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BACKWORDS blog explores the intersection between presence and history. The blog is a platform that honors the moment of encounter that any one person experiences—with art, literature, music, performance, or place. Often, reflections fit multiple categories—the opposite of a news program or style blog, BACKWORDS is not preoccupied with immediacy. An event does not need to be current to be relevant, nor does a memory need to be close to its origins to hold its potency.

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Designer Spotlight: An Interview with Phillip Brown

As we move into December 2016, after a long year of enormous change (both good, bad, and in-between), our team here at Backwords Press is grateful for a mainstay: the poet and freelance graphic designer, Phillip Brown. Given that Phillip has worked with us throughout our 2015 and 2016 years, on two separate redesigns from our Inaugural Issue, and then again on the Spring 2016 Issue, he's long overdue for a spotlight here on the blog that showcases his particular talents and e

Designer Spotlight: An Interview with Maria Regine Cabbab

Near a month ago now, in July of this year, BACKWORDS Press re-released its Fall 2015 Issue—three short poems by three talented working writers—in collaboration with graphic designer, Maria Regine Cabbab. We had great fun with the redesign: getting to revisit these poems, to compliment them, to better carry their vision and presence into the world; but also to see how the poems might benefit, as individual pieces, as a complete issue, from being given a cohesive and artful vi