Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Reimagine
The three R's are for more than grocery bags. Add a fourth R, Reimagine, and they stand for an exciting movement embracing sustainability in book arts. Endpapers made from a poet's t-shirts, aluminum foil and waxed paper finding new life as broadsides, and chapbooks sharing space through dos-a-dos binding are some of the innovative approaches on display from the Poetry Center's Rare Book Room.
Contemporary American Nature PoetryBy turns mystic, dystopic, and sublime, the natural world has served poets since the Romantics as a dramatic backdrop, an expression of the divine, or a mirror for the human condition. Beginning in the 1960s, nature poetry shifts emphasis from pressing nature into service to making it subject and actor. This exhibit speaks to ecopoetry by considering the beautiful and transformative aspects of the work that has gone before.
Library exhibitions are displayed in the Jeremy Ingalls Gallery of the Poetry Center.Past exhibitions are archived online:
Special e-Exhibit:
