Al Mutanabbi Street Starts Here collection, 2007-2019

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Series I: Prints

For the printmaking part of this project, Absence and Presence, Beau Beausoleil worked with coordinators from across the US, the UK and Australia. A widely diverse group of printmakers was been assembled from Europe and the US, with additional artists from the Middle East, Asia and Australia. Each print is on a sheet size of 11 x 15 inches. Series consists of 193 numbered prints. Print No. 145 is listed and shelved with broadsides. Prints 69, 128, 142 and 161 are oversize and shelved in a flat box. Artists' statements for these prints are available.



Box 1 No. 1: Afsoon. One thousand and one book


Box 1 No. 2: Alford, Jasper. The Book of Life


Box 1 No. 3: Allen, Lynne D. Conflict


Box 1 No. 4: Alnawar, Hassan. To Change


Box 1 No. 5: Ang, Aloysius. Fire and Paper


Box 1 No. 6: Annand, Peter. Passages


Box 1 No. 7: Aoki, Kathy. I Read


Box 1 No. 8: Ashcroft, Elizabeth. Absence has Presence


Box 1 No. 9: Avery, David. Ex Libris - In Absentia


Box 1 No. 10: Baker, Mavina. all that is lost


Box 1 No. 11: Baxandall, Lucy. Absence and Presence


Box 1 No. 12: Bell, Sherry Smith. Icarus


Box 1 No. 13: Bendib, Kahlil. Al Mutannabi


Box 1 No. 14: Beneman, Chris. Artifact


Box 1 No. 15: Bodman, Sarah. Readers / dreamers


Box 1 No. 16: Bourget, Marie. Thou Reader


Box 1 No. 17: Bouyoucos, Kristine T. Hand in Hand


Box 1 No. 18: Bowden, Pamela. Sintered Book


Box 1 No. 19: Boyle, Martin. Fawzi Remembers Al-Mutannabbi Street


Box 1 No. 20: Brancaforte, Valeria. The Trace of the Butterfly


Box 1 No. 21: Bridge, Virginia. [no title]


Box 1 No. 22: Bridgland, Adam. Empty Bookcases


Box 1 No. 23: Brighton, Carol. Medicine for Memories


Box 1 No. 24: Broekman, Jessyca M. The presence in absence


Box 1 No. 25: Buck, Sissy. Incubating Hope


Box 1 No. 26: Bullick, Molly. Scattered Pages


Box 1 No. 27: Caine, Jennifer L. Amnesia #6: Traces


Box 1 No. 28: Campbell, Nancy. [no title]


Box 1 No. 29: Cannell, Stuart. [no title]


Box 1 No. 30: Cartwright, Catherine. Bookshelf Pyre


Box 1 No. 31: Chalfin, Liz. From the Ashes


Box 1 No. 32: Chew, Karen. Loaded


Box 1 No. 33: Christensen, Khalifah. You Are Free to Express Your Agreement with My Beliefs


Box 1 No. 34: Clark, Patricia Winter, Julie. One Street Mapping


Box 1 No. 35: Cole, Jen. Blood Book


Box 1 No. 36: Connors, Michael. Damage Done


Box 1 No. 37: Corcelle, Christiane. I discovered the World in Al-Mutanabbi Street!


Box 1 No. 38: Cornell, Deborah. Words


Box 1 No. 39: Crookes, Dennis. Nabbi


Box 1 No. 40: Dant, Rebecca. There Will Always Be Words


Box 1 No. 41: Darrahier, Neda. Reed, Read, Red


Box 1 No. 42: Day, Gary. Fireflies


Box 1 No. 43: Day, Mary. Literary, Luminous, Liberation


Box 1 No. 44: Decossard, Sarah. Freedom


Box 1 No. 45: DeForest, Cathy. Our Immortal Soul


Box 1 No. 46: DeLaura, Pamela. History


Box 1 No. 47: deSimone, d'Ann. morphogenesis


Box 1 No. 48: Diessner, Nancy. [no title]


