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  • Artist Statement
  • Black Ice Introduction
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  • Paulette Myers-Rich / Traffic Street Press
    Photography, Fine Press Poetry  & Artist Photo Bookworks

    • QUARTET No.I
      QUARTET No. 2
      BLACK ICE
      RIVER REVEAL
      STONE / STONE
      WORK SITES / WORK CITES: VOLUME I
      WORK SITES / WORK CITES: VOLUME II
      NIGHT BY NIGHT
      GHOST POEMS FOR THE LIVING
      BRODER

    • Artist Statement
      Black Ice Introduction
      River Reveal Introduction
      Stone on Stone Introduction
      Work Sites / Work Cites: Introduction
      Ghost Pems for the Living: Introduction
      Broder Introduction
      Fine Press Poetry Books
      CV
      Contact

Fine Press Poetry Publications by Paulette Myers-Rich & Traffic Street Press



TRAFFICKING IN POETRY SERIES


Theology, by J. Otis Powell! letterpress printed, hand-bound in a standard edition of 60 and a deluxe of 15; Minneapolis, MN 1996


Explainging Pictures to a Dead Hare, by Kathleen Heideman; photographs by Ute Klophaus, letterpress printed, handbound in a  standard edition of 50; Minneapolis, MN 1997


Striped Ink, by Greg Delanty; illustration by Paulette Myers-Rich, letterpress printed, pigment print, handbound in a standard edition of 50 and a deluxe of 15; Minneapolis, MN 2000


Love Poems, by Roy C. McBride; drawings by David RIch, letterpress printed, handbound in a standard edition of 35; St. Paul, MN 2006


Bargehand's Dance, by Thomas Kevin O'Rourke; photographs by Paulette Myers-Rich, letterpress printed with pigment prints, handbound in an edition 50; St. Paul, MN 2015


Manos Sucias/Dirty Hands, by Seán Monagle; illustrations by Greg Slick, letterpress printed with pigment prints, handbound in a standard edition of 30,Beacon, NY 2018


The Atlas Trap, by Greg Delanty; illustrations by Zachary Skinner, letterpress printed with lino cuts, loose sheets housed in a handmade wrapper in an edition of 40, Beacon NY 2022



TSP COLLABORATIVE FINE PRESS TITLES


Broder, poems by Anna Reckin; photographs by Paulette Myers-Rich, letterpress printed with pigment prints and handbound in a deluxe edition of 10 and a standard edition of 26, Minneapolis, MN 1999; Minnesota Book Award for Fine Press Books, 2000.


Hoyt Lakes/Shut Down, poems and photographs by Mark Nowak, letterpress printed with pigment prints, handbound in a leporello binding in an edition of 10, St. Paul, MN 2004



TSP POETRY BROADSIDES


Happiness, by Jim Moore, Loft Literary Arts Center portfolio, letterpress printed at Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN 2000


The Composing Room, by Greg Delanty, letterpress printed for typesetting workshop, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN 2004


Reverie In Open Air, by Rita Dove, letterpress printed on the occasion of her reading at the College of St. Catherine, St. Paul, MN 2009


A Ghazal, by Katrina Vandenberg;  illustration by Paulette Myers-Rich, letterpress printed on the occasion of the publication of The Alphabet Not Unlike the World  Milkweed Editions; St. Paul, MN 2012



MINNESOTA CENTER FOR BOOK ARTS PUBLICATIONS


Winter Prairie Woman, by Meridel Le Sueur, illustrations by Sandy Spieler; assistant to master printer Gaylord Schanilec, MCBA Winter Book 1990  https://www.mnbookarts.org/winter-prairie-woman-1990/


Bridge Book, illustrations and texts by Siah Armajani, produced by MCBA and the Walker Art Center; assistant to master printer Gaylord Schanilec, 1991  https://www.shopmnbookarts.org/shop/p/bridge-book-by-siah-armanji


