Al Mutanabbi Street Starts Here collection, 2007-2019

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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