Book Arts Events

WNY Book Arts Center in conjunction with White Pine Press presents

The Art of the Broadside
A special Exhibit/Sale/Auction Event

The Art of the Broadside celebrates forty years of the art of the poetry broadside drawn from the collection of White Pine Press. The collection available for sale and auction includes work by nationally known poets including Diane DiPrima, Denise Levertov, Robert Creeley, Jerome Rothenberg, David St. John, Jane Hirshfield, Donald Hall, and many others. Included in the collection is vintage work by Buffalo artist Michael Morgulis.

The broadside as a medium dates back to the 1600s where proclamations were posted in public spaces. The broadside has evolved in recent years to become a venue for limited edition prints by poets and artists as a connection to the historical medium and the tangible object made with deliberate care. Often printed with letterpress or silkscreen methods and signed by the poets, these broadsides range form a very affordable piece of art to highly collectible works.

This rare opportunity to own signed broadsides by noted poets and artists is presented from the collection of White Pine Press at the WNY Book Arts Center 468 Washington St. Downtown Buffalo NY

Live Auction & Sale Friday September 10 7-10 PM
(preview Wednesday & Thursday September 8 & 9, 12-6pm)

Wine & Cheese Reception & Live Auction
September 10 7-10 PM
Auction at 8:30
$8 admission
$10 at the door
$5 for members of WNY Book Arts Collaborative & Just Buffalo Literary Center
Space is limited and may be reserved online at: http://www.wnybookarts.org/broadside.php


An additional number of broadsides will be concurrently listed on an ebay auction starting September 5 at http://shop.ebay.com/wnybac/m.html.

Online preview of broadsides can be seen to the right

All proceeds benefit the non profit groups: WNYBAC & White Pine Press
White Pine Press, established in 1973, is a nonprofit literary publisher of poetry, fiction, and literature in translation.
WNYBAC is a non profit cultural organization dedicated to printing and the book arts.

Register Now- $8

Set-Sale portion includes over 50 broadsides at $20 and under!

Included in Live Auction are:

Just Buffalo / Michael Morgulis Broadside Portfolio – contains broadsides by Maureen Owens, Tom Clark, Joanne Kyger, Ed Sanders, John Daley, and Anselm Hollo

Claribel Alegria – Letter to an Exile (signed)