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What I'm Reading: Nature

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Star 82 Review Pocket Poems: 100 Short Poems + 25 images

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Bird Art at Albany Library, May 2019

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New Collaboration: Letters of Transit: Bird Passports

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Shifting Tides: a Traveling Art Quilt Exhibit

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Water Music: a Quilt with Marbled Fabric

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Exhibit & Postcard-Sized Quilt: Picking Cherries

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The Poetry of Mosses

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Friendly Writing Workshop Upcoming in Berkeley

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Star 82 Review 7.1 Is Live!

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Language and LACMA: poetry and art

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Ospreys at the Whirley Crane Nest: Season III

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Hope Rants and Regional Collective Exhibition

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Alisa: Alisa Golden is the author of Making Handmade Books: 100+ Bindings, Structures & Forms (Lark Crafts, 2011), and Painted Paper: Techniques & Projects for Handmade Books & Cards (Lark Books, 2008), among others. She makes art quilts, books under the imprint never mind the press, and teaches bookmaking, writing, and letterpress printing around the San Francisco Bay Area, and for 12 years at California College of the Arts. She holds a BFA in printmaking from California College of Arts and Crafts (now CCA), and an MFA in creative writing from San Francisco State University. Her stories, poems, and art have been published widely, and she founded and edits the online and print magazine, Star 82 Review. Her book art may be found in numerous Special Collections of libraries and universities across the United States.

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Making Handmade Books

Making Handmade Books

"Best Bookmaking Guide" on Cool Tools
"Top 10 Books on Crafts" 2011
Ask book-related questions in this blog post, or check previous answers, corrections, and comments.
Find step-by-step instructions for old and new projects here.

Painted Paper

Expressive Handmade Books

never mind the press

Alisa Golden's official website
Alisa's art & books on Etsy
Interview with Alisa Golden
Another interview with Alisa Golden
Star 82 Review: art & lit magazine
Star 82 Review News blog

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Recent Art & Writing by Alisa

Chiron Review: #112/113 Summer/Fall 2018: "Acceptance"
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Unlost Journal: October 1, 2018; "Instability" and "Displacements"
Nomadic Press Journal: Wonder, September 18, 2018; "Houses Imagined"

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