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Washington Street Press (New York)
Xanadu Press (New York)

are imprints of eMediaLoft.org
and, as such, represent unexpected confluences of words and pictures.

Washington Street Press produces scholarly texts and literary novels by individual authors.
Xanadu Press produces books in which pictures and texts are imaginative and visually linked. Authors and artists often collaborate.

Washington Street Press and Xanadu Press are editied and designed by, and sometimes in collaboration with, media and performance artist and writer in residence, Barbara Rosenthal. Her monthly column of philosophy about the interconnection of art and artist, A Crack in the Sidewalk, appears in Ragazine, and her bookworks are in the collections of The Whitney, MoMA, Tate, Berlin Kunstbibliotek, et al. Our authors conduct their readers toward ideal visions via real experience along paths beaconed by unusual ideas or artifacts or media. They see and present the world in truly unique, incisive ways.
No submissions are accepted; publication is by invitation only.

 

Washington Street Press


poetic license / poetic justice:
a footnote to "the london march" by david antin
with a commentary by charles bernstein

by Allan Douglass Coleman / A. D. Coleman
6" x 9" offset, perfect-bound, glossy cover
44 pgs
January, 2020
IngramSpark Distribution
MORE INFO / BUY NOW:
https://www.amazon.com/poetic-license-justice-commentary-bernstein/dp/0998900435/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=%22poetic+license+%2F+poetic+justice%22&qid=1583176151&sr=8-1

 

Xanadu Press


TIME ON THE MOVE
poetry by Barry Wallenstein, photos by Barbara Rosenthal
The collaboration between you and Barbara Really works — the photos complement the poems precisely because they do not try to complement the poems. But on second or third reading and looking, there are many subtle correspondences. Just one example: “Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow” — that “aerial steed flying joyfully” is brightly evoked by the top photo on the facing page, a rearing carousel horse from the country of childhood. —- Mikhail Horowitz
6" x 9" offset, perfect-bound, glossy cover
30 pgs
34 black-and-white photographs
January, 2020
IngramSpark Distribution
MORE INFO / BUY NOW:
https://www.amazon.com/Time-Xanadu-Press-Barry-Wallenstein/dp/097607933X/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=%22time+on+the+move%22&qid=1583175561&sr=8-2



PARTY EVERYWHERE
by Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
20 pgs
First edition inkjet , saddle stitched, June, 2014.
First edition offset, printed spine, Fall, 2019
Second edition, January, 2020
A 34-page single-poem book of serious fun and autobiographical hints, it contains dozens of Jeffrey Cyphers Wright’s color collages comprising his words among variously shaped portions of appropriated wallpaper, stamps and insignias on which he has scribbled, painted and pasted. The first edition was produced in 2014 while Wright was recipient of a Creative Projects Grant at eMediaLoft, NYC. For this second edition, each page has been re-designed in brilliant color, including the text. The colors and sizes of Wright’s phrases speak them to the reader in various voices: loud, soft, public, private, dialog and narration.

This poem is a manifesto for the nascent ‘eventworks’ movement that stresses collaboration, community and cause-based art. Welcome to the new world ardor —- Michael Andre
Jeff Wright is always running for Mayor of the East Village. -- Richard Hell
20 pgs
IngramSpark Distribution
MORE INFO / BUY NOW:
https://www.amazon.com/Party-Everywhere-Jeffrey-Cyphers-Wright/dp/0976079399/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=%22Party+everywhere%22&qid=1583176064&sr=8-2



SITTING BOOK
by Bonny Finberg
20 pgs
First Edition, Inkjet, Saddle Stitched, 5"x8", Spring 2017.
First edition, Offset, Perfect-bound
MORE INFO / PREVIEW / READ ONLINE / BUY NOW:
PRINTED MATTER Distribution
https://www.printedmatter.org/catalog/47574
ISSUU Distribution
http://www.peecho.com/button/checkout/shorturl?sourceUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fdocument.issuu.com.s3.amazonaws.com


55 ANIMAL JOKES
by Barbara Rosenthal
illustrations by Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
Handmade, boxed edtion of 12, 2016.
Distribution by PRINTED MATTER:
PREVIEW and BUY NOW:
https://www.printedmatter.org/catalog/43370/



75 PLANT JOKES
by Barbara Rