Poetics of the Handmade

When so much of our reading happens through phones and screens, what does it mean to share poetry that takes not just printed, but specifcally handmade, forms? The participants in this roundtable make postcards, books, broadsides, and other poetry objects on kitchen tables, in letterpress shops, and in book-folding or sewing parties, one at a time, by hand. How does hand-seting type, or hand-stitching chapbooks, change our relationship to poems, or to language more generally? What can we learn about poetics by making it by hand?