Skylight

Jane Vincent Taylor’s collection Skylight is a twenty-four poem narrative told in the voice of a woman — a teacher and poet — spending her final days in an assisted living facility. Though physically failing, she continues to read, observe, communicate, and dream.

This book is being printed at the University of Nebraska at Omaha Fine Press where Nolan Bennett assists Denise Brady to impose and lock up the pages in the bed of a Vandercook No. 4 and to impress the dampened sheets. The type is hand set 12 point Bembo and the paper is Arches wove. Four of the six eight-page signatures that will comprise the book have been printed. Denise is laying out the title page, working with an artist (to be announced soon) to finalize an accompanying image, and designing a non-adhesive binding. The edition of about 55 copies should be available in the fall of 2024.

Jane Vincent Taylor is a poet and teacher who thrives on collaboration. She has been poet-in-residence at Michigan State University several times, is a Virginia Center for Creative Arts Fellow, and taught creative writing at Ghost Ranch in New Mexico for fifteen years. Taylor has six books of poetry, one of which, The Lady Victory (Turning Point Press) was adapted for the stage by Ann Folino White at MSU. She curated Pencil Light, an Art and Poetry Exhibit, and The Hiding Place, Artists Working from Poetry at Artspace / Untitled in Oklahoma City. More about her work can be found at Janevincenttaylor.blogspot.com.