rec'd from Kait Moyers - January 2016

[chris wells]

I received the above items from poet/artist Kait Moyers, who goes by "mothpuppies" on Tumblr. To my knowledge, Kait is not (yet) an IUOMA member. We met on Tumblr, where she expressed interest in some of my poetry, so we decided to do an exchange. As you can see, the work above would be welcomed by many other mail artists, and I am sure if she so chose, she could gather quite a following here.

The pieces above include a collage, a handwritten poem "Twenty-Eight, Maybe Twenty-Nine" (originally published in Like All Good Poets, 2014, Analog Revolution Press), and two tiny zines that are essentially what in mail art would be referred to as TLPs (tacky little pamphlets). One appears to be a collection of band names gathered from Twitter, called #potentialbandnames.

The other, and my favorite among the pieces, is a beautiful and moving illustrated poem in tiny pamphlet form (2.75 in x 4.25) called "Taxidermist". 

I greatly appreciate having made a connection with Kait Moyers. Her Tumblr is:

http://mothpuppies.tumblr.com/