Box 1 No. 49: Dillon, Mikaela. Breach in Communication


Box 1 No. 50: Disslin, Annette. Escaping the Embers


Box 1 No. 51: Dolcetti de Castro, Matilda. Absence and Presence


Box 1 No. 52: Droge, Michel. Scheherezade: Storyteller


Box 1 No. 53: Duignan, Lilla. Absence & Presence


Box 1 No. 54: Dunne, Jessica. Last Edition


Box 1 No. 55: Easton, Theresa. Target


Box 1 No. 56: Evans, Justus. IQRA


Box 1 No. 57: Felce, Christine. For Al Mutanabbi Street


Box 1 No. 58: Fredericks, Stephen. Untitled


Box 1 No. 59: Fuentes, Juan. Iraq


Box 1 No. 60: Garner, Wanda. Torn


Box 1 No. 61: Gendler, J Ruth. Library of Dreams and the Avenue of Booksellers


Box 1 No. 62: Gerasev, Alex. In The Dark


Box 1 No. 63: Gillespie, Oscar J. Heirloom: New Moon


Box 1 No. 64: Gilmore, Ania Zeybekoglu, Annie. Evidence 5114


Box 1 No. 65: Ginsberg-Place, Ruth. Flower from Ruins


Box 1 No. 66: Goldberg, Marsha. Smoke Billows


Box 1 No. 67: Goodale, Rebecca. Take Flight


Box 1 No. 68: Goodman, Ronnie. Our Spirit Still Lives On



Flatbox 2 No. 69: Gossett, Andy. On a Thunder Storm (oversize)



Box 1 No. 70: Halahmy, Oded. Iraq with Love


Box 1 No. 71: Haney, Judy. Tokens


Box 1 No. 72: Haney, Amy. Burning And Rising


Box 1 No. 73: Hanselaar, Marcelle. The Bookseller's Daughter I


Box 1 No. 74: Hansen, Jesse. Life


Box 1 No. 75: Harrell, Gary. No Books-No Wisdom-No Life


Box 1 No. 76: Harrell, Gary. Underground Library


Box 1 No. 77: Hassiba, Andrea. Identity Cards


Box 1 No. 78: Hayden, Martha. The Landing, Presence and Absence


Box 1 No. 79: Hazelwood, Art. Arise from Flame


Box 1 No. 80: Hazlett, David. Put Out Fire With Paper


Box 1 No. 81: Hebeler, Sally. If


Box 1 No. 82: Hilfiker, Arabella. [no title]


