Red Door #28 - The TYPEWRITTEN issue

RED DOOR 28
THE TYPEWRITTEN ISSUE
FALL 2021
REDDOORMAGAZINE.COM
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RED
CHAD REYNOLDS
46-49
50-51
KEVIN STEBNER
38-41
FRANK
SINGLETON
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32-37
TIM YOUD

30-31
HAL WILDSON
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MARTIN ANDERSEN
JESSICA ESCH
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TABLE OF CONTENTS:
EDITORIAL .........................................................pg.6
FEATURED ARTIST:
Hal Wildson.........................................................pg.12 - 17
NATURE & CULTURE
International Poetry-Film Festival ............. pg.06 - 09
THE TYPEWRITER
REVOLUTION .....................................................pg.19 - 23
RAMBO, you’re a star
In memoriam ......................................................pg.24 - 25
IN THE EYES OF THE BEHOLDER
By Martin Andersen........................... ..............pg.30 - 31
TYPEWRITER ARTISTS:
TIM YOUD............................................................pg.32 - 37
FRANK SINGLETON.........................................pg.38 - 41
JESSICA ESCH...................................................pg.42 - 43
DANNI STORM...................................................pg.44 - 45
CHAD REYNOLDS.............................................pg.46 - 49
KEVIN STEBNER................................................pg.50 - 51
LEO K.....................................................................pg.52
BENJAMIN PAWESHI.......................................pg.53
LITTERATURCENTRUM KVU:
Laurence James - Self Taught Typer........pg.54 - 55
CHICANO TRIBUNE:
Anniversaries......................................................pg.56
POETRY................................................................pg.26 - 29
Michael Favala Goldman, United States
Cristian Forte, Argentina
Jack Thacker
Lani O’Hanton
Un Sio San, Macao
Hasso Krull, Estonia
Simon Nastac
Pankhuri Sinha, India
Pablo Saborio, Costa Rica/DK
Red Door Magazine #28
ISBN: 978-87-94003-04-9
Red Press, Copenhagen
Cover art by Hal Wildson
Back cover by Tim Youd
Illustrations in poetry segment by Richard Polt
Eyes of the Beholder art by Martin Andersen
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Editor in chief, designer & art director:
Elizabeth Torres (Madam Neverstop)
www.madamneverstop.com

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EDITORIAL
YOU’RE MY TYPE
The highlight of having an independent magazine
is being able to take it by the hand towards the
subjects one favors. There’s no need for neutrality
here. In my eyes, typewriters are dream machines.
Icons of design and progress, communication and
disconnection, these beautiful objects have traveled
with us through time and helped us tell our
stories, document them and turn them into art.
Typewriters have accompanied me since I wrote my
very first poem as a child, and through time became
a constant, especially since the lucky day when Red
Door correspondent David H.Rambo gifted me a red
Olivetti in New York as he prepared to move back to
Mexico. It was also him who helped me get a custom
painted pink and black Lettera 31 in Mexico and
baptized her “Kitty Olivetti”, teaching me typewriters
had nicknames, like good friends do. Ever since,
I fell down the rabbit hole and now own around 20
Olivettis, an insane number for those outside of the
global typewriter collector club, but quite a humble
number for those within. Then came the typewritten
art and the posters, ribbons and collectible objects,
which now fill my home in Denmark and occupied
my lockdown days with clickety happiness.
When I asked the readers of Red Door to submit
content for this typewritten issue, I fell even deeper
into this ink-stained wonderland, admiring the
many stories, letters, photos and art that arrived,
and the roles typewriters play in our lives, from revolutionary
strategies for reclaiming our privacy, to
aesthetic attraction and mental health support.
These are some of the many ways these analog
machines lighten up our lives, and our pockets. But
oh, they’re worth their weight in poetry.
From aiding writers to focus in their projects and
others to disconnect from the constant buzz of this
current social media-obsessed world, to helping
express art and new ideas, and even serving as a
tool for activism, direct action and poetic existences,
(I read in a sticker they even kill fascists), these
dream machines are keeping many of us sane.
Thanks to everyone who submitted content to this
issue, but especially to Richard Polt, for his interview
on the Typewriter Revolution (a bible for collectors
and dummies alike) and for the beautiful
illustrations that accompany the poetry segment.
Rambo, the Red Door correspondent, patreon supporter,
typewriter collector, poet and photographer
fell endlessly asleep at the beginning of October, so
this issue, which would’ve been his favorite, is dedicated
to his memory. I have lost my great collaborator
and conspirator in all things Olivetti, but through
him I have learned of a world filled with incredible
artists, dreamers and collectors, who keep giving
back and helping me find the way.
To typewriters, to Rambo, to poetry, and to each
one of you: Thank you. May poetry and ink always
be near.
Elizabeth Torres / Madam Neverstop.
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Madam Neverstop
& “Puma” Olivetti
Photo by Zarko Ivetic.

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NATURE & CULTURE
WHEN POETRY
BECOMES THE VOICE
OF REASON
Nature & Culture – International Poetry Film Festival
takes over Islands Brygge this November
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Performing arts and activism
often go hand in hand, used as
tools to deliver messages in need
of their voices being represented.
In this case, it isn’t a voice or a
minority, but an entire planet that
needs to be spoken for by those
inhabiting it… The main threading
line being poetry in interdisciplinary
media.
That is the concept behind
“Nature & Culture – International
Poetry Film Festival”, an idea
that began during early spring
as a collaboration between Kulturhuset
Islands Brygge and Red
Door Gallery’s project The Poetic
Phonotheque. The festival
received almost 300 films, from
over 50 locations, such as Egypt,
Kosovo, Argentina, Iraq, Taiwan,
Australia, as well as many from
Scandinavia.
The selection of 128 f ilms, made
by artist Christina Jonsson and
lecturer Solveig Willum, is divided
into the genres of Poetry Film,
Animation, Short Film, Experimental,
and Documentary, and will be
screened at Kulturhuset Islands
Brygge in Copenhagen on Sunday,
November 21 and on Sunday,
November 28.
The event includes an exhibition
titled “Colors for Climate” by international
artist Rita Howis, as well
as a collaboration with Extinction
Rebellion who will do a talk on
each day of the festival.
Posters for the festival by artist
Leonardo Flores, and the visual
identity of the accompanying
book, as well as the illustrations,
by artist Rikke Winkler Nilsson.

A number of the filmmakers will
arrive to Copenhagen to talk
about their productions and give
insight into their creative process
as part of the program, as
well as as recorded interviews
for Red Transmissions Podcast
airing on Tremella Radio.
The general public is invited to
follow Kulturhuset Islands Brygge’s
website and social media,
and to save the date of the FREE
admission festival, which will be
screened virtually and onsite at:
Kulturhuset Islands Brygge –
Islands Brygge 18, 2300,
Copenhagen S, Denmark
November 21 & 28, 2021
See the LIVE program on the following
pages and add your voice
to the Poetic Phonotheque’s
growing collection of audio and
video, which now includes over
200 files sent from all over the
world. You can record your poem
directly at:
www.poeticphonotheque.com
or send your files to
poetiskefonotek@gmail.com
The official location for the phonotheque
in Denmark is Kulturhuset
Islands Brygge, and in
Sweden Litteraturcentrum KVU/
Kultiver in Tranås.
If you are a cultural organizer,
have a poetry/film festival or
would like to find ways to collaborate
and house the phonotheque
in your city,, please write to the
email above.
www.kulturhusetislandsbrygge.kk.dk/
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FEATURED ARTIST
HAL
WILDSON
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Focused on art, urban interventions
and creative projects that cause
a response and interactions
amongst people, as well as the
documentation of the stories of
his culture, Hal Wildson (1991) is a
writer and visual artist from Golás,
Brazil, taking the art world by storm
through his typewriter art.
Combining intense key work,
hidden messages and wordplay as
well as abstract spaces, dealing the
subjects of social consciousness
and memory, Wildson has
created his very own aesthetic
that surpasses the traditional
typewritten portraits and enters
into the realm of masterwork of
exceptional technical process,
diverse materials and a wide range
of thematic expressions.
Eloquent in his use of social
media to promote his work and
activism, the videos on his facebook
and instagram are hypnotic
scenes of Olivetti typewriters
slaving away rhythmically, ignoring
the bell sounds and spilling
ink over the edge of each intricately
colorful A4 page, creating
a puzzle of dozens of brightly patterned
pages which, once reconnected,
bring forth scenes of
contrasting beauty which simultaneously
encourage important
conversations, revealing visual
capsules from historic moments
to moving narratives of his people.
