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Walt Whitman and the People’s Press

A unique course combining literature and design leads to a mobile printing press that will be part of the poet’s 200th birthday celebration.
David Comberg with the Walt Whitman Press
The Walt Whitman and the People’s Press course included a mobile printing press as a public art project. David Comberg, lecturer in fine arts, is working with student interns to operate the press at community events. From left, rising junior Jamie Albrecht, rising senior Jacob Hershman, rising junior Alyson del Pino, Comberg, and May graduate Autumn Wynde.

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