A collaboration between Justin Sirois and Aaron Cohick of Newlights Press, these three broadsides are letter-pressed and hand "destroyed", making them unique each time.

The Mutanabbi Street broadsides have exhibited in:

San Francisco Center for the Book, San Francisco, Calif.
Saratoga Library, Saratoga Calif.
San Francisco Zen Center, San Francisco, California
Carleton College, North Dakota
The Rooms Museum, St. John's Newfoundland, Canada
The Thoreau Center, San Francisco, California
Northern Print, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
U.W.E. Bristol, UK.
Inkspot Studio, Brighton, UK.
  • Necking with Vladimir Nabokov
    Necking with Vladimir Nabokov
    Newlights Press 2002 Aaron Cohick of Newlights Press and Justin Sirois have collaborated for nine years on chapbooks, broadsides, and a reading series. Aaron Cohick is now Printer of the Press at Colorado College.
  • on al Mutanabbi Street
    poem on the broadside
  • MLKNG SCKLS excerpt for broadside
  • Al-Mutanabbi Street broadside
    Al-Mutanabbi Street broadside
    The back of the Al-Mutanabbi Street broadside.
  • Al-Mutanabbi Street broadside
    Al-Mutanabbi Street broadside
    Painstakingly designed, each letter is cut by hand with an Exacto blade then the print is peeled off, layer by layer, to create a uniquely destroyed broadside.
  • from MLKNG SCKLS
    from MLKNG SCKLS
    Painstakingly designed, each letter is cut by hand with an Exacto blade then the print is peeled off, layer by layer, to create a uniquely destroyed broadside.
  • both broadsides
    both broadsides
    Painstakingly designed, each letter is cut by hand with an Exacto blade then the print is peeled off, layer by layer, to create a uniquely destroyed broadside.
  • from MLKNG SCKLS
    from MLKNG SCKLS
    Excerpt from MLKNG SCKLS - title 91% Battery Powerr Remaining - Aaron Cohick of Newlights Press and Justin Sirois have collaborated for nine years on chapbooks, broadsides, and a reading series. Aaron Cohick is now Printer of the Press at Colorado College.
  • detail of broadside in progress
    detail of broadside in progress
    Aaron Cohick of Newlights Press and Justin Sirois have collaborated for nine years on chapbooks, broadsides, and a reading series. Aaron Cohick is now Printer of the Press at Colorado College.
  • On Al-Mutanabbi
    On Al-Mutanabbi
    Poem by Justin Sirois, Arabic translation by Haneen Alshujairy, Letterpress with hand-mechanical printing, and delamination, Variable edition of 15, 12" x 18"---------- This poem and broadside were made as part of the Al-Mutanabbi Street Broadside Project. On March 5, 2007, a car bomb exploded on Al-Mutanabbi Street, the center of bookselling in Baghdad, killing 30 people and wounding 100 others. The Al-Mutanabbi Street Coalition sent out an international call to letterpress printers to craft a visual response that would bring attention to this bombing. __________ Aaron Cohick of Newlights Press and Justin Sirois have collaborated for nine years on chapbooks, broadsides, and a reading series. Aaron Cohick is now Printer of the Press at Colorado College.
  • Necking with Vladimir Nabokov
  • Al-Mutanabbi Street broadside
  • Al-Mutanabbi Street broadside
  • from MLKNG SCKLS
  • both broadsides
  • from MLKNG SCKLS
  • detail of broadside in progress
  • On Al-Mutanabbi