Eric Raanan Fischman | Denver Quarterly Letterpress Broadside

Three Gates
written by Eric Raanan Fischman

Letterpress broadside, two-color hand-printed
Edition of 60, signed and numbered
Broadsides are 7” x 13” approximately

This poem first appeared as a letterpress broadside produced in a collaboration between Denver Quarterly and Rhiannon Alpers of Gazelle and Goat Press for the autumn session poetry event held in November of 2023. Poems were selected by Denver Quarterly editors. Poets participated in letterpress printings at Gazelle and Goat Press thanks the generous contributions of Denver Quarterly. The broadside was produced in an edition of 60 signed and numbered prints.

ABOUT THE POET:

Eric Raanan Fischman is an MFA graduate of Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics in Colorado. He is an instructor for the Beyond Academia Free Skool, which hosts monthly writing workshops at the Boulder Public Library plus a 1-2 week free summer program, and has also taught for the Firehouse Art Center in Longmont and Mi Chantli in Boulder. His work has appeared in Bombay Gin, the Boulder Weekly, Twenty Bellows, New Feathers Anthology, Jasper’s Folly Poetry Journal, Voicemail Poems, and many more, as well as in local community fundraising anthologies from South Broadway Ghost Society and Punch Drunk Press, benefiting Denver Food Rescue and the Mutiny Information Cafe. He also curates the Boulder/Denver metro area poetry calendar at boulderpoetryscene.com. His first book, Mordy Gets Enlightened, was published through The Little Door in 2017. Visit his website at ericraananfischman.com

About Denver Quarterly Magazine:

Denver Quarterly is the literary journal housed in the Department of English & Literary Arts at the University of Denver. Founded by novelist John Williams in 1966, the journal has had work honored in the Pushcart Anthology, "The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories," "The Best American Short Stories" and "The Best American Poetry."

Denver Quarterly is a publication that embodies the wide-ranging possibilities for the worlds from which writing may come, and the worlds our authors imagine and write into being. We welcome the work of writers and artists from marginalized communities, identities, and traditions, or those who work with differing abilities, or who may be non-professional writers, or who have otherwise been traditionally excluded from the space of literary journals.