News from 3 Chairs
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Fall Reading from Three Chairs Publishing
Fall is the perfect time to reconnect with the quieter side of nature, to step back into the woods and take a deep breath, to watch how everything gracefully shifts into the next chapter. It’s a time to take stock, to slow down, to gather yourself for the colder months ahead. It’s time to read……
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See you at the ONE LOVE: GIVE PEACE A CHANCE NEW AGE FESTIVAL
See you at the ONE LOVE: GIVE PEACE A CHANCE NEW AGE FESTIVAL Please come visit SEVEN SISTERS ARTS and THREE CHAIRS PUBLISHING at the ONE LOVE: GIVE PEACE A CHANCE NEW AGE FESTIVAL on Sunday, August 15. The festival will take place from from 10am – 5pm inside and on the grounds of Avant…
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The Latest News
Back in the early 90s, I created a newsletter called The Latest News as a way to keep in touch with college friends and family. It had essays, quotes, photos, bits and pieces of personal news. I didn’t know it was a “zine” until I read about the zine phenomenon and learned about Mike Gunderloy…
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What is the force that moves us? Perhaps it’s music?
ZINES #IZM2021
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MANIFEST (zine): Divine Intervention
Issue #1, DIVINE INTERVENTION What is the force that moves us? Changes us? Propels us with such acceleration that we hardly recognize ourselves. Is it grief, heartbreak, indignation? Or joy, courage, determination? Perhaps it is DIVINE INTERVENTION — masked for our benefit as demon or angel or a hurried white rabbit who intrigues us just…
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Every body wants to be a cat…sing along!
Did you know that each issue of MANIFEST (zine) includes a Spotify playlist especially curated for readers? For the CAT LADY CONFESSIONS issue, I explore all things cat, with songs by artists like Dee-Lite, Peggy Polk, Psapp, Alexis Saski, Lee Ann Womak, and Janet Jackson. It’s purr-fect! Take a listen now!
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MANIFEST (zine): Cat Lady Confessions
Issue #2, CAT LADY CONFESSIONSPoor Cat Lady. She always gets a bum rap. No one ever makes fun of Ernest Hemingway, whose Key West home was filled with cats — and he of a certain age. His strapping action figure includes a typewriter and a shotgun. Cat Lady? She gets six cats, bed head, and…
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Do you remember the time…you fell in love with a Spotify playlist?
Did you know that each issue of MANIFEST (zine) includes a Spotify playlist especially curated for readers? For the IT’S ABOUT TIME issue, I had fun playing off the themes of time, time travel, and sci-f. It features an eclectic set of songs by artists like Styx, Michael Jackson,Imagine Dragons, Lana Del Rey, Green Day,…
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MANIFEST (zine)…It’s About Time
MANIFEST ZINEIssue #3, It’s About Time!Poems & More by Jen Payne We humans sure are creative with time, aren’t we? This arbitrary turning clocks backward or forward twice a year, assigning time to zones and lines and frames. I myself try to trick time, setting clocks randomly wrong and always fast as if I can…
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The Sound of Crickets
Did you know that each issue of MANIFEST (zine) includes a Spotify playlist especially curated for readers? For the CRICKETS issue, I had fun playing off the themes of silence, finding one’s voice, and creating from the heart. It features an eclectic set of songs by artists like Disturbed, Grace Carter, Barry Manilow, John Mayer,…
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WHAT’S THAT? Manifest (zine): Crickets
MANIFEST ZINEIssue #4, Cricketsby Jen Payne Storytelling is in our DNA says Brené Brown in her book Rising Strong. We share our stories because “we feel most alive when we’re connecting with others and being brave with our stories.” That process, she explains, causes our brains to release cortisol and oxytocin, the chemicals that “trigger…
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If you are a dreamer, come in…
If you are a dreamer, come in,If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar,A hope-er, a pray-er, a magic bean buyer…If you’re a pretender, come sit by my fireFor we have some flax-golden tales to spin.Come in!come in! — Shel Silverstein Indeed, if you are a dreamer, a wisher, a magic bean buyer…then you…
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