Playing Haydn for the Angel of Death, by Bill Holm; multiple illustrators; served as master letterpress printer, MCBA Winter Book, 1997

https://www.mnbookarts.org/playing-haydn-for-the-angel-of-death-1997/


Winter Ink, by Brian Thao Worra; multiple illustrators; served as master letterpress printer, MCBA Winter Book, 2008

https://www.mnbookarts.org/winter-ink-2008/



O'SHAUGHNESSY IRISH POETRY SERIES


Traffic Street Press & the Center for Irish Studies, University of St Thomas, St. Paul, MN; series editor Dr. Thomas Dillon Redshaw. Each title was produced in collaboration between Paulette Myers-Rich, the poet & their illustrators, signed by all  1999 - 2015


These works may be seen at the O'Shaughnessy-Frey Library Special Collections here:

https://librarysearch.stthomas.edu/discovery/search?query=creator,exact,Traffic%20Street%20Press.,AND&tab=UST_ALL&vid=01CLIC_STTHOMAS:MNPALS&mfacet=location_code,include,3691%E2%80%9313697430003691%E2%80%93spec,1&mode=advanced&offset=0


 

FINE PRESS IRISH POETRY BOOKS


The Fifth Province, by Greg Delanty, wood engraving illustration by Bonnie Christiansen; letterpress printed, handbound in a deluxe edition of 26 & standard edition of 99, Minneapolis, MN 2000


Border Sick Call, by John Montague, photographs by Paulette Myers-Rich; letterpress printed, handbound in a deluxe edition of 15 & standard edition of 50, Minneapolis, MN 2001


Emmigrant Suite, by Eavan Boland, photographs by Paulette Myers-Rich; letterpress printed with pigment prints, handbound in a deluxe edition of 26 & standard edition of 30, Minneapolis, MN 2002


Glenmacnass, by Thomas Kinsella, photographs by Paulette Myers-Rich; letterpress printed with pigment prints, handbound in custom handmade O'Malley Green Crackle flax paper by Cave Paper in a deluxe edition of 26 & standard edition of 30, St. Paul, MN 2003


Two Poems, by Eamon Grennan, letterpress printed pamphlet on the occasion of the ACIS conference at the Univeristy of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN 2003


Six Years, by Thomas McCarthy; line drawings from vintage Irish ballad sheets, letterpress printed and handbound in a leporello binding in a deluxe edition of 16 & standard edition of 30, St. Paul, MN 2004


Winter Birds, by Moya Cannon, ink drawings by Sabine Springer; letterpress printed with pigment prints, handbound in custom hand-marbled by Steven PIttelkow, in a deluxe edition of 26 & standard of 30, St. Paul, MN 2005


Dialann/Diary, by Cathal O'Searcaigh, paintings by Barbara Lea; letterpress printed in two colors; walnut for the Irish and indigo for the English translation, pigment printed illustrations, handbound in a deluxe edition of 17 & standard edition of 29, St. Paul, MN 2006


Sea, poems and photographs by Paula Meehan; photographs altered by Paulette Myers-Rich and pigment printed on vellum sheets over letterpress printed pages, handbound in a deluxe edition of  21 and standard edition of 15, St. Paul, MN 2007


All the Living, by Dennis O'Driscoll; letterpress printed & handbound in a deluxe edition of 26 & standard edition of 18, St. Paul, MN 2008



O'SHAUGHNESSY IRISH POETRY AWARD BROADSIDES 


letterpress printed in various sizes and papers & signed by the poet


Peter Sirr, 1999


Louis de Paor, 2000


Moya Cannon, 2001


Frank Ormsby, 2002


Thomas McCarthy, 2003


Michael Coady, 2004


Kerrie Hardy, 2005


Dennis O’Driscoll, 2006


Sean Lysaght, 2007


Pat Boran, 2008


Mary O’Malley, 2009


Theo Dorgan, 2010


Leanne O’Sullivan 2011


Gerard Smyth, 2012


Leontia Flynn, 2013


Catherine Phil MacCarthy 2014


Paula Meehan, 2015