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Suzi Banks Baum
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Artist/writer/mother in the Berkshires of western MA. National workshop instructor. Books, paper, marigolds. Fierce for women's voices.
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Summer is my book art season. My studio is not four season friendly-so I literally make books while the sun shines. Join me at the Berkshire Botanical Gardens in September for "Flowers on Paper." Xosbb
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Hello—Is A River Alive? is published today in the US by @wwnorton.com.
The beautiful jacket of living, writhing rivers is based on art by the great @stanleydonwood.bsky.social.
I feel deeply committed to the rivers, people & ideas in this book—& can’t wait to come to North America with it next week.
Day 85 of the 100 Day Project.
Bloodroot in Akua ink.
Suddenly the 100 Day Project feels short! Days 78-82 this week are sets of squares with circular centers removed. It started with a block from 2023 that I didn't like. Carved out the center on a day I only had a few minutes for my project. Thus started the week! I like these mix-n-match sets! Xos
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"This issue represents some of the best of what we’ve become as a magazine — a place that prizes heart over technicality, a team who prizes the whole dynamic process of story, an organization who welcomes the messiness of emotion,..."

Second anniversary!!

www.doesithavepockets.com/eddesk/may2025
May | A Second Anniversary Celebration — Does It Have Pockets
Dearest Readers, Well here we are two years in. This issue represents some of the best of what we’ve become as a magazine — a place that prizes heart over technicality, a team who prizes the whole dy...
www.doesithavepockets.com
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Hello—Is A River Alive? has been adapted as Radio 4’s Book of the Week next week.
Five episodes, read by me—& we’ve folded in field recordings & some beautiful Max Richter music.
First episode, Anima, broadcasts tomorrow at 11.45am.
You can listen here:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane, Episode 1: Anima
Robert Macfarlane explores an idea that changes the world – that a river is alive.
www.bbc.co.uk
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We celebrate two years of publications with our May issue!! This month I had help with creating three of the graphics.

One: The original butterfly photograph was taken by writer, Maureen Tai and inspired her to write her creative nonfiction, Breathless.

www.doesithavepockets.com/cnf/maureen-...
Congratulations!!!! Proud to have my works in Does It Have Pockets!
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@suzibanksbaum.bsky.social Thank you for sending your art!!
Made my return home that much more thrilling!

(I'd been keeping my fingers crossed hoping one day during the #100dayproject I'd open my mailbox to something this lovely!!) Art will keep us sane.
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Big book month for me. No Straight Road Takes You There: Essays for Uneven Terrain comes out next week...
"Make America Great Again" is making America bereft of important diverse cultural venues.
They turn slightly yellow. But they lend the sweetest lift of flavor.xos
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The word “journey” used to mean a single day’s travels, and the French word for day, jour, is packed neatly inside it, like a single pair of shoes in a very small case. Maybe all journeys should be imagined as a single day, short as a trip to the corner or long as a life in its ninth decade.
The Art of Arrival
I published this in Orion Magazine in 2014, about the environmental activist Jo Anne Garrett of Baker, NV, who would've turned 100 on April 30th. I wanted to pay tribute to her by republishing this (s...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
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Singing at Long Beach CA #handsoff #mayday rally today and concert tonight in celebration of Pete Seeger’s Birthday at UU Church of Long Beach! #wearethepower emmasrevolution.com/tickets-may-...
Apple blossoms make exquisite additions to herbal tea. Or freeze them in small ice cubes for glamorous cocktails in July.
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Singing at Long Beach CA #handsoff #mayday rally today and concert tonight in celebration of Pete Seeger’s Birthday at UU Church of Long Beach! #wearethepower emmasrevolution.com/tickets-may-...
Day 68 of the 100 Day Project. I go in phases-this week-doorsteps.

Xosbb
The Berkshire Art Center hosts a collage marathon to prepare work to celebrate #worldcollageday. Lots of cutting and gluing while spring rains fall.
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This is a very good point. About a very feeble excuse.