Author Archives: Dale Hobson

Illustrations for “A Drop of Ink”

I’ve neglected to give a little love to my illustrator here. A Drop of Ink contains four wood engravings by Greg Lago, proprietor of Winged Bull Studio in Clayton, NY. Greg’s work has a fantastic narrative feel. The four engravings … Continue reading

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Books are in now–Yay!

Copies of A Drop of Ink arrived in my mailbox on Saturday, giftwrapped in blocks of ten. It was just like Christmas, except frustrating, because all the local stores were closed for the long weekend. But copies can now be … Continue reading

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Waiting for the mail

In the time since I was sixteen, I have disseminated poetry in newspapers and little literary magazines and anthologies, on broadsides and in slender chapbooks. I have declaimed poetry in the back rooms of liquor resorts, from pulpits, in bookstores … Continue reading

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A taste of A Drop of Ink

Here’s the poem from which the book title and section titles come, the last poem, as is fitting for an Afterword: Afterword I have come to you in the way that poets do— up from paper, out of ink, into … Continue reading

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