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he C.C. Stern Type Foundry is launching a new letterpress broadside, “Against Your Departure,” the sixth print in our Pacific Northwest Poets Laureate Broadside series. The broadside is illustrated and printed by Jessica Spring and features a new poem by Washington Poet Laureate Emerita Elizabeth Austen.The event is free and open to the public.
“Against Your Departure” prints (edition of 50) will be available for sale beginning April 19, 2025 at the event and from the C.C. Stern Type Foundry marketplace.
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Former Washington State Poet Laureate Elizabeth Austen is the author of Every Dress a Decision (Blue Begonia Press), and the chapbooks The Girl Who Goes Alone and Where Currents Meet. She’s performed her work in venues ranging from UNESCO in Paris to Holden Village in central Washington state. Her poems are featured in Cascadia: A Field Guide Through Art, Ecology and Poetry, the New England Review and Spirited Stone: Lessons from Kubota’s Garden, among other journals and anthologies.
essica Spring began her interest in typesetting and printing as a phototypesetter in the 1980s.She has been a letterpress printer ever since, researching historic type composition and inventing Daredevil Furniture to help other printers set type in circles, curves and angles. Her work at Springtide Press in Tacoma entails artist books, broadsides and ephemera, and can be found in collections around the country and abroad. Collaborations and teaching are a vital part of her work, including many years co-producing the Dead Feminists series.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
1600 Louisiana St, Longview, WA, United States, Washington 98632
