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Porch Light (lamp and chair) by Joshua Beckman & Jon Beacham is now finished. Copies are available for sale here:

A book of 27 poems by Joshua Beckman and 8 collages by Jon Beacham. The result of a creative friendship and an ongoing discussion, Porch Light brings together work made between 2009 and 2012. The book was hand set and printed letterpress, with the collages printed color offset. Signatures sewn by hand, and bound into letterpress wrappers. 300 copies. Summer 2012.

Type City by Hong Seon Jang

Type City by Hong Seon Jang

Letterpress and bookbinding at Spork Press.

And sky’s first poem is always milk gushing straight down door we face as we face a mirror —John Yau

And sky’s first poem

is always

milk

gushing

straight

down

door

we face

as we face

a mirror

—John Yau

MY LIFE’S WORK - Guy Pettit

MY LIFE’S WORK - Guy Pettit

Letterpress broadside by Roger Snell to mark the passing of Philip Whalen.

Letterpress broadside by Roger Snell to mark the passing of Philip Whalen.

Kate, Emily, Angela making Akilah’s chapbook. 2010. Resin plates.

Kate, Emily, Angela making Akilah’s chapbook. 2010. Resin plates.