But his messages aren’t passive
activism.
Hal Wildson uses these platforms,
with over 50 thousand
followers, as documentation of
his artistic practice, behind-thescenes
process, and messages
of support to the indigenous people’s
struggle in Brazil against
predatory economic exploitation,
inequality and the memories
of the ancestors.
The texts, often autobiographical
letters, articles of interest,
or historical notations typed on
paper, build a weft of letters and
words that get lost in the immensity
of thousands of characters
which together reveal imagery
but separate are stunning pieces
of art. “We are made by what we
remember and shaped by what
we forget” says the artist, speaking
on the subject of “reconstructing”
the future, which
inspires his work.
Series and works with titles
such as “Letters from infance
and memory” (left) and “Amidst
the Ruins” (the scene of the
child reading the book on the
table of contents of this issue of
Red Door), hopefully but sharply
speak of our responsibility of
remembering, as an act of reconstruction
and rebuilding a future
together.
instagram.com/halwildson
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A most exciting new project launched this summer in Denmark / Sweden, led by Red Door but
founded as a democratically run and managed community radio station, with a focus on literature,
sustainability, sound art, mental health and wellness, as well as performance arts and independent
music.
Tremella is the name of a family of fungi that is often ear-shaped, but also sounds a lot like Tremello,
a modulation effect that rhythmically changes the volume of your signal... It all just seemed very
fitting for the name of a radio station with the aforementioned interests.
There’s a little bit of everything, from the classic Orson Welles plays for radio to a show by the
International Centre of Women Playrights, several shows by poets, including Foreignness and
Friendship by poet Morten Ranum, Monday Madness by Claus Andersen, the Poetic Phonotheque
and Red Transmissions, as well as various sound art shows, talk shows about mental health and
wellness, and playlists by venues and DJs in our network. Tune in via: www.tremellaradio.eu
Or even better, join us with your own show! Write to tremellaradio@gmail.com for more info.
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RED TRANSMISSIONS PODCAST
THE TYPEWRITER
REVOLUTION
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An interview
with Richard Polt
by Madam Neverstop.
An interview released this spring
via Red Transmissions podcast
announced the open call for this fall
TYPEWRITTEN issue of Red Door,
with a very special guest, who spoke
to me from Ohio, with typewriters on
his desk and in the background, in
case there was any doubt on the subject.
Professor of philosophy, Associate
Dean of the College of Arts and
Sciences at Xavier University in Ohio,
author and typewriter collector Richard
Polt.
Originally from California and raised
bilingually due to his Spanish background,
Polt shares that his father
used a Smith corona so his upbringing
in Oakland was always surrounded by
typewriters. That is to say, we jumped
straight to the important subject.
Speaking of his collection, Polt shares
that he has approx. 300 typewriters,
which have always been a part of his
life but which he began seriously collecting
once he dug into the history of
early typewriters and the strange original
designs and concepts of these
machines, leading to him to create a
website called the Classic Typewriter
Page, which has served to connect
fanatics/collectors around the world.
The number of the collection is a bit
uncertain, as in reality his attempt to
cut down failed or was put aside for a
better cause, as apart from his personal
collection, his basement is full of
typewriters which he is restoring and
preparing for literacy programs for the
youth in his city.
The Typewriter Revolution came out
in 2015, a beautiful publication visually
and rich in content, which started
due to a typewritten blog, (a practice
called typecasting) which he started
in 2010 and which connected him to
typewriter users of the 21st century,
something which felt rebellious, inspiring
and hopeful, and which showed
him simultaneously all the negative
ways in which digital technologies are
occupying our lives.
He typed up the typewriter manifesto
about the rebellion and revolution
as a tongue-in-cheek text. This turned
into a movement of supporters which
he chose to encourage through the
book, which many of us consider “the
bible” for the typewriting subculture.
Polt shares that there are aren’t yet
book versions in other languages but
that there’s talks of releasing it in Italian.
I In addition to this publishing project,
Polt has also been publishing academic
texts, but there is now a whole
other collection of typewriter-themed
books, a series called Cold Hard Type,
to encourage people to use their typewriters
through various themes, such
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as fiction, horror and time travel, which
invite people to share stories, poems,
art and texts written on typewriters.
