22 July 2016

Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Broadsides

A selection of broadsides from the Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Coalition collection. This collection is a response from around the world to the March 5, 2007 bombing of Al-Mutanabbi street in Baghdad. A street of booksellers where poets and intellectuals would gather to write, browse, and share ideas.

"Speak Out" printed by Melissa Kaup-Augustine.


                                                   
"Pulp/Pulpe" printed by Jane Kennelly and Michael Caine.


"Kitab + Katib" printed by David G. Kirby.


"Markey Forces Runon" printe by Tony Kranz.



"Two Poems to My Son Ali" printed by Tom Leech. Text by Abd al-Wahhab al-Bayati, translated by Mouah A. Khouri and Hamid Algar.

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