San Francisco Center for the Book – 2017 Punctuation Party
Auction Ends: May 4, 2017 06:00 PM PDT

Unique Experiences

An Afternoon with Poet Kay Ryan and Marie Dern at Jungle Garden Press

Item Number
201
Estimated Value
350 USD
Leading Bid
125 USD
Number of Bids
1  -  Bid History

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Item Description

An Afternoon with Poet Kay Ryan and Marie Dern at Jungle Garden Press

 

Spend an afternoon with poet Kay Ryan and book artist Marie Dern at Jungle Garden Press in Fairfax, CA, talking about their individual work and collaborative work through Jungle Garden Press.

Kay Ryan is the former U.S. Poet Laureate. She is also a Pulitzer Prize and MacArthur Foundation award winner. This year she will be inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Marie Dern began Jungle Garden Press in Berkeley, CA in 1974. Her intention in printing and bookmaking is to elucidate a text by the shape, binding, design, typography, and drawings of books, to make the experience of reading beautiful to the touch and the eyes as well as the mind, and to make the text understandable to the reader in the way she interprets it.

Item Special Note

Mutually agreeable date and time. Expires December 31, 2018.

Donated By:

Marie Dern

Kay Ryan