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jaeleslie at 09:56am on 06/02/2003
jaeleslie at 09:56am on 06/02/2003There is a calligraphy teacher in Chicago, Reggie Ezell, who for more than a decade has been running monthly classes nationwide. He flies into a different city every weekend, spends a marathon weekend with local calligraphy students, hands out voluminous assignments, and comes back the next month. In the absence of much other formal craft training in handlettering in the U.S., his curriculum has had a huge influence on current practice. In 1997 I took his year-long class with Milwaukee's Cream City Calligraphers.
The first month of the year, he assigns a lengthy poem by Carl Sandburg, "The People Yes" (or other text of your choosing). Our local study group has found it useful to review these assignments, and yesterday I was looking through my notebook and found this bit, which I felt called on to start working up. Seems topical.
Who can live without hope?
In the darkness with a great bundle of grief the people march.
In the night, and overhead a shovel of stars for keeps, the people march:
"Where to? what next?"
(--Carl Sandburg)
The first month of the year, he assigns a lengthy poem by Carl Sandburg, "The People Yes" (or other text of your choosing). Our local study group has found it useful to review these assignments, and yesterday I was looking through my notebook and found this bit, which I felt called on to start working up. Seems topical.
Who can live without hope?
In the darkness with a great bundle of grief the people march.
In the night, and overhead a shovel of stars for keeps, the people march:
"Where to? what next?"
(--Carl Sandburg)