DIGITAL POETRY SERIES

Each series is a collection of poems dedicated to a critical issue of our time and published here on the Moving Parts Press website. Some poems are interpreted as digital broadsides to print out, or post and share freely. Developments in the dissemination of digitized books, broadsides, prints, and videos, shared online and reproduced freely, […]

IN UKRAINE: POEMS

“Try to look. Just try and see.” —Charlotte Delbo Beau Beausoleil is a poet and activist who has written this series of poems in response to the unprovoked, immoral, and illegal war on Ukraine launched by Vladimir Putin and maintained by those who fear him. Beausoleil sees little difference between this colonialist invasion and the […]

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 […]