Jen Bervin @ Reed College!

It's Reed Arts Week and The Visiting Writers' Series and The Poetry Salon at Reed College are honored to present Jen Bervin who will deliver an Artist Talk for The Poetry Salon on the afternoon of March 5th and a reading later that evening. Don't miss out! ARTIST TALK + SALON: 4:30 - 6:00pm Vollum Lounge READING: 6:30pm Eliot Chapel MARCH 3-8, 2015: Artist Books in Special Collections! Jen Bervin's work brings together text and textile in a practice that encompasses poetry, archival research, artist’s books, and large-scale art works. She has published four books with Granary Books and three others with Ugly Duckling Presse. The recent trade release of her artist’s book first published as a limited edition by Granary, The Gorgeous Nothings: Emily Dickinson's Envelope Poems, co-edited with Marta Werner (with a preface by Susan Howe) from Christine Burgin / New Directions, made "Best Books of 2013" lists in The New Yorker, The Times Literary Supplement and Hyperallergic. Current research for her next project, The Silk Poems, an experimental book nanoimprinted on silk film, includes consulting nanotechnology and biomedical labs, medical libraries, and over fifty international textile archives and sericulture museums. Jen Bervin has received fellowships and residencies in art and writing from the Bogliasco Foundation, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Creative Capital, The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, MacDowell Colony, Visual Studies Workshop, Center for Book Arts, and Camargo Foundation in France. Her work has been shown at The Power Plant in Toronto, The Walker Art Center, The Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, The Soap Factory, and Temple Contemporary, and is in more than thirty collections including Yale University, Stanford University, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, and The J. Paul Getty Museum. See her work at www.jenbervin.com