Past Workshops & Seminars

Bookmaking for Writers with Rebekah Smith
Saturday, June 21, 2025
In-person at the UDP studio.
This one-day workshop introduced participants to bookmaking basics, with a focus on how to think about your writing and book project in connection to each other. 
LAPSUS LIINGUII: asemics, trancelation, and the senses with Diana Garza Islas
Saturday, December 7, 2024
In-person at the UDP studio
This workshop will explore poetic and hybrid writing through trancelation exercises using phonetical and asemic approaches.
Introduction to Letterpress with Milo Wippermann
Saturday, March 9, 2024
In-person at the UDP studio
This four-hour workshop held in the UDP studio will introduce participants to letterpress printing on a Provisional Press. The workshop will cover typesetting with lead and wood type, Provisional Press maintenance and cleaning, and ink manipulation. Each participant will take home a small letterpress project of their own devising. No previous letterpress experience necessary.
WHAT THE LETTER’S DOING WHEN THE WORD ISN’T LOOKING: An Inquiry with Lewis Freedman
Sundays, October 22 to November 12, 2023
Online seminar held over Zoom
On the Liminality of Surfaces with Lewis Freedman
Sundays, February 20 and 27; March 6 and 13, 2022
Online seminar held over Zoom
Paratextual Play with Holly Melgard
Wednesdays, May 11 and 18, 2022
Online seminar held over Zoom
The Book as Democratic Multiple with Willa Goettling
Sundays, December 5, 12, and 19, 2021
Online seminar held over Zoom
Worldbuilding as Poetic Attempt
Sunday, October 24, 2021
Online seminar held over Zoom
Softcover Long-Stitch Binding with Willa Goettling
Sunday, June 13, 2021, 5pm — 6:30pm EST
Online seminar held over Zoom
Simple Book Structures with Willa Goettling
Sunday, May 2, 2021
Online seminar held over Zoom
Living in Long Poems with Emily Hunt
Wednesdays, January 27 to February 24, 17 to June 14, 2021
Online seminar held over Zoom