{"id":4148,"date":"2017-01-05T10:19:07","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T15:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/?p=4148"},"modified":"2017-01-17T22:27:13","modified_gmt":"2017-01-18T03:27:13","slug":"exhibit-in-the-library-heather-maddens-poetry-building-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/2017\/01\/05\/exhibit-in-the-library-heather-maddens-poetry-building-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"Exhibit in the library : Heather Madden&#8217;s poetry building workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you come in the library over winter break, please take a moment to stop and enjoy the exhibit cases right across from the main InfoBar.\u00a0 They currently display the work of students who just completed IA 281:\u00a0 Band, Cast, Sedge, Bask: Building a Collection of Poems.\u00a0\u00a0 Heather Madden, Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing, taught this workshop in the fall for advanced students of poetry.\u00a0\u00a0 Her students studied collections of poems and the organization of chapbooks (defined as a small collection of poetry, generally no more than 40 pages, that often centers on a specific theme and is a format well suited to smaller print-runs).\u00a0\u00a0 The Hampshire College Library has many examples of chapbooks in its collections, including a large number in the Robert Seydel Collection, particularly works by Ugly Duckling Presse which were donated by Robert&#8217;s sister, Gail Seydel.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 For her workshop, Heather&#8217;s students spent a class period in our Special Collections looking at all sorts of examples of different book formats.\u00a0\u00a0 The students in IA 281 then wrote and revised their poems, and subsequently designed their own chapbooks.\u00a0\u00a0 You will see in the three exhibit cases that their chapbooks range from 8.5&#215;11 documents, to hand-stitched copies, to accordion books.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Take a few minutes to stop and appreciate their hard work and creative efforts!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4149\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4149\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/files\/2017\/01\/3-Unfurled-Window-e1483628754279.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4149 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/files\/2017\/01\/3-Unfurled-Window-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Accordion book by student Nico Gomez-Horton\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4149\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Window by Nico Gomez-Horton<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you come in the library over winter break, please take a moment to stop and enjoy the exhibit cases right across from the main InfoBar.\u00a0 They currently display the work of students who just completed IA 281:\u00a0 Band, Cast, Sedge, Bask: Building a Collection of Poems.\u00a0\u00a0 Heather Madden, Visiting &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":394,"featured_media":4149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12826,37110,21726],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-exhibits","category-hfj-library","category-spotlight","column","threecol","has-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4148"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/394"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4148"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4153,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4148\/revisions\/4153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}