I asked Polt about the strange stories
involving typewriters in our real
world, such as the German government
beginning to use typewriters
once they realized the US was spying
on their digital communications,
and he shared that during OCCUPY
Wall Street there were events occurring
of people lending their typewriters
to the crowd to share their experiences
and thoughts, in part because
of the novelty, in part because of the
anonymity. “It’s a sort of combination
of privacy and public communication”
he explains, which is useful for activism,
while also remaining connected
to practical or more romantic matters.
“Love and friendship letters are very
common, just the fact that you and
the receiver are the only people who
have ever seen this, because it’s one
and the same object, same ink, which
is no longer true in digital technology.
It is a single copy rather than multiple
copies that who knows who else can
read... it creates a self-consciousness
about others looking over your shoulder.
Just the act of sending a physical
object that took trouble and time to
create is an expression of care, even is
the content is a trivial ‘Hello, How are
you?’, people really appreciate them.”
Other uses in our current international
community in public spaces, such as
poetry by request, allows for conversations
amongst strangers and new
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connections, writing on typewriters to
disconnect completely, and of course
art, as you can see long these pages.
The resurgence of typewriting, Polt
explains, is probably due to the extensive
expansion of digital communication
in our lives, so that these typewriters
aren’t just part of the subculture
but currently playing an active part in
writing our stories.
Typewriters history is connected to
many aspects of our own society,
from war to feminism, as some of the
first opportunities for women to enter
the workforce were due to the need
of secretaries in offices and government
places. Polt explains that he isn’t
just collecting typewriters because of
their aesthetic beauty. He is interested
in the process of cleaning them, fixing
them, using them, understanding
them mechanically, looking into the
history of the people who made them.
This episode of the Red Transmissions
Podcasts can be heard on the
website of Red Door magazine, as well
as on iTunes, Spotify, and most podcast
providers.
Special thanks to Richard Polt once
again for this interview, as well as for
the typewriter photos in this magazine
and the beautiful illustrations included
in the poetry section of this publication,
which were originally created
for the Typewriter Revolution, but having
not made the cut, have found their
new home within these pages.
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IN MEMORIAM
The streets of the city
grab me
I go out to step on them for no reason
I find myself
I hide in the masses
I lose myself in their presence
desire
is erased
I go on by pure inertia
day by day I consume
it consumes me
the truth is so far away
I try to understand
my own fiction
words that form lines
lines that form streets
I step on again
I flee searching
I seek to flee.
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DAVID (H)
RAMBO
The chair and Penny Olivetti
My dearest:
Death is knowing that today you are
you
And tomorrow you’ll be
an uncomfortable chair.
Nomad, amateur artist and experimental-ego,
Rambo sealed his entrance to the
world on the 47th day of 1983; He participated
in countless poetry and cultural
intervention events internationally and
was a correspondent of Red Door Magazine
since 2012. He dedicated his life to
enjoying the world, typewriters and his
friends, to art, hyper-absurdist alterations
of social spheres, professional translation
(Spanish, English), and writing. He validated
his return ticket to the cosmos on the
276th day of 2021 and is already gravely
missed by those who loved him.
Here I begin,
from the middle.
I open pages
among a past
full of a person long gone,
I illuminate a light year;
I come to a point:
pause,
coma,
return.
Methodical time machine:
a past;
the present.
See?
Comfort resides in a free space,
a small intimate space
that relaxes the moments,
caresses the seconds
floats in the unknowing,
flirts with the arrival of Morpheus;
dreams loose in space;
cushions the walls:
embraces.
So many nights supporting my
weight;
comfort.
Thank you chair, for everything.
Sincerely yours:
Penny Olivetti
Left: illustration by Madam Neverstop
Right: self-portrait.
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POETRY
Privilege
Michael Favala Goldman
United States
Trees are not greedy.
They collaborate,
make just enough leaves.
Cheetahs are not greedy.
They don’t hunt
any more than necessary.
I am not greedy.
I just don’t know the difference
between need and want.
A delightful
misunderstanding
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Illustrations by
Richard Polt.
Cristian Forte
Argentina
I never thought about
the particles that don’t come out of
power plants and automobiles
it was an astounding place
full of wonder, magic, and exquisite personal
style
I was delighted by the decorations and the way i
was treated
and the people i was travelling with were also
delighted
I had been using my hydrating lotion for normal
skin types
but when i set off for home for christmas
to visit my family, i immediately noticed that my
skin
was again getting irritated
I never thought about cosmetic pollution
the particles that don’t come
from power plants and
automobiles

What is grass?
