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Robin Gadient learned to read at 3 when her mother showed her index cards with words and colors. She’s been in love with words and colors ever since. Sometimes she makes them into poems. Sometimes poems arrive on wings or tiny feet. Sometimes she wakes up with them hand delivered in a dream. She’s working on her second book of poetry and teaching writing to women on the internet. 

The KBAC is excited to present a new chapbook, Two for Joy, by Robin Gadient. This small letterpress book, set, printed, and bound by hand, also contains two monotype prints by Caroline Allen. Each copy of the book is unique, with different hand-painted images, printed in an edition of seventy-five. 

Caroline Allen taught as a Lecturer in Literature and Writing at the College of Creative Studies (CCS) at UC Santa Barbara for over three decades, while also pursuing her work as a visual artist. She works in a variety of media including painting, printmaking, ceramics, and collage. In 2023 the KBAC collaborated with Caroline, who created the images for the limited edition book The Ghosts, by Kia Penso, funded by a Arts Project grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. That year she was also a studio artist at the KBAC where she began the prints for Two for Joy and later finished the edition at her studio in Ojai, California.