Letterpress Broadsides

A printed artistic piece titled 'System of Restraint, a work in progress' with abstract purple and brown textured background and various handwritten-style text blocks scattered across the design.

“United States/Estados Unidos” by Urayoán Noel. Designed and printed from photopolymer plates for the Center for Book Arts, 2014.

“System of Restraint: a work in progress,” by MC Hyland. Text, handmade cotton and abaca papers, design, and printing from linoleum and metal type for the Love and Displacement print exchange, 2008.

A poem titled 'The Up Side' by Ron Padgett, with a background design of stylized pine trees in shades of green and yellow.

“The Up Side” by Ron Padgett. Designed and printed from metal type & linoleum Woodland Pattern Book Center, 2019.

Stylized magazine or journal page with colorful abstract circles in pink, orange, and purple overlayed with text. The main heading is 'At the Festival of the Coolness of the World'.

“Why Poetry Can Be Hard for Most People” by Dorothea Lasky. Designed and printed from wood and metal type for the Center for Book Arts, 2013.

“At the Festival of the Coolness of the World” by Jen Bervin & Genine Lentine. Designed & printed from metal type and linoleum for the Center for Book Arts, 2015.

Blue paper with a dark blue silhouette of leafless trees and grass, along with a paragraph of poetic text about a scene in a graveyard.

Untitled poem by Ann Jaderlund, translated by Johannes Goransson. Designed and printed on handmade paper from metal type and linoleum for Fairy Tale Review, 2006.

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