There’s a god in the grass
and it tells us our purpose
which is to tear it all up, bit by bit.
All day we take our communion.
We inhabit a holy carpet.
There’s a voice in the trees
and a drone in the sky. To eat,
to sleep, to stand and try to die
is our purgatory. It’s easy enough
to say it – ‘weather’ is a verb.
We go along with rituals.
We entertain possibilities.
Dust rises. Fresh grass. We know
where we are going and will go
in our time – unless pushed.
We are held. We are patient.
The operation is tolerated.
Resistance is offered – otherwise
it would be obvious. We are
handled. We struggle. We dig in.
There is a thing we learn and
it comes to us naturally.
Jack Thacker
United Kingdom
Going to the Well
Lani O’Hanlon
Ireland
Soon
we return freely to the green
of our eyes, of our minds
and lower our heads to it.
We understand how to suffer –
maggots, blindness, foot rot, worms,
loneliness, yes, and mastitis.
We are, despite it all, used
to it all and its violence.
Three wells,
as in a fairytale;
the first well is dry,
the second well is dry,
the third well is dry.
A woman asks if there is a well committee
someone to tell us where the water went.
We are thirsty then,
desperate for a drink.
A woman climbs down into the well
begins to dig with an old tin cup.
We wait for a trickle
some hint of moisture to wet our lips
with whatever cure is here.
She holds it up,
we lean forward to see
but in the cup there is only money.
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POETRY
I dreamt I was watching
a disaster film
Un Sio San
Macao
Translated by Jeremy Tiang
I bought popcorn and picked my seat –
slightly left of center –
No one had brought a kid along.
Anyway, this wasn’t real.
Close up: a Mumbai track shoe factory,
a child worker.
He’s learned Math, the English alphabet,
this world and the third world,
the bleeding of his fingers a red pen correcting
his worth.
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The woods
Hasso Krull
Estonia
Translated by Adam Cullen
It’s very still here today.
No saws rumble today, no harvester whines,
there’s no one here. Not even trees.
Can anyone spot an animal anywhere?
No. No animals tread here.
It’s long since any beasts have prowled this
place,
not even werewolves. Only
the forest.
In this forest, there’s not even wind.
This forest doesn’t rustle. No twigs snap,
no leaves fall, no splintered trunks squawk,
not a single bird sings anywhere.
This is an Estonian forest.
Listen to the sound of silence. Listen in
silence.
Listen to the way it softly whines, to the way
it whimpers,
to the way it wishes to say something but
can’t,
to the way it buzzes like a mosquito.
Listen to the booming of silence. The rustling
of silence.
It haunts you.
Haunting silence. Haunt, golden beast.
The frozen river, in its bottomless depths
completes its burial rites.
Wide shot: the scorching winds blow,
carrying
resounding farts from corn-fed cattle.
At this moment, someone called out:
This is blatantly an art house film!
This storyline is so dreary—
You’re killing me here.
The film drew to a close, a hundred
years had passed.
Production credits began their crawl.
We slowly departed.
Everyone seemed immensely satisfied
That their names appeared right at the
end.
Illustrations by
Richard Polt.

Return
Simona Nastac
United Kingdom
At the end, you handed me an apricot,
originally from Asia, after Plinius.
A thousand years later,
I smashed stone with stone
on the block’s stairwell.
The words leaned, arbitrarily,
to the left.
A thousand years later still,
flowers blossom before leaves -
the only gesture in a city
extinct.
Spring again
Pankhuri Sinha
India
Waiting to burst into a million colours
Spring is jutting out of my shoulder blades and
finger tips!
Oozing out of this mother earth, the ground we
walk on, its ready to take the town!
The wind told me and turned into breeze
Red winged black bird asked me to keep a
secret!
The buzzing was of bees and the silence of
migrant butterflies !
Its daffodils and tulips will sing for you
Grass will bloom yellow but before that
muddy patch wears green
lets look up at the sky clearing,
Trees blushing
redness sweeping the fleshy branches!
I imagine the poplars
The maple show, the chandeliers of the willow
Tell me o dears! Of the first day, the sun melted
the snow!
There is spring here too
Surrounded I am!
Imported might be some flowers, but who
cares
How organic is Spring?
Its here and real, native, authentic
The pollen laden, tangy scented, mango blossoms
Filling the air and your senses!
