The Real Lead Saloon:
Theresa Whitehill Event

Join us at The CODEX Foundation Logan Book Arts Center for a poetry reading by Theresa Whitehill celebrating the newest Real Lead Saloon publication of her book Divan del Tamarit. Come enjoy the current exhibition and learn more about the Real Lead Saloon and the handmade publications they produce in the studios of The CODEX Foundation.

Friday, March 13, 2026, 5:00 pm
The CODEX Foundation
Logan Book Arts Center
1331 Seventh Street, Unit D
Berkeley, CA 94710

This event will be free and open to the public. No RSVP required, though seating may be limited.

A California-born poet and letterpress artist, Theresa Whitehill has been a resident of Mendocino County for over forty years. Whitehill’s interrelated focus on literary and book arts came out of her studies with poet William Everson at UC Santa Cruz in the late 1970s and at Mills College in the Book Art program in the early 1980s.

Her poetry and letterpress broadsides are in many fine press collections, including the Getty Center for the Arts, the John Hay Library of Brown University, the British Museum, the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley, and the San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York Public Libraries. In 2024, she completed an 18-month tour of Heavy Lifting, her most ambitious project to date, a collaboration with Mendocino book artist, Felicia Rice, resulting in an artists’ book, a film, and a collection of poetry based on the personal and collective crises of recent years.