Box 1 No. 83: Hill, Wilson. Prosperity


Box 1 No. 84: Hiratsuka, Yuji. Nurturing Spirit


Box 1 No. 85: Ho, Ray. Behold Good and Evil


Box 1 No. 86: Hochberg, Judy Bergman. Shattered Glass, Shredded Paper


Box 1 No. 87: Hom, Nancy. The Vigil


Box 1 No. 88: Homma, Kaori. Looking eastwards beyond the tree of knowledge


Box 1 No. 89: Iancu, Raluca. Up in Smoke


Box 1 No. 90: Ishida, Fumi. Lingering Memory of Sacred


Box 1 No. 91: Jakobson, Sophia. Open Door, Closed Doors


Box 1 No. 92: Johnson, David B. Reading


Box 1 No. 93: Johnson, Sarojini Jha. Angry Jackal


Box 1 No. 94: Johnson, Jaymie. Pyriscene: Seeds Released by Fire


Box 1 No. 95: Kim, Jeuk Aaron. Bridge on Fire


Box 1 No. 96: King, Cathy. Coffee at Shabandar Café


Box 1 No. 97: Klein, Anita. Reading Under the Covers


Box 1 No. 98: Klotz, Deborah. Iron and Air


Box 1 No. 99: Komarow, Ronni. we who once were


Box 1 No. 100: Kosa, Csilla. Presence and Absence


Box 1 No. 101: LaPlante, Mario. Absence/Presence


Box 1 No. 102: Le Bigre, Jodi. Ashes to Ink


Box 1 No. 103: Lee, Sara. Under the same sun


Box 1 No. 104: Leopard, Sue Huggins. Brief Song


Box 1 No. 105: Loach, Roberta. Homage to Al-Mutanabbi


Box 1 No. 106: Luce. And the air is full of spirits


Box 1 No. 107: MacPhee, Josh. Al Mutanabbi Street


Box 1 No. 108: Mahan, Anastasia C. In a Broken City, Poetry Lives


Box 1 No. 109: Malone, Helen Oudyn, Jack. The Presence and Absence of the Light


Box 1 No. 110: Manske, Kent. Knowledge


Box 1 No. 111: Marsh, Mary. Absence and Presence


Box 1 No. 112: Marti, Fernando. The river ran black with ink


Box 1 No. 113: Maruri, Corina. BOOKS NOT BOMBS


Box 1 No. 114: Mase, Marilyn. Covered Words, Shattered Pieces


Box 1 No. 115: Maynard, Elizabeth "Oscar". Flutter of Page


Box 1 No. 116: McCulloch, Katya. The Golden Book of Art


Box 1 No. 117: McCulloch, Katya. Songbirds of Iraq


Box 1 No. 118: McGlamory, Clay. We Must Work For Peace


Box 1 No. 119: Menco, Bert. The Visitation


Box 1 No. 120: Merrill, Hugh. Ledger Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here


Box 1 No. 121: Middleton, Carl. Breath


Box 1 No. 122: Minkler, Doug. Books Not Bombs


Box 1 No. 123: Mitrentse, Christina. Wounded Book Series, War & Peace 2 by Tolstoy


Box 1 No. 124: Moghaddas, Golbanou. The Nourishing River


Box 1 No. 125: Montoya, Emmanuel. Al Mutanabbi / Al Attar


Box 1 No. 126: Morales, Gloria. Keep Going (Adelante)


Box 1 No. 127: Moreno, Anne. Sombras Pasean Por La Casa de Los Recuerdos



Flatbox 2 No. 128: Simmons, Elly. No title (oversize)



Box 1 No. 129: Morth. A New Beginning


Box 1 No. 130: Moulton, Bessie Smith. Gilgamesh / The Pen is Mightier than the Sword


Box 1 No. 131: Mulder, Nan. the mouth of the messenger was heavy; he could not repeat the message


Box 1 No. 132: Mullins, Kevin. This is the End


Box 1 No. 133: Naughton, Nicholas. Rebirth


Box 1 No. 134: Navab, Nahid. Al-Mutanabbi Street, 2007


Box 1 No. 135: Nickerson, Jessie. Untitled


Box 1 No. 136: Olson, Rik. Al-Mutanabbi


Box 1 No. 137: Ormaza, Pedro Francisco. Untitled


Box 1 No. 138: Orso-Giacone, Claudio. …as if God had uttered unnecessary words


Box 1 No. 139: O'Shea, Michael. Re-presence


Box 1 No. 140: Ozgur, Ozlem Ayse. The Death of Hope


Box 1 No. 141: Paki, Mokhtar. Al Mutanabbi Street, Baghdad



Flatbox 2 No. 142: Pawson, Ali. Sanctuary (oversize)



Box 1 No. 143: Perera, Sumi. Transcription, Transliteration, & Translation


Box 1 No. 144: Piazza, Patrick. The People of the Book


No. 145: Pinkle, Amy - see Broadsides


Box 1 No. 146: Plank, Carrie Ann. Absence and Presence


Box 1 No. 147: Potamiandou, Artemis. Moby-Dick: Zero and not


Box 1 No. 148: Rice, Felicia. Roots


Box 1 No. 149: Ripley, Simon. White Flag


Box 1 No. 150: Ripley, Carina. 30/130,000


Box 1 No. 151: Robertson, Phillip. Absence/Presence


Box 1 No. 152: Roleke, Margaret. Targeted


Box 1 No. 153: Rouzie, Susan. Blood


Box 1 No. 154: Rush, Karen. Scribe


Box 1 No. 155: Ryser, Marguerite. Al Mutanabbi Street Starts Here


Box 1 No. 156: Sabour, Wael. "Battered Words"


