Dear all, Please share the following information with friends and colleagues and hope to see you there too. POETRY AND THE PAGE: Visualizing the Word In person workshop - Saturday July 19- 11-5, 2025 at Center for Book Arts, NYC - Registration closes July 13 What is poetry? How do words inspire us? The class will begin with choosing one’s own text or a favorite passage, and proceed to extract words that can be formed into poetic form. Discussion will center on various forms of poetry, how to pull out meaningful text and compose one’s own poem. The next step is to respond visually to it via drawing, collage, printing and/or painting on the pages and transform them into a creative work of art. If time allows we will bind your pages into a book. Note: This workshop references Tom Philip’s A Humument – Please visit his site and read the introduction at: https://www.tomphillips.co.uk/humument For more information and to register, please visit: https://centerforbookarts.org/classes/in-person/25mwr100i Happy Fourth Maria Maria G Pisano Memory Press MGP Studio Arts www.mariagpisano.com Maria G Pisano’s Book Via Dolorosa: From Sea to Shining Sea will be part of the exhibit: Who is America at 250? Artists’ Books on the State of Democracy, opening at San Francisco Center for the Book during the 2026 international CODEX Symposium and Book Fair. https://www.mariagpisano.com/books/memory-press/via-dolorosa-from-sea-to-shining-sea/ Posts from the NML on Memory Press works https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2021/08/05/the-artist-book-cover-to-cover-with-maria-pisano-part-i https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2021/08/12/the-artist-book-cover-to-cover-with-maria-g-pisano-part-ii/ See Memory Press book: Fractured: Covid 19 - Memento Mori vs. Memento Vivere - https://www.mariagpisano.com/books/memory-press/fractured-covid-19-memento-mori-vs-memento-vivere/ "All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary. In no case would it have been possible, once the deed was done, to prove that any falsification had taken place." 1984 by George Orwell