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Feb

3

2014

Blue Begonia Press Letterpress Demo

Those beautiful broadsides and printed cards you find in your favorite bookshops? They’re probably done on a letterpress. Here’s a video from Dan Peters at the Blue Begonia Press showing a letterpress at work in all its old-fashioned glory. (And if you want more about letterpress, revisit this oldie but goodie essay from Mark Holtzen.) Special thanks …

Apr

12

2011

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Poems Fluttering in the Yakima Breeze

For the last ten years, the editors at Blue Begonia Press in Yakima, WA, have kept a poetry pole in the press’s front yard. Passersby press their poems to it with colored pushpins, and the press also receives poems by mail from all over the world. Jim Bodeen, the press’s resident poet and editor, describes …