Bringing Flowers to Salinas Valley State Prison

Poem by Ellen Bass Drawing by Felicia Rice Limited edition of 100 9″ x 13″ $60 Order from the publisher, hit & run press, on their website here. Ellen Bass signing Felicia’s copy of the  broadside of her poem, “Bringing Flowers to Salinas Valley State Prison.”

Broadsides for 2020 Santa Cruz Community Fire Recovery

The poems in this series were selected by Felicia Rice from the work of noted Santa Cruz poets Ellen Bass, Danusha Laméris, and Gary Young. Each poem addresses issues of loss and recovery in the face of crisis. Felicia designed and printed these limited edition broadsides in her new studio in Mendocino where she has […]

THE THING IS broadside — 2002

Poem by Ellen Bass Drawing by Kay (Kathryn) Metz Limited edition of 50 22″ x 30″ out of print due to 8/20 fire In 2002, this broadside was produced with support of the Porter College Hitchcock Poetry Fund. In 2020, a second interpretation of the same poem was printed as a broadside in response to […]

POEMS OF THE PANDEMIC

During the pandemic we have been told our communities will re-open in phases. This series of poems reminds us that while we suffer through the closing, there is an opening to be found in each phase, and that our communities will never be the same. As our cities and towns reinvent themselves after isolation, we […]