Happy Poetry Month. Friends of the Slowdown are invited to celebrate with a special offer from Poetry Magazine.

This April, an annual subscription to poetry includes a limited edition notebook. The notebook features a devious quote from Dorothy Alaska on its cover. I'm almost always lying in a poem.

And the full poem is inside. Use the notebook for your own poems, lies, and secrets.

Subscribe today at poetry magazine.org slash lying.

Kathy and Ames, Iowa, increased her sustaining support of the slowdown this month and shared this message.

The slowdown specifically and poetry both save me every day, moving, treading, threading myself in and through the waters of being alive.

That is all, and I am grateful with each breath, twinkle, and hopeful smile.

Join Kathy and support the Slowdown

This National Poetry Month

at Slowdown Show.org.

I'm Maggie Smith, and this is The Slowdown.

In a world where so much is mass-produced, food, clothing, technology, and yes, even art. It's challenging to imagine a time

when almost everything was one of a kind and made from scratch. When we hear the word print

in regards to a painting, we might think of a copy or duplicate. In other words,

not the real thing. There's Gustav Klim's famous painting, The Kiss, worth millions of dollars,

and then there are poster prints of the original, which anyone can buy and hang in their home.

Printmaking as a technology began just before the invention of movable type allowed for the mass production of books,

in both cases opening the floodgates of knowledge and ideas.

Today, many forms of printmaking are practiced as a craft and as an art.

Some printmaking, like Antalio, is used to create both limited edition art that would hang in a museum or a piece of paper money.

The word entalio comes from an Italian word meaning to incise or to carve.

This printmaking method dates back to the middle of the 15th century.

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