Bless the Poets

I created this printed keepsake for the 2019 Colophon Club holiday exchange in collaboration with Rhiannon Alpers. I designed the illustration, folding format and typographic layout and Rhiannon letterpress printed the edition. It features an excerpt from Joy Harjo's Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings. Harjo is a citizen of the Muscogee Nation (Mvskoke/Creek), the 23rd U.S. Poet Laureate from 2019-2022, the first Native American to hold the title and only the second person in U.S. history to serve three times in the role.

“Bless the poets, the workers for justice, the dancers of ceremony, the singers of heartache, the visionaries, all makers and carriers of fresh meaning—We will all make it through, despite politics and wars, despite failures and misunderstandings. There is only love.”