Art Poetry Melodrama
Artist
The Alternative Press
Date1989
MediumLetterpress on paper
DimensionsPaper Size: 7 1/2 × 11 in. (19.1 × 27.9 cm)
ClassificationsPrint
Credit LineGift of Gary Eleinko, 2023
Object numberUAC7453.25
DescriptionTHE ALTERNATIVE PRESSArt Poetry Melodrama
Hand-printed broadsides, postacards, bookmarks, bumperstickers
etc. from the Grindstone pressroom of Ann & Ken Mikolowski
"A mailing from The Alternative Press is the kind of event that makes
it worthwhile getting your mail - even if everything else is a bill, or
addressed to 'occupant.' The envelope contains hand-made photo-collages,
orginal drawings, paintings, calligraphy, sketches, poems, epigrams,
sometimes even wrought metal. The expirence of opening an Alternative
press envelope is like encountering the living room floor on Christmas
morning, a profusion of delights. It makes the U.S. Post Office, even in
its current state of collapse, a worthwhile institution"
-The Small Press Book Club
Recent mailings have included new work by Faye Kicknosway
Alice Notley, Ted Berrigan, Gordon Newton, Anne Waldman,
Jim Gustafson, Eileen Myles, Allen Ginsberg, Andrei Codrescu
Robert Creeley, Donna Brook, Robert Sestok, Lyn Hejinian
Chris Tysh, Bill Berkson, Robert Hershon, Rosemarie Waldrop
Edward Dorn, Brenda Goodman, Tom Clark, Kenward Elmslie
2 issues/ $15
Published by The Alternative Press, Packet Number Sixteen.
