Poets House Letterpress Broadsides
Over the last ten years, Poets House has worked with Ugly Duckling Presse and Small Fires Press to produce limited-edition broadsides for special events and occasions. Here is a selection from our archives. They range from a poem by Emily Dickinson to an excerpt from Claudia Rankine’s Citizen.
Both Ugly Duckling Presse in Brooklyn and Small Fires Press in New Orleans are producers of beautiful books, broadsides, and ephemera, and we are grateful to have their work in our library collection. We are delighted to bring these distinctive broadsides to you in in this online exhibition.
Emily Dickenson, (1263), Ugly Duckling Presse, letterpress, 2010.
William Shakespeare, Sonnet 29, Small Fires Press, letterpress, 2011.
Lucille Clifton, Telling Our Stories, Small Fires Press, letterpress, 2012.
Galway Kinnell, Wait, Small Fires Press, letterpress, 2012.
Seamus Heaney, Death of a Naturalist, Small Fires Press, Letterpress, 2013.
Naomi Shihab Nye, Ringing, Small Fires Press, letterpress, 2014.
Galway Kinnell, from There Are Things I Tell to No One, Small Fires Press, letterpress, 2014.
Claudia Rankine, from Citizen, Small Fires Press, letterpress, 2017.