Poetry Broadsides: A collaboration between
the poets of English 303 and the printers of English 345
These broadsides are the products of collaborations between students in two English courses, “English 303: Advanced Poetry Writing” and “English 345: Book Culture.” Trading drafts and prints, the printers (in groups) and the individual poets were charged with responding to opinions and ideas and instructions with every new step—that is, having to make changes in their medium based on the work of others, from printers to poets and back again, and then making more changes to accommodate new results. It was a thrilling, discomfiting process, and truly collaborative, as everyone’s work was transformed.