But this cuckoo call from the other hemisphere?
You ask me, what is it dear?
How can I forget, I was just going to plant
apple trees?
There are many things you can forget
But not the way, cherry blooms
Pears dangle and the path leads straight
To that house from the lake
that was once yours!
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Tread
and by treading
we will expand
and by proliferating
we will accelerate
and with this speed
we will compete
and with this voracity
we will possess
and from these resources
we will devour
Poem: The Future Question by Pablo Saborio
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and after this destruction
we will question
the meaning of dust
and the purpose
of ash.
Illustration by: Martin Andersen Instagram.com/skyggelaegger
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OLYMPIA
Tim Youd is a performance
and visual artist working in
painting, sculpture, and
video. To date, he has
retyped 66 novels at various
locations in the United
States and Europe. Residencies
at historic writers’
homes have included William
Faulkner’s Rowan
Oak with the University
of Mississippi Art Museum
(Oxford, MS), Flannery
O’Connor’s Andalusia with
SCAD (Milledgeville and
Savannah, GA), and Virginia
Woolf’s Monk’s House
(Rodmell, Sussex).
His work has been the subject
of numerous museum
exhibitions, including
CAMSTL, The Frances
Lehman Loeb Art Center
at Vassar College, Hanes
Art Gallery at Wake Forest
University, The New Orleans
Museum of Art, Monterey
Museum of Art, Hemingway-Pfeffer
Museum,
Museum of Contemporary
Art San Diego, University
of Mississippi Art Museum
at Rowan Oak, and the
Lancaster Museum of Art
and History.
TIM YOUD
He has presented and
performed his 100 Novels
project at the Ackland Art
Museum, Weatherspoon
Art Museum, Art Omi, Los
Angeles Contemporary
Exhibitions (LACE), and
LAXART, and retyped Joe
Orton’s Collected Plays at
The Queen’s Theatre with
MOCA London. He lives
and works in Los Angeles.
www.cristintierney.com/
artists/30-tim-youd
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SMITH CORONA
Born in Ohio, Frank Singleton
studied history at Ohio State and
philosophy at the State University
of New York at Buffalo. He had little
interest in art until after college he
hitchhiked around Europe for a
year and spent much of that time
visiting art museums. His passion
for typewriter art began on a holiday
Thanksgiving in November, 1983.
While waiting for a turkey to come
out of the oven, he pulled out his old
college typewriter—which is still in
use today—and on impulse began
typing designs. Singleton’s typework
is in the permanent collection of
the Perez Museum in Miami and
the Sackner Archive in Iowa. His
typework was prominently featured
in the book The Art of Typewriting by
Ruth and Marvin Sackner.
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UNDERWOOD-OLIVETTI STUDIO 44
JESSICA
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Jessica Esch is a writer and illustrator who
uses art, craft, and good humor to spread
ideas and build community. For more than
20 years, her concise yet profound words
and clean images have expanded people’s
hearts, minds, and way of being in the world.
She co-founded and co-owns Shinebolt.
Esch lives happily in Portland, Maine. Tour
Jessica Esch’s Fill in the Blanks exhibit at
Shinebolt:
shinebolt.com/collections/fill-in-the-blanks).
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5 POEMS

DANNI
STORM
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TYPEWRITTEN ART
CHAD
REYNOLDS
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Chad Reynolds is a poet and visual artist from
Oklahoma City, OK. He is the co-founder of Penny
Candy Books, an independent book publisher
that highlights diverse issues and life experiences
in children’s books. Reynolds was once an
insurance broker and an English and composition
teacher and adjunct professor. He holds a Master
of Fine Arts in poetry from Emerson College in Boston,
MA.
Reynolds is the author of five chapbooks of poetry
and a co-founder of Short Order Poems, a performance-art
poetry experience that used typewriters
to create poetry on demand for strangers. His
typewriter art is held by private collectors across
the U.S., as well as in the U.K. and Australia, and
has been featured or is forthcoming in ArtDesk,
Mikrokosmos Journal, Afternoon Visitor, ToCall
Magazine, and Ugly Duckling Presse’s Second
Factory Magazine.