Box 1 No. 157: Sainsbury, Janet. Reading


Box 1 No. 158: Samler, Bev. Untitled


Box 1 No. 159: Sanchez, Ingrid. Composition in Negative Blue


Box 1 No. 160: Sandstrom, Anders. The helmsman



Flatbox 2 No. 161: Savic, Alison. One day



Box 1 No. 162: Shephard, Liz. Falling Flowers


Box 1 No. 163: Sherin, Delphine. Ubi sunt


Box 1 No. 164: Sierek, Jarostaw (Jarek). The Hermitage


Box 1 No. 165: Silverman, Nomi. AMSP7


Box 1 No. 166: Solis, Veronica. Revolt Against the Sun


Box 1 No. 167: Stepien, Donna. Why I Do Not Know


Box 1 No. 168: Stigliano. Charles A. Fallen Angel


Box 1 No. 169: Stigliano, Stephanie Mahan. Presence and Absence; Two Girls Reading


Box 1 No. 170: Struebing-Beazley, Kristen. Weeping Statue


Box 1 No. 171: Sun, Leon. Resurrection


Box 1 No. 172: Taibah, Sarah. It's My Right to "Read"


Box 1 No. 173: Thein, John. Absence


Box 1 No. 174: Thein, John. Presence


Box 1 No. 175: Thompson, Gillian Garnica, Francisco. Censorship


Box 1 No. 176: Tighe, Joseph. Freedom


Box 1 No. 177: Tim, David. From the Debris We'll Rise


Box 1 No. 178: Tinsley, Frederick P. Mutanabbi St. Explosion 2007


Box 1 No. 179: Tomolillo, Bob. Absence and Presence


Box 1 No. 180: Tsvetkov, Sergei. Arch


Box 1 No. 181: Tu Dai, Angela. Escape


Box 1 No. 182: Van Essen, Gwendolyn. Silent Cry


Box 1 No. 183: Wade, Gini. Peace, in the Name of Allah


Box 1 No. 184: Wani, iram. Streets have souls


Box 1 No. 185: Watanabe, Kazuko. Forgotten Episode


Box 1 No. 186: Welden, Tom. Going, Going


Box 1 No. 187: Williams, Michael. Shield of Wisdom / Knowledge Protexts Wisdom


Box 1 No. 188: Winter, Elaine. We Will Always Make Another


Box 1 No. 189: Wood, Hannah. Preservation of ideas through the distortion of words


Box 1 No. 190: Wylde, Nanette. Propagare


Box 1 No. 191: Yazzie, Melanie A. Rebuilding Memory


Box 1 No. 192: York, Elizabeth. Sad


Box 1 No. 193: Zaka, Zaira Ahmad. Peace after every storm

Series II: Numbered Broadsides

Broadsides were the first focus of the Coalition, which started in March 2007, when Beau Beausoleil put together a memorial reading, and also called for letterpress printers to create a personal response to the bombing. Kathy Walkup at Mills College in California and later Sarah Bodman at the University of the West of England helped spread the word among printers. The broadsides project has been touring internationally since 2008, with associated readings and panel discussions. A complete set of the broadsides has been donated to the Iraq National Library in Baghdad. Florida Atlantic University's digital collection of the "Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here" Broadsides is a convenient way to see 133 printed broadsides (the collection presented to Columbia has 141 broadsides). library.fau.edu/depts/spc/jaffecenter/collection/almutanabbi/ index.php Series consists of 98 numbered broadsides. Broadsides No. 43 and 65 are kept in a larger flat box together with Series III materials. No. 37 is missing.



