Gate Posts with No Gate: The Leg Paint Project

by Peter Waldor

Gate Posts With No The Leg Paint Project is a collaboration between poet Peter Waldor and fourteen visual artists working in various mediums. The project began with Waldor's collection of poems establishing a simple "notes to a painter for a series of paintings on the millipede's legs." After sharing the poems with the artists, leaving them to interpret them as they pleased, over 30 individual artworks were completed. They were then compiled into a book designed to showcase the works alongside the collection of poems that served as inspiration.

114 pages, Paperback

Published March 15, 2018

About the author

Peter Waldor’s books include State of the Union (Kelsay Books), The Unattended Harp (Settlement House), Who Touches Everything (Settlement House), which won the National Jewish Book Award for poetry, The Wilderness Poetry of Wu Xing (Pinyon Publishers), and Door to a Noisy Room (Alice James Books). His book-length poem, Leg Paint, appeared in Mudlark. His poems have appeared in many journals, including The American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Iowa Review, Colorado Review, Mothering Magazine, and on Poetry Daily and Verse Daily. Waldor was poet laureate of San Miguel County, Colorado from 2014 – 2015, and lives there and in Short Hills, New Jersey. He has worked as an executive in the insurance business for thirty years: for a small family insurance agency with his father and brother; at his own agency; and for three years working for a large public company, when he was exposed to the intersection between the political and business worlds.