You can see more of his work at his website
www.typewriterart.com
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REMINGTON PERFORMER
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KEVIN
STEBNER

Kevin Stebner is an artist, poet and musician from Calgary, Alberta. He produces visual
art using old videogame gear, and produces music with his chiptune project Grey-
Screen, post-hardcore in his band Fulfilment, as well as alt-country in the band Cold
Water. His first book of poems, Sunshine Policy, is out from Straw Books. Stebner has
spent the quarantine prparting two new manuscripts, his first novel, and a large amass
of typewriter visual poems, many of which are appearing in chapbooks (recently from
Blasted Tree, NonPlusUltra, No Press). He is also the proprietor of Calgary’s best bookstore
that’s in a shed, Shed Books.
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SMITH & CORONA
LEO K.
Leo K. was raised in Port Elizabeth, NJ
on Marshall Street. Being Medically diagnosed
with severe depression, Anxiety,
and A.D.H.D. Leo K. had struggled to stay
focused and motivated throughout his
college experience. Writing was more of a
necessity than a hobby as he began keeping
both Journals and well-documented
notebooks to retain information.
Over the years Leo K. has held several
jobs to help cover the expenses of his prolonged
associate’s degree. Many years
after enrolling in college he eventually
graduated with a respectable GPA and
2 years of field experience. Unfortunately,
both writing and art were both casted
aside in an attempt to hold employment.
During the global pandemic of 2020, Leo
K. was reminded of his 1949 “Smith and
Corona Manual Typewriter” that he had
acquired when he was 7 years old. After 2
days of dusting off the machine and lubricating
all the parts he began typing his first
adventure novel “The Game Operation
Bonsai”. Leo K. also wrote a guided planner
published under the name “;Personal
Assessment Logbook” In response to the
coronavirus offering organizational assistance
to both work from home employees
and students during the global pandemic.
“Having a learning disability makes writing
a bit of a challenge, but my Smith and
Corona typewriter has helped to improve
both my grammar and eliminate most
modern distractions long enough to make
writing possible.” -Leo K.
Follow his life and writing:
@simple_man45 on Instagram.
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BENJAMIN
PAWESKI
ROYAL
Although Benjamin Paweski does not
consider himself an artist, he responded
to Red Door’s typewriter call to share
the work he has created during the last
18 months, while being in a “bubble”. He
explains that he has a severely compromised
system, and bought himself a typewriter
on eBay at the beginning of 2020
to have something to play with... quickly
realizing that he didn’t have much to write,
but really enjoyed the process of typing,
which then turned into typewriter drawings.
An educator originally from Arizona,
Benjamin can be followed at: twitter.com/
benniehowie
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BY DOMINIC WILLIAMS
I live in a small fishing village in west
Wales, Glan y fferi, or Ferryside. The
village lies on the edge of the mudflats
of the Tywi estuary. Steep hills
rise quickly from the east and west
banks of the river’s mouth. The sunset
silhouetted Llansteffan castle
imposes its view from the headland
across from Ferryside and above my
village perched on the top of the hill
is another, Llansaint. Over centuries
the location of Llansaint has been
as impermanent to the pencil of the
cartographer as the tide from Carmarthen
Bay, into which three rivers
flow, the Taf and the Gwendraeth
being the sisters of the Tywi. This
landscape limits internet access
in our village as it does in much of
rural Wales. During the pandemic
in 2020 the spoken-word open-mic
that I have hosted in The Queens
pub in Carmarthen took to the airwaves,
the poetry and zoom revolution,
not in Llansaint however.
Llansaint is the home of one of my
dearest friends, the poet Laurence
James. Laurence has been one
of the most stalwart supporters of
our spoken word events since they
began in 2010. Weaving his way by
foot in summer and by public bus in
winter.
Laurence is not a traditional poet;
he is the tradition. As a young man
he travelled to the Greek island of
Paros where he served an apprenticeship
with his hero and mentor
the Irish poet and translator Desmond
O’Grady. O’Grady … was arguably,
with the exception of Yeats,
the most international of twentieth
century Irish poets. (Obituary: Irish
Independent August 2014). Laurence’s
bardic education, an immersive
lived experience on Paros and
across mainland Europe finally led
him to an extended creative period
in Berlin.
Laurence has never owned a computer
or a smart device, never had
an email address and is a long-time
devotee of the radio. He has a career
in translation and poetry publication
outside Wales and the village
that has been his home for so many
years, but his craft is analogue; his
communication the postal service,
I am the owner of several precious
letters; his poetic tools longhand
and his typewriter.
