On The Cover: Meat For Tea
I am excited and honored to have my art featured on the cover the most recent issue of Meat For Tea.
Meat for Tea is a fully independent, non-academic affiliated arts & literary journal that’s been physically in print for over 19 years. Meat for Tea also now includes a micro press and a podcast.
Meat For Tea is the recipient of the Best In Category award for Best Literary Journal in the 2019 62nd Annual New England Book Show from Book builders of Boston!
I highly recommend that if words are your thing to head over to the Meat For Tea website and grab an issue or three. You can get the digital version or the good old, hold in your hand, hard copy. (I’m partial to the hard copy.)
A Love Letter To Writers Everywhere.
When I was young, I wanted to be a writer.
I would spend hours in front of my vintage Royal typewriter banging out poems and short stories. I didn’t know anything about how the mechanics of writing. I just knew that I needed to express myself and that beautiful old typewriter was the perfect tool to do that.
When I was young, I wanted to be a writer.
I remember finding that typewriter at a garage sale for a few dollars and the woman asking me what I was going to do with it. “Write love poems to my girlfriend,” I answered.
When I was young, I wanted to be a writer.
I would package up all my stories and poems into manilla envelopes and send them to literary journals and magazines and in return I would get canned rejection letters on black and white letterhead from people who really knew how to write.
When I was young, I wanted to be a writer.
I lost that beautiful, old typewriter somewhere along the way over the years. It saddens me to think of it buried somewhere, in pieces, yearning to be let loose and run free in the hands of a true wordsmith. I like to think that it knew that my heart was a tangled mess and was rooting for me with each loud and forceful keystroke.
When I was young, I wanted to be a writer.
Three decades later and I now know that the best thing to come out of that typewriter was those love letters to my girlfriend. Those were the words that really mattered. Those were the words that bring us to now. I can hear her moving around downstairs and I love how familiar her footsteps sound on the wood floors. I think of the life we have built and without her there is none of this.
When I was young I wanted to be a writer.
Get A Print
The painting found on the cover of Meat For Tea is available as a high-quality art print.
This professional quality print is conveniently sized at 8x10 or 11x14 and is printed on acid-free, bright-white matte finish paper.
Each print is hand-signed and shipped direct from our studio in Grand Rapids, MI.