Flatbox 2 No. 1: Alexander, Charles . Poetry Fetter'd


Flatbox 2 No. 2: Alpers, Rhiannon . At the Dome of the Rock


Flatbox 2 No. 3: Atkinson, Johanna . A Young Soul


Flatbox 2 No. 4: Ardery, Nina. Books not Bombs


Flatbox 2 No. 5: Baldner, Karen. Untitled


Flatbox 2 No. 6: Barlow, Heidi . Al-Mutanabbi Street


Flatbox 2 No. 7: Beech, Devonne . Poetry so Powerful


Flatbox 2 No. 8: Beery, Josef . Printed in Memory of the 130 Victims


Flatbox 2 No. 9: Blevins, Brandon . Al-Mutanabbi St. Starts with You


Flatbox 2 No. 10: Bodman, Sarah . Make Books Not War


Flatbox 2 No. 11: Bolton, Ama . Tears


Flatbox 2 No. 12: Boyden, Ian . To Salah al Hamdani, November 2008


Flatbox 2 No. 13: Brady, Denise . Where do words come from


Flatbox 2 No. 14: Brown, Scott . Words


Flatbox 2 No. 15: Brown, Tina . Reality


Flatbox 2 No. 16: Bruggeman, Inge . In Memory


Flatbox 2 No. 17: Bryan, Tara . TV Terror


Flatbox 2 No. 18: Burch, Kathleen . This is No Symbol


Flatbox 2 No. 19: Butler, Angie; Lilla Duignan. Ode to Mutanabbi


Flatbox 2 No. 20: Callahan, Eileen; Sean Hansen. A Rebuttal


Flatbox 2 No. 21: Cappanera, Loretta. Al-Mutanabbi Street


Flatbox 2 No. 22: Case, Katherine . Grandchildren of Sinbad


Flatbox 2 No. 23: Chabot, Michael . Day In, Day Out


Flatbox 2 No. 24: Chalabi, Nadia . What's Left for Me


Flatbox 2 No. 25: Champnella, Chad. Not Forgotten


Flatbox 2 No. 26: Cohick, Aaron . On Al-Mutanabbi


Flatbox 2 No. 27: Cowder, Deborah . For I Am a Stranger


Flatbox 2 No. 28: Cox, Anna . Start Here


Flatbox 2 No. 29: Cushman, Kerri . Street


Flatbox 2 No. 30: Day, Michael . Al-Mutanabbi


Flatbox 2 No. 31: Day, Michael . Barrenness


Flatbox 2 No. 32: Dern, Marie C; Beau Beausoleil. One


Flatbox 2 No. 33: Disslin, Annette . Where My Books Go


Flatbox 2 No. 34: Durback, Lara. Books Don't Die


Flatbox 2 No. 35: Eastwood, Ivan; Katja Eastwood. Where They Burn Books


Flatbox 2 No. 36: Eddy, Trisia . A Home on al-Mutanabbi Street


Flatbox 2 No. 37: Eftekhari, Masoud . Thought Cannot Be Destroyed (item missing)


Flatbox 2 No. 38: Ellis, Les. Books Were Burned


Flatbox 2 No. 39: Esteves, Karen. Alexandria-48 BC Berlin-May 10, 1933


Flatbox 2 No. 40: Fine, Melissa . Mutanabbi Street Memorial Reading


Flatbox 2 No. 41: Florance, Caren . A Book is Like a Garden


Flatbox 2 No. 42: Friedrich, Bernd. More Than All the Gold



Flatbox 3 No. 43: Gossett, Andy . Peace (More Rare) (oversized)



Flatbox 2 No. 44: Gotthold, Peggy; Lawrence G VanVeltzer. Al-Mutanabbi St. March 5, 2007


