You're a poet or an admirer of poetry. You’ve seen and admired poetry broadsides, and you would like to design and print one of your own. In this two-part workshop, you'll be able to do just that. At the evening meeting, we will review the history of broadsides, with an emphasis on the SF Bay Area; look at myriad examples; discuss design choices; and create a design for the poem you brought. If time permits, we’ll begin typesetting. During the daylong workshop we’ll finish typesetting and design, discuss editioning, and print the broadsides in one to two ink colors. Each student will leave with 20 copies of their broadside. 

Materials to Bring: A poem of up to 20 lines.

Workshop Fee: $265.00

Date & Time: Wednesday, May 11, 2016 :: 6:30-9:30pm AND Saturday, May 14, 2016 :: 9:30am-5:30pm

Location: 375 Rhode Island St, San Francisco, CA 94103

Note: Please read over the SFCB Registration Policies before signing up for a class

REGISTRATION WILL CLOSE 3 DAYS PRIOR TO THE START DATE OF THIS WORKSHOP.

About the Instructor | Lisa Rappoport

Lisa Rappoport publishes poetry broadsides and artist’s books under the imprint Littoral Press. Since 1998 she has produced a series of broadsides by the poets who teach at the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley workshops; she has also printed poetry broadsides for Lawrence Ferlinghetti and City Lights Books, W.S. Merwin, and many others (last but not least, the Poets Pulling Prints series of the SFCB). Her poetry has appeared in Caesura, Five Fingers Review, Literal Latte, the anthology Pluto: New Horizons for a Lost Horizon, and elsewhere. She is the winner of the 1998 Icarus Poetry Competition and the recipient of a poetry residency at Centrum. Lisa has taught at the New College in San Francisco, at Kala Art Institute, and in her own studio. Her work has been displayed nationally and is in collections throughout the U.S.  You can visit her website at http://littoralpress.com

Past Student Reviews:

“Lisa was great, very knowledgeable, very thorough and her expertise and enthusiasm are very apparent.”

“Lisa is great! She explains her rationale for doing what she does, which is so helpful for an aspiring printer.”

“Lisa clearly had knowledge and experience to spare.  She presented the information clearly and was always there to answer questions and demonstrate skills."