What Hands Can Do: The Drawing of Norma Cole

OMG Matisse by Norma Cole

Pencil and crayon on newsprint, 2014

New essay by Scott Hewicker published by the Poetry Foundation

Very grateful to the Poetry Foundation for the digital publication of my essay about the ruminative drawing practice of the Bay Area poet Norma Cole. Find it here with a folio of her poems and essays about Cole in the lead up to Dale Smith's new critical anthology on the poet, That Tongue Be Time: Norma Cole and a Continuous Making from University of New Mexico Press.

Book release is September 30 2025 at City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco.