Member Bio: Kevin McFadden is the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities liaison to the Virginia Arts of the Book Center. His work at the VFH has included nine seasons as the Associate Program Director of the Virginia Festival of the Book. He is a letterpress printer whose first book of poems, Hardscrabble, was a selection of the VQR Poetry Series.
Website:http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=4550
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In 2009, the VABC helped out the Virginia Festival of the Book by designing and producing its “Headline Event” passes. This pass was designed on a computer, saved as a pdf, then sent to our friends at Boxcar Press who converted it to a reversed polymer image. We can then print with the polymer using [...]
Filed under: Recent Work on April 17th, 2009 | No Comments »
Signed, letterpress print of the late George Garrett’s poem “Luck’s Shining Child.” Printed in black on natural paper with attractive, light-fast, black paper wrapper (Stonehenge paper) imprinted with silver lettering. Limited edition of 150 in honor of his Virginia Poet Laureateship during the 10th annual Virginia Festival of the Book.
Filed under: Broadsides, Members Only on September 8th, 2008 | No Comments »
Beautiful, limited edition letterpress work signed by Rita Dove featuring the poem “One Volume Missing” from Dove’s Pulitzer Prize winning poetry collection, Thomas and Beulah, which traces the lives of her grandparents. Handset in Caslon types and printed on Stonehenge paper. A limited edition of 100. A limited number of these broadsides are available for [...]
Filed under: Broadsides, Recent Work on September 4th, 2008 | No Comments »