Philip Gallo

Philip Gallo started The Hermetic Press in 1965 as a press devoted to printing concrete and visual poetry of his own design. Many of these books are now in major collections including the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and Walker Art Center, among others. Gallo was also closely associated with Granary Books in their start-up years, and for ten years he was their principal typographer/printer, occasionally collaborating as printer until as late as 2016. Over the last fifteen years he has collaborated extensively with the book artist, Harriet Bart. In addition to his work as a private printer/typographer/book artist (Gallo has also worked in the trade, off and on for fifty years, as both a silkscreen printer and an advertising typographer) he has published three chapbooks of poems, one entirely about the craft of printing, A Printer’s Dozen.