Making unreliable connections
at cross-roads of narrow winding
Welsh lanes, travelling ten miles to
arrive at the event with just enough
time to spare for a cwrw bach, a
small beer. The concept of ‘poems
and pints‘ was not new to Laurence,
he already had over a decade’s history
of organising a monthly poetry,
story-telling and folk music night at
The Kings pub in Llansaint. What
is alien to Laurence is the notion of
social media, email and word processing
packages.
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SELF
TAUGHT
TYPER
This recent poem from Laurence
tells of youthful adventures in his
early use of a typewriter.
Laurence is the son of a minister
and a shared experience we have
as boys is typing up the weekly parish
newsletter. My typewriter was
electric, Laurence’s never, always
mechanical and, these days, he has
even put aside that technology,
reverting to longhand in his outdated
desk diaries.
A Z makeshift fingering method all my own
I’m ahammering out the alphabet at Dad,
Padres Parsonage desk
which office hours
have witnessed the birth of sermons
underlined prompts for a Lord’s Day airing at
the pulpit launch
of each missal
and once a month the creation via his hand
cranked duplicator contraption of vicar’s
parish notes
hypnotic the power my new medium has to
take a thing out of itself
out of my hand for itself and put it, so to
speak, out there
nice and impersonal like
that sudden readability of it all astounds
soon I’m flying up, down and across the tiers
of letters making those
clarifying marks of the grammarian
playing the numbers game
going through hoops of scale arpeggio and
triad like a training church organist
rehearsing the prentice piece
in due course naturally
as vocabulary selection I can spell
even an entire first line
a bell on the thing going off in recognition
here and there inevitably the family name
appears
and my own three fore names
the last the call name
with a u
Laurence, Lawrence James
black on white needless to write but
using the full two-tone band width one flick
of a colour coded lever also the red
under one spool of eight up ribbon
unreeling it’s twins spool reeling back in
à la Beckett
à la last tape
of crap
and I did notice that loudhailer gizmo of
yours
do you think one day
I could have a go on it?
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The Red Door
Network:
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Red Door Magazine is a quarterly Arts
& Culture publication meant to document
the work of creators everywhere,
as well as facilitate new conversations
on important matters for our communities
in a local and international platform,
through the linking of themes, collaborations,
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can expand the reach of independent
voices and remarkable projects.
Red Door counts with the help of correspondents
in Australia, Mexico, the US
and Denmark.
Red Door also functions as a gallery
and independent space in order to serve
as a platform for the same purposes.
In expanding its reach, Red Door also
counts with:
-A podcast called the Red Transmissions,
where creatives, activists and cultural
organizers share their process, projects
and initiatives.
-A Poetic Phonotheque, which serves
as an online collection of poetry in many
languages in the voice of its authors, created
to break the barriers of distance and
facilitate free access to poetry in households
around the world.
-A publishing project called Red Press,
which focuses on the publication of
poetry (and illustration) in translation.
Bilingual books, handmade, limited edition
books.
-The Red Door Gallery located in the
cultural hub of Copenhagen on Møllegade,
Nørrebro, where talks, workshops,
exhibitions, performances and other
events are often on the calendar, as well
as limited edition books and prints, original
art, miniature books and other art
related products, often with a focus on
poetry. See them also on the online shop:
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The Partners:
Litteraturcentrum KVU:
Litteraturcentrum KVU is an international
literary initiative we often promote as
a league of publishers in Scandinavia.
Red Door is published through this
collaboration.
Kultivera
operates international cultural programs
that are physical, social and creative;
that stimulates and inspires both the
artists and the local community. It is the
organization in charge of the Tranås
Fringe Festival and their curriculum of
activities can be seen on the issues of
the Red Door Magazine.
Write4Word:
Is a West Wales community organization
with a focus on language arts. Its
director, Dominic Williams, is a frequent
correspondent of Red Door.
La Libélula Vaga:
is a spanish literary magazine published
in Sweden documenting the work of
poets all over the planet, as well as
encouraging translations, talks and
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Keith FM:
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Transmissions Podcast airs on the 1st
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Podcast is also on rotation, as well as a
selection of its poets / musicians.
Kulturhuset Islands Brygge
This cultural space in Copenhagen
is now the headquarters of the Poetic
Phonotheque, and co-organizer of
Nature & Culture - International Poetry
film festival.

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