Monday, December 22, 2008

LitPub Final Books...Beauty & Substance!

For their final projects, my Literary Publications students had to create a hand-made edition of 15 books containing original writing. As you can see, they made all sorts of books from all sorts of materials. Great job, everyone!

Lindsey's book, "Illumination," revealed its title only when plugged in...













Katie's untitled book resembled a guitar's fretboard...and inside, sheetmusic-style pages unfurl to reveal tiny poems...













Rose figured out how to incorporate her favorite breakfast food -- oatmeal -- into "Swallow," her collection of microfiction...











In her short poem collection, "Everyday Notes," Tania used a delicate chain binding to stitch together tiny observations from her everyday life...












In "Our Journal," Sylvia used her own creative works as prompts for the writing of her friends and family...












Jane created a double decker accordian book about a "Sensei Rabbit" and "Wriggle, the Poet Squirrel"...










Krystle used a glass soapdish and real lavender sachets to give her short story, "Love, Lavender and Loneliness," additional depth...










Meagan incorporated fun typography and colorful threads into her humor collection, "A Short Stack of Silly Shorts for the Morally Sidetracked"...












Amy's poetry collection, "Into the Chokecherry Tree," takes on an arboreal shape as it expands...











In "Duckie's Week," Abby uses a playful format to hold a playful children's story...










Michelle's book, "TM," uses colorful photographs and fun text to teach children about trademark law...












Kate created nature-inspired woodcuts to illustrate her poetry collection, "Transverberation"...












Rebekah's fake fortune-telling tome, "Asstrology," evoked giggles from all within listening distance...





Thursday, December 4, 2008

Mystery Bag Challenge!

For a recent class, I put random items (for instance: magnets, rubber bands, packing materials, toilet paper rolls, cables from the inside of my dead computer) into brown paper bags and let the students choose one apiece. Whatever was inside had to become a book. Given the time and material restraints, I was amazed at what they came up with...sooooo creative!

Look at them hard at work...












From a square-ish piece of bubble wrap, an Anthropologie ad, and some telephone wire, Kate made "Satellite T.V. in Iceland"...












From five empty toilet paper rolls, Michelle made a lovely, rabbit-y children's story...









From a curly magnet and some leftover burlap, Rose made the first book-y watch I've ever seen...










From a handful of wooden skewers, Amy created a stab-bind book about trees...












From a plastic Coca Cola bottle, Jane made a snow globe book...










From the IDE wires inside my old Sony Vaio CPU, Lindsey made a book about space...













From a fold-out map and the cut-off spiral spine of a (former) strathmore drawing pad, Katie made a voyage book of her own...



Friday, October 31, 2008

Emergence

























by Kate McGill

Thirty-One Days













by Michelle Colburn

Speak

























by Rose Huber
Read about Rose's book-y process

Perspective




















by Meagan Nyland

You Fucked Up





















by Amy Rowland

Baby Jessica Must be Stopped



































by Rebekah McLain

Things
































by Lindsey Culli

Leading Lady: Memories of Our Grandmothers. A Collection.













by Krystle Carter

Three Songs Seen























by Katie Feild