Poetry Broadsides

Print a poem on a single sheet of paper rather than a book, and it becomes something to hold and handle, use and look at rather than only something to read. Visual design interprets and inflects a poem. It changes the poem from an abstract structure of words into a material object. Author and educator James D. Sullivan discusses broadsides and their use by artists, poets, and readers.  He will be looking at broadsides that use the poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Creeley, Allen Ginsberg, and W. S. Merwin, among others.  This lecture is presented as part of Anchor Graphics’ Scraping the Surface lecture series.