Tuesday, December 21, 2010

News at Eleven (Back Page): So to come upon a place

like Naropa University, where poetry is written and read and listened to and discussed, is a delight. And then to get a tour of Naropa's Harry Smith Print Shop, where verse is lovingly printed--with old metal type and antique presses, yet--well, it's both Disneyland and Dollywood for dactyl addicts, an enchanted kingdom of fonts and figures.

from The Chronicle of Higher Education: A Letterpress Shop Survives, Printing Poems in the Era of YouTube

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