Flatbox 2 No. 45: Hearne, Jill . Ways to Count the Dead


Flatbox 2 No. 46: Henry, Barbara . Snow Falls


Flatbox 2 No. 47: Johnston, Alistair. Consign Yourself / Extinction


Flatbox 2 No. 48: Kaup-Augustine, Melissa . Speak Out


Flatbox 2 No. 49: Kennelly, Jane; Michael Caine. Pulp/Pulpe


Flatbox 2 No. 50: Kirby, David G. Kitab-Katib


Flatbox 2 No. 51: Knudson, Ellen. C-NTR-L


Flatbox 2 No. 52: Kranz, Tony . Market Forces Runon


Flatbox 2 No. 53: LaMontagne, Camille. Circle of Prey


Flatbox 2 No. 54: Leech, Tom . Two Poems to My Son Ali


Flatbox 2 No. 55: Lofkvist, Grendl; Dave Stevenson. Bloodstained Pages


Flatbox 2 No. 56: Lohmeyer, Anja. In Memory of Al-Mutanabbi Street


Flatbox 2 No. 57: Main, Jamie . See Them Coming


Flatbox 2 No. 58: Martin, Emily . Not a Straight Line


Flatbox 2 No. 59: McGlamory, Clay. Stupidity Violence


Flatbox 2 No. 60: Morrison, Andrew. A Bookseller


Flatbox 2 No. 61: Moxon, Paul . At the Dome of the Rock


Flatbox 2 No. 62: Munn, Annemarie . 311 and Counting


Flatbox 2 No. 63: Nelson, Kelly . Al-Mutanabbi Street


Flatbox 2 No. 64: Norman, Bonnie Thompson . I Was In a Hurry



Flatbox 3 No. 65: O'Connell, Megan . For Al-Mutanabbi Street (oversized)



Flatbox 2 No. 66: Parkel, Sara. What to Count


Flatbox 2 No. 67: Patchett, Jennifer. A Secret Question


Flatbox 2 No. 68: Pauly, Bettina . There is Still a Sun That Rises


Flatbox 2 No. 69: Peterson, Jessica. Reunion Ghazal


Flatbox 2 No. 70: Plake, Bernd W. And One With a Heavy Load


Flatbox 2 No. 71: Price, Gary H. Glory and Honor Will Be Restored


Flatbox 2 No. 72: Price, Robin . Just Like Any Other Explosion


Flatbox 2 No. 73: Reese, Harry. Forget Regrets


Flatbox 2 No. 74: Queen, Garrett . March 5th, 2007 Mutanabbi Street The Paper Burns…


Flatbox 2 No. 75: Rappoport, Lisa . There is No Abode We Can Call Ours


Flatbox 2 No. 76: Rappoport, Lisa . Solos on the Oud


Flatbox 2 No. 77: Redington, Simon . WHO


Flatbox 2 No. 78: Regis, Dave; Tracy Heller. Looking For War


Flatbox 2 No. 79: Rice, Felicia . Destinies


Flatbox 2 No. 80: Robinson, Lisa Beth . Night in Hamdan


Flatbox 2 No. 81: Rodabaugh, Katrina . Books Exploding


Flatbox 2 No. 82: Rodney, Janet . The Twisted


Flatbox 2 No. 83: Say, John; Sheena Valley. Letterpress Suppressed


Flatbox 2 No. 84: Shattenberg, Greg . A Moment


Flatbox 2 No. 85: Shattenberg, Greg . Adolescence of Burnt Hands


Flatbox 2 No. 86: Smart, Nick. Phoenix


Flatbox 2 No. 87: Smeland, Celeste . Exhaling


Flatbox 2 No. 88: Snell, Roger . Against the Weather


Flatbox 2 No. 89: Spring, Jessica. The Orchard


Flatbox 2 No. 90: Szujewska, Laurie . I Challenge Anyone


Flatbox 2 No. 91: Todaro, Carol . March 9, 2007 Mutanabbi Street Baghdad


Flatbox 2 No. 92: Tsang, Yvonne . Trying to Flee


Flatbox 2 No. 93: Van Ohlen, Alrich. Fall to Hell / No House Without Hope


Flatbox 2 No. 94: Vilmain, Suzanne . Attention


Flatbox 2 No. 95: Virgin, Tom . Smolder, Decay, Renew


Flatbox 2 No. 96: Walkup, Kathleen . Strings


Flatbox 2 No. 97: Young, Gary . The Poet


Flatbox 2 No. 98: Zwick, Ulrich . Fundamentalism

Series III: Unnumbered Broadsides, 2021

An additional group of broadsides in response to the project. Series consists of 44 unnumbered broadsides



Flatbox 3 Baake, Frans. Anyone Who Cares


Flatbox 3 Blassingame, Tia. Extraordinary


Flatbox 3 Borsuk, Amaranth. Outside Santa Fe (stitching by Amy Bouse)


