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Summer's Last Stand: Lemonade Fellowship

Kevin McFadden — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:54:38 +0000

Join us Sept. 20th, 1-5PM, for an open house as we celebrate our latest broadside–Jennifer Perrine’s “Life Gives You Lemons, Make”–and toast the equinox with lemonade. (Lavender lemonade while it lasts, also a $25 members price on the broadside.) Check in on the “Infinite Stakes” project, a publicity plan for the Nov 13th Raucous Auction, a tour of the new website, chat, type distributing…so long, summer.

L,O,V,E and the Other 22

Kristin Adolfson — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:24:54 +0000

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 some inventive relationship to the other letters. Limited edition of 100.

Be watching for the winner of the 2008 contest. Details soon on 2009!

One Volume Missing

Kevin McFadden — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:13:41 +0000

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 $50, purchased from the UVa Bookstore.