PAST SEMINARS & WORKSHOPS
Wesley B. Tanner
Passim Editions
Jane Gentry Vance
Kentucky Poet Laureate
Friday, 28 March 2008
BOOK ARTS EVENT
“Printing at Passim Editions”
with Wesley B. Tanner
— Free and Open to All —
7:00 P.M.
The Great Hall / Special Collections / Margaret I. King Building
Saturday, 29 March 2008
BOOK ARTS WORKSHOP
A Reading & A Portfolio
with Jane Gentry Vance
— Advance Registration Required —
8:30 A.M. CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
9:00 A.M. READING & WORKSHOP
Hear a reading by Kentucky’s Poet Laureate and, working at the King Library Press with vintage presses, metal types, and fine papers, print a limited edition portfolio of her poems.
HOW TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS
KING LIBRARY PRESS BOOK ARTS WORKSHOP
Saturday's workshop requires registration and a fee of $30.00. Participation is limited. Lunch is on-your-own. Make a reservation by calling (859) 257-8408 or (859) 257-1742 or by contacting klijdb@uky.edu and then sending your check in the amount of $30.00 payable to University of Kentucky. Mail to: The King Library Press / Special Collections / University of Kentucky Libraries / Lexington, KY 40506-0039.
WESLEY B. TANNER has been a fine printer for thirty-five years. His publishing activities began in 1971 under the imprint of Arif Press at his printing office in Berkeley, California. There he published dozens of fine, limited-edition books by some of the most important poets of our time, including Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Michael McClure, HD, Joanne Kyger, and Anne Waldman. For ten years he and partner Will H. Powers printed Fine Print,the award-winning journal for the art of the book. In 1991 Tanner moved to Ann Arbor where he began to publish books with Susan Skarsgard as Passim Editions. Tanner Also maintains a thriving book design practice and is on the faculty of the University of Michigan’s School of Art & Design. His work has been exhibited at the San Francisco Public Library, UCLA, the University of Michigan, and the Minnesota Center for the Book Arts.
JANE GENTRY VANCE, a native of the Kentucky Bluegrass, was named the Commonwealth’s Poet Laureate on 24 April 2007. She serves on the Graduate Faculty of the University of Kentucky, where she teaches both in the Honors Program and in the Department of English. Her work has been published in the Sewanee Review, Harvard Magazine, Southern Poetry Review, American Voice, andHumanities in the South. Louisiana State University Press has published two collections of her poems, A Garden in Kentucky (1995) and Portrait of the Artist as a White Pig(2006). Press Eight Seventeen published A Year in Kentucky: A Garland of Poemsin 2005. A Yaddo fellow, Jane Gentry Vance has received the Al Smith Individual Artist Fellowship and numerous other grants and awards.