The Virginia Arts of the Book Center is pleased to announce that Laura McKee of Seattle, WA, is the winner of the “Power Poems” poetry contest. Her poem “Good Behavior / White Salmon” will be made into a limited-edition letterpress broadside by VABC artists. Contest poems were to engage the theme of power. Other finalists for [...]
“Taps” by Anne Harding Woodworth was the winner of the 2011 Musical Mood Contest. “Taps” was originally published in TriQuarterly, Issue 129, 2007. Ink drawing for plate by Frank Riccio, typeset by Kevin McFadden, and letterpress printed by hand at Virginia Arts of the Book Center, a program of Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, Charlottesville, [...]
“Pip, Mid-Sea” is a poem by Hailey Leithauser that won the VABC “Chapter Verse” poetry contest (poems about books) with her poem in the vein of Moby Dick. The image is pen-and-ink artwork by Frank Riccio, for a two-plate process. Typeset by Kevin McFadden. Riccio and McFadden printed the broadside in a limited edition of [...]
Join us in celebrating the publication of the winner of the 2009 “Green Poems” broadside contest–Jnanam MacIsaac. Click on the image to see what the collaboration with VABC Artist Frank Riccio yielded, a limited edition of 100 copies. (It’s even better in the pear-flesh.) Broadsides will be available for $45 ($35 for members). A limited [...]
Catherine Moore
Catherine Moore
This is the winner of the 2007 “Belle Letters” contest….Jeanette Marie Sayers’s “L, O, V, E, and the Other Twenty-two” is a whimsical and romantic exploration of the alphabet, the winner of the Belle Letters contest from the Virginia Arts of the Book Center, letterpress printed in Charlottesville, 2008. Each letter has a story, and [...]
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.
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 [...]
Cherryl Floyd-Miller’s two poems Snake Oil and Voodoo Chicken. The poems won the Companion Poems Broadside contest, Virginia Arts of the Book Center, VFH, Charlottesville, 2006. Broadside designed by Kristin Adolfson and printed by Angie Hogan and Kevin McFadden. Letterpress printed with penciled accents, numbered edition of 70. This broadside is available for $35 through [...]