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Mills College Contemporary Writers Series broadside collection, 2002-2017

Overview of the Collection

Title
Mills College Contemporary Writers Series broadside collection
Dates
2002-2017 (inclusive)
Quantity
1 portfolio
Collection Number
OLPa235MIL
Summary
A collection of printed broadsides by contemporary writers invited to campus by the English Department and Book Art Program at Mills College. Broadsides are designed and printed by graduate students in the Book Art Program.
Repository
Lewis & Clark College, Special Collections and Archives

Aubrey R. Watzek Library
615 S. Palatine Hill Rd.
Portland, OR
97219
Telephone: 5037687758
Fax: 5037687282
archives@lclark.edu
Access Restrictions

Collection is open for research.

Languages
English, Spanish; Castilian
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Content Description

This collection consists of poetry broadsides by contemporary writers invited to campus by the English Department and Book Art Program at Mills College. The designs were created by graduate students in the Book Art and Creative Writing Program at Mills College and printed using letterpress printing methods. Printed in limited editions, these broadsides are all signed and numbered.

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Historical Note

The broadsides in this collection are printed by Eucalyptus Press, the imprint of the Mills College Book Art Program in Oakland, California.

This collection was donated in 2023 by Kathleen Walkup, Professor Emerita at Mills College, where she held the inaugural Lovelace Family Endowed Chair in Book Art and taught classes in typography, letterpress printing, artists' bookmaking and graduate seminars in book history and theory. At Mills College she established the first graduate program in book arts in the country in 1983. She began her printing career as part of a radical offset printing collective in Cambridge, Massachusetts, then co-founded both Five Trees Press and Peartree Printers, the first women's letterpress trade press since the late 1800s in San Francisco. Her publishing imprints have included Matrix Press and new broom. In 2019 a solo exhibition of her printing, Transitory Matter, was held at Mills College.

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Use of the Collection

Preferred Citation

[identification of item], Mills College Contemporary Writers Series broadside collection, Lewis & Clark College Special Collections and Archives, Portland, Oregon.

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Administrative Information

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Detailed Description of the Collection

  • Description: "Sea" by Etel Adnan; book in an edition class
    Dates: 2002
    Container: Folder 1, Item 1
  • Description: from "Financial District" by Jena Osman; designed by Jessea Perry
    Dates: 2005
    Container: Folder 1, Item 2
  • Description: "Humanimal" by Bhanu Kapil; designed by Lara Durback
    Dates: 2006
    Container: Folder 1, Item 3
  • Description: "Pretty Pretty Pretty" by Daniel Handler; designed by Cassandra Smith
    Dates: 2006
    Container: Folder 1, Item 4
  • Description: "Coal Mountain Elementary" by Mark Nowak; designed by Lara Durback
    Dates: 2009
    Container: Folder 1, Item 5
  • Description: "Goes Without Saying" by Kyle Schlesinger; designed by Lyall Harris and Kiala Givehand
    Dates: 2010
    Container: Folder 1, Item 6
  • Description: "Dream Number Three" by Shahrnush Parsipur; designed by Franny Bannen
    Dates: 2010
    Container: Folder 1, Item 7
  • Description: "The Weather" by Eileen Myles; designed by Kate Robinson
    Dates: 2010
    Container: Folder 1, Item 8
  • Description: "big question" by M. Nourbe Se Philip; designed by Meg Day
    Dates: 2011
    Container: Folder 1, Item 9
  • Description: "We Three Calves" by Zenon Fajfer; translated by Katarzyna Bazarnik; designed by Kate Robinson
    Dates: 2011
    Container: Folder 1, Item 10
  • Description: "Wieczor Trzech Cielcow" by Zenon Fajfer; designed by Kate Robinson
    Dates: 2011
    Container: Folder 1, Item 11
  • Description: "Happiness Research" by Chana Bloch; designed by Rob Borges and Luz Marina Ruiz
    Dates: 2011
    Container: Folder 1, Item 12
  • Description: "Calamities" by Renee Gladman; designed by Matt Runkle and Emji Spero
    Dates: 2012
    Container: Folder 1, Item 13
  • Description: "Gurgling in the Monster Depths" by Rena Rozenwasser; designed by Matt Runkle and Emji Spero
    Dates: 2012
    Container: Folder 1, Item 14
  • Description: "O! Crayola" by Joyce Carol Oates; designed by Jess Gale, Faith Hale, Perla Melendez, and Ava Rosen
    Dates: 2013
    Container: Folder 1, Item 15
  • Description: "Song of Your Pluck" by Anne Carson; designed by Kendyll Naomi Pappas, Meri Page, Emji Spero, and Jennifer Williams
    Dates: 2013
    Container: Folder 1, Item 16
  • Description: "In the Beginning" by Victor LaValle; designed by Ariel Strong and Nora McKinnon
    Dates: 2015
    Container: Folder 1, Item 17
  • Description: "The Poet" by Eileen Miles; designed by Nora McKinnon
    Dates: 2015
    Container: Folder 1, Item 18
  • Description: "Dead Up" by Keenan Norris; designed by Nora McKinnon
    Dates: 2016
    Container: Folder 1, Item 19
  • Description: from Bluets by Maggie Nelson; designed by Nora McKinnon and Brooke Hardy
    Dates: 2016
    Container: Folder 1, Item 20
  • Description: "&generalrelease" by Cheena Marie Lo; designed by Brooke Hardy
    Dates: 2016
    Container: Folder 1, Item 21
  • Description: from Total Recall by Samantha Giles; designed by Brooke Hardy
    Dates: 2017
    Container: Folder 1, Item 22
  • Description: "The Golem of Seoul" by Christine Jyung-Oak Lee; designed by Manar A. Harb
    Dates: 2017
    Container: Folder 1, Item 23

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Subject Terms

  • American poetry--20th century
  • Letterpress printing
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