age and more.’ — Gerard Bellaart
In Berlin
A ‘Pandora’s Box’ of Life’s Struggles and Wonders
In several media — photography, video, poetry and live performance — Signe Mähler and William Cody Maher will introduce a world in which the personal and the universal intersect and mirror one another. The pair will explore how the story of a married couple can echo both global events and private memories — using the past as a lens to see and understand the present.
Steff Signer: Cabinet Music XI
Concept & Music: Steff Signer * Photography: Mario Baronchelli *
Acrostic Poetry: Florian Vetsch * Cornet Introduction: Markus Breuss *
Poetry Recitation: Jaswant Hanspal
Channeling Rimbaud’s Last Words
The last words of Arthur Rimbaud as imagined by Carl Weissner was published in a limited handmade edition. It is a small masterpiece — small only because it isn’t longer.
‘absent minds’ / ‘patient spring’ / ‘biting elbows’
Here are three of the images under consideration for a chapbook entitled ‘biting elbows,’ to be made from a collaborative effort by Gerard Bellaart and myself during a visit to his studio in Le Liboreau, France.
This Was My Song — It Is Ours Now More Than Ever
Long, long ago — in 1970 to be precise — the Berkeley radio station KPFA borrowed a collage of mine for the cover of its guide. I had titled it “This Is My Song,” thinking of it as an obituary for the 1960s.
Visions at Midnight: Pages from a Notebook
“At first glance these collages look like they are digitally produced images owing their provenance to artificial intelligence or photoshop manipulation. But they are actual paper collages, cut-and-paste handwork in the truest sense. What sets them apart is that they are two images, one message, all at once.” Mark Terrill