WhitGuides
WhitGuides are designed to introduce basic book and zine making skills while sharing poetry and perspectives on America’s poet. Here’s Jane’s tribute to Whitman’s double love of city and country!
Pick up your own WhitGuide and delicious organic groceries at 91 South Street, NYC– home to Fulton Stall Market (downtairs) and the Walt Whitman Initiative’s Tane Poetry Library (upstairs!)
Our Summer 2024 interns Bellajeet Sahota and Jane Lilly are the creative forces behind WhitGuides, a series of creative zines that both celebrate and educate! Get your Walt on and try your book making skills by downloading Bellajeet’s and Jane’s folding exercises and following the attached instructions.
WhitGuides are designed to introduce basic book and zine making skills while sharing poetry and perspectives on America’s poet. Here’s Jane’s tribute to Whitman’s double love of city and country!
Pick up your own WhitGuide and delicious organic groceries at 91 South Street, NYC– home to Fulton Stall Market (downtairs) and the Walt Whitman Initiative’s Tane Poetry Library (upstairs!)
Instructions
To make the octavo fold “Whitman the Printer” zine, please follow instructions for a zine fold at YouTube (such as this one).
Instructions for making your own quarto pamphlet with simple stab binding (for “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” and “Whitman the Chemist”). Please note that you will need a simple book binding kit, available at the Tane Poetry Library or in craft stores.
WHITGUIDES
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Whitman the Printer
Whitman the Chemist
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
Walt Whitman, Rural New Yorker
Instructions
To make the octavo fold “Whitman the Printer” zine, please follow instructions for a zine fold at YouTube (such as this one).
Instructions for making your own quarto pamphlet with simple stab binding (for “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” and “Whitman the Chemist”). Please note that you will need a simple book binding kit, available at the Tane Poetry Library or in craft stores.