In Spring 2019 students from Spanish 3070 Literary Analysis attended the Rare Books Classroom to consider the physical aspects of literary texts and to decipher first-hand the impact of examining a book and text as physical object. The viewing offered students a chance to see...

“There is something moving between us, But we hurtle on in close conjunction for a while.” –from “Eclipse” by Leland Kinsey Eclipses from Trio Leland Kinsey The Janus Press: VT, 2014 N7433.4 A1 T75 2015 From the colophon: “These poems appeared previously in Northern Almanac published by Catamount Arts in St Johnsbury...

Jessica Peterson, book artist, letterpress printer, and graphic designer is the owner of The Southern Letterpress in New Orleans. She holds an MFA in Book Arts from the University of Alabama and a BFA from The School of Art Institute of Chicago. While visiting the J....

“Rare Books helped me develop a different perspective on literary analysis.” – Lyuba Basin (Class of 2015 and graduate student in Comparative Literature/Cultural Studies, The University of Utah) Lyuba Basin, former Rare Books Curator, writes from Argentina, where she is spending eight months on a Fulbright...