Steel Wool - Poetry and Illustration 1st Edition

002Press is an interdisciplinary collective and printing press based in NJ. Their work focuses heavily on zine-making, bookmaking, poetry, music, illustration, and graphic design. Their work features a synthesis of drawing and graphic design in a few key ways; character design and the usage of identity as living symbol, the coded identifiers of a person and how they manifest as visual and immaterial design structures, and a commitment to visual and poetic improvisational aesthetics.

In other words, 002Press aims to operate through a lens/ style of hyper-vulnerability as a survival response to living as Black people in a world that socio-economically seeks for our demise. Their hope is to transmute this living trauma into song, ideally to facilitate connection and community through art.

In this second jawn, 001 and 002 give you access to a selection of poems produced individually and collaboratively. Additionally, Steel Wool aims to embody their multidisciplinary modes of expression through an echoed voice of drawing and creative writing.

Zine design & creative direction by Saint Twin
Original poetry by Saint Twin & Artmaps
Original Illustrations by Justyn Morris & Alfred Dudley III
Printed in studio by 003 hand bound by 002Press in NJ
Copyright 002Press 2026

This work has been made possible by a grant received by The New Jersey State Council for the Art’s Individual Artist Finalist Award