Flatbox 3 Bowden, Phil. What Are Words Worth


Flatbox 3 Bradley, Susan. Moving type


Flatbox 3 Brehmer, Michelle. Until the Glaciers Melt


Flatbox 3 Carter, Mike. The books are burning


Flatbox 3 Colby, Sas. World of Books


Flatbox 3 Cook, Jo. Guide


Flatbox 3 Cutrone, John and Seth Thompson. Occident to Orient


Flatbox 3 Daley, Ken. For it is Written


Flatbox 3 De la Pena, Darren. Mutanabbi Coalition


Flatbox 3 Easton, Theresa. Liberty


Flatbox 3 Flynn, Danny . The Past is our Culture


Flatbox 3 Frickey, Sharon. Al-Mutanabbi Street Many In and Out


Flatbox 3 Gonzalez, Amy and Stephanie Hess. Ideas as bright as bulbs


Flatbox 3 Heller, Tracy and Dave Regis. Looking for War


Flatbox 3 Hope, Tony. Mother Loves Me


Flatbox 3 Ingalls, Cyndi. Thirty-three Beads on a String


Flatbox 3 Ingham, Helen E.. Mutanabbi Street Taking the Lead


Flatbox 3 Kennedy, Madeleine. The Wordsmith's Art


Flatbox 3 Kim, Kyoung. in Korean


Flatbox 3 Kukella, Joseph. He Who Would Be a Prophet


Flatbox 3 Laplante, Maria. Mutanabbi Street Starts Here


Flatbox 3 Matzenbach, Amanda. In the Valley of Love


Flatbox 3 McAleer-Keeler, Kerry & Casey Smith. Language Survival Guide


Flatbox 3 McCarron, Chelsea and Mark Peachey. Sifting


Flatbox 3 Middleton, Carl. Words are the Only


Flatbox 3 Millman, Toby. Solos on the Oud


Flatbox 3 Montford, Carl. Mutanabbi Street: The desert knows me well


Flatbox 3 Morrison, Andrew. Country of Large Rivers


Flatbox 3 Norman, Bonnie Thompson. I Was in a Hurry (Jill Littlewood, artist)


Flatbox 3 O'Connell, Bonnie Pratt. The Murdered Come Out at Night


Flatbox 3 Packer, John. Books for Every Room


Flatbox 3 Pinkle, Amy. Elegy for Susan


Flatbox 3 Ramsay, Celia. For Jamal Jamaa


Flatbox 3 Randall, Karen. The Subtlest Garden in the World


Flatbox 3 Redington, Simon. Who


Flatbox 3 Regis, Dave and Tracy Heller. Looking for War


Flatbox 3 Schanilec, Gaylord. O Land Between Two Rivers


Flatbox 3 Shelby, Leah. Abduction


Flatbox 3 Sowden, Tom. B's


Flatbox 3 Spring, Fiona and Genevieve Yue. The Midwife of Fallujah


Flatbox 3 Tasillo, Mary. I am watching a hawk

Series IV: Bookmarks

The bookmark project started in 2014, with a call to artists to create bookmarks, started by Beau and by UK-based poet/book artist/activist Ama Bolton. This part of the project is a "quiet, bookish" street action, in which each participant was asked to create at least 50 bookmarks incorporating the text "Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here," with no names or web pages included, and then to distribute the bookmarks in "some imaginative place" or by handing them out. Five copies were to be sent in for the archive. The blog https://markerofwitness.wordpress.com/ by poet Ama Bolton details the bookmark project.



Box 5 Bookmarks



Box 6 Bookmarks



Box 7 Bookmarks

Series V: Photographs

The photography project, Shadow and Light, was begun in late 2018 as a response to the assassination of over 300 Iraqi academics between the years 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the U.S.-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. Participants photographers, academics, translators, artists, etc.) from all over the world each selected the name of an assassinated Iraqi academic to memorialize with a photograph, accompanied by a statement, to make visible these individuals. In May of 2023, there are 57 photographs in the project archive.

The list of academics used was found on the website www.iraqsolidaridad.org, which as of 2023 is not live.

Series VI: Printed materials and ephemera

Series consists of articles, exhibition catalogs and other descriptive materials relating to the project.



Flatbox 2 Poster, 2015



Box 4 Magazines, brochures, flyers