Shankpainter 64 Release Party
Saturday, April 19, 2025
1-3 PM
Beech Forest, Provincetown
We invite you to join us for the release of Shankpainter 64 at Beech Forest. Our release party will take place at the trailhead of Beech Forest in Provincetown. We will gather in the vicinity of the picnic table that serves as an art installation by the 24th U.S. Poet Laureate, and former FAWC Writing Fellow (2001-2002), Ada Limón. On this picnic table is engraved Mary Oliver’s poem “Can You Imagine?” which was selected by Ada Limón for her signature project of “You Are Here: Poetry in Parks” which also included six additional installations at other national parks.
Cover art by Lucas Martínez.
About Shankpainter
The first issue of Shankpainter, a magazine of the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown featuring the work of current Fellows, was published in September 1970. For more than half a century, many of the Work Center’s Fellows have gone on to become the leading literary lights of our time. However, at the time of their Fellowships, each was selected as an emerging writer or artist of exceptional talent. In showcasing the work of each year’s Fellows (and occasionally, visitors), in a printed format, published annually as Shankpainter, an invaluable and fascinating archive of early work has been created.
Shankpainter 64 Editorial Team
Acie Clark is a trans poet from Florida and Georgia. They received their MFA from the University of Alabama where they worked for Black Warrior Review as the online editor. They are an Assistant Professor in the Film, Theatre, and Creative Writing Department at the University of Central Arkansas and they also teach at the Interlochen Summer Arts Program. Their recent work can be found or is forthcoming in Shenandoah, Foglifter, Passages North, and The Massachusetts Review. They are working on their first collection of poems.
Jason Ferris is a fiction writer and essayist from Maryland’s inner shores. He holds an MFA in fiction from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he was awarded the Truman Capote Fellowship, the James Patterson Writer Education Scholarship, and the Jeffrey and Kimberly Chapman Writing Fellowship. His work has been nominated for the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize, chosen as a finalist in the 2021 Carve Magazine Prose and Poetry Contest, and published in RiverCraft, Essay, and Carve Magazine. He is at work on his first novel.
- C. Mallon is a graduate of the University of East Anglia and holds an MFA in fiction from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She is a writer of literary fiction, working with a heavy emphasis on themes of masculinity, violence, and the shrapnel radius of serious trauma across communities and generations. Having taken early influence from modernist poetry and beat literature, she carries an abiding interest in the implicit interplay between the sound of a word and its meaning, endeavoring to construct prose that can be heard and felt, first, by the reader, furnished in sound and in picture a split second prior to conscious understanding. She works with a narrative focus on purgatorial places, characters damned and haunted, landscapes arresting and hostile, informal, dark spirituality, and sometimes the transformative spirit of a good dog. She prefers magic powers over straight realism. She is so thankful to be here.
- Lucas Martínez is a writer and translator with experience in labor organizing and teaching. He was born in San Bernardino County and raised primarily in Claremont on ancestral Tongva-Gabrielino land. He grew up speaking Spanish and English and considers both to be his native tongues. Martínez holds a BA from Lewis & Clark College and an MFA from the University of Virginia with a concentration in Poetry. They have received the Battestin Fellowship from the Virginia Bibliographical Society to study Jorge Luis Borges manuscripts at UVA’s special collection’s library in 2022. They have translated the work of Nicole Cecilia Delgado for a chapbook published by the Virginia Center for the Book. In Provincetown, he plans to work on translations as well as a manuscript of writing that includes collage, translation, essay, and poetry.
The Fine Arts Work Center is committed to making its events and services inclusive and accessible for everyone. If you need any accommodations to fully participate, please contact our Accessibility Coordinator, Susan Blood, at 508-487-9960, extension 106.
Both the Stanley Kunitz Common Room and the Hudson D. Walker Gallery meet ADA accessibility standards. If you need help accessing these spaces, please call us at 508-487-9960 ext. 101 before your visit.
This program is supported in part by the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod, Mass Cultural Council, Mass Development, and Provincetown Tourism Fund, and Provincetown Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.
