Women’s Work. Poetry, collage, and embroidery by Madeleine Barnes. Paperback. Full-color. 28 pages. February 16th, 2021. ISBN 9781948800969.

Fusing original embroidery art, digital collage, and poetry that draws from the Public Domain, Women’s Work is a hybrid poetry chapbook that treads the frontier between the handmade and the digital. Each poem pulls text from sewing instructions and advertisements, layered over the scanned backs of the author’s original embroideries—messy threads that reveal traces of order. Exploring women’s labor, expression, sexuality, disobedience, and gender-based expectations of virtue, this chapbook pays tribute to women’s work and art, illuminating the dangers and adventures inherent to creating as a woman.