Design Center students Haley Taylor, Gina Croteau and Natalie Sequeira created editions of two broadsides they designed for visiting poet Paul Muldoon’s new poem “Firing Squad.” The works were published under Counterproof Press, a collaborative initiative between the Creative Writing Program in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Communication Design, Illustration and Printmaking in the UConn Art & Art History Department.

Paul Muldoon has published over thirty collections of poetry and won a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the T. S. Eliot Prize.  He is Poetry Editor at The New Yorker.  In an event that was very special to us all, Paul Muldoon read “Firing Squad” from the Counterproof Press broadside during his reading for the Wallace Stevens Poetry Program.

Counterproof Press facilitates collaborative studio projects in which students, faculty, and visiting artists/scholars from various disciplines work together to produce limited edition art objects, artifacts, and publications.

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