Folded Paper, Printed Poem: A Letterpress Poetry Workshop with Matvei Yankelevich & N. Adam Beadel (Archived)

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Reading:

Matvei Yankelevich with Afaa Michael Weaver & Laynie Browne

Friday, October 23 at 7 pm

Admission: $8 general | $7 students & seniors | $6 WPBC members; FREE for participants in this workshop! 

Matvei Yankelevich is the author of the poetry collection Alpha Donut, and a novella in fragments, Boris by the Sea. A long poem, Some Worlds for Dr. Vogt, will be released in Fall 2015, from Black Square Editions. He is the translator of Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms, and co-translator of the National Translation Award-winning An Invitation for Me to Think by Alexander Vvedensky. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts. He edits the Eastern European Poets Series for Ugly Duckling Presse, and teaches at Columbia University's School of the Arts, Queens College, and the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College.

N. Adam Beadel began carving & printing linoleum blocks in 2006 in Seattle, WA while volunteering at the Richard Hugo House. In 2010, he accepted an internship at Yee-Haw Industries in Knoxville, TN to study letterpress under Kevin Bradley. In 2011, he moved to Milwaukee and in 2012 he began to collect the equipment he need for his print shop.   

Beadel owns and operates Team Nerd Letterpress, a boutique print shop in the Historic Walker's Point neighborhood of Milwaukee. He makes custom posters and cards exclusively from wood & lead type and hand-carved linoleum blocks. Beadel has shown his prints in London, UK, Washington State, Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, and on refrigerators the world over.