stanza
Rooms for your pictures and your words, together.
You may not market yourself as a photographer, but you make beautiful pictures, and would like more for them than to see them pile up over the years or fade away on social media.
Maybe you’re a poet or a writer, but you also take photographs, and you feel a connection between those images and the words you shape. Lay them out together, here, and see what may emerge.
stanza is more free-form than grid, less museum label and more juxtaposition—from a single line to a short poem to a whole photo essay; from a single image to a complete series of photographs.
stanza is being made now. The pages on this site are examples—pictures by Todd Stabley, words by Walt Whitman from Leaves of Grass.
For poets
Walt Whitman spent thirty-seven years on Leaves of Grass, choosing its type, its paper and its binding himself. When “O Captain! My Captain!” first ran in a weekly paper in 1865, it was printed with punctuation he hadn’t intended. He set it right in the next printing, then revised the poem twice more.
stanza is for poets who care about the presentation.
Your poem, set as you intended: every indent, every space, every line. Your type, chosen as a printer would: the face, the drop cap, the printers’ marks.
Every version kept, from first draft to last printing.
Private until you’re ready, shared with the readers you choose.
Your words, always. stanza writes none of them.
Stanza is Italian for “room”, as well as a verse of a poem or music.