Al Mutanabbi Street Starts Here collection, 2007-2019

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Series II: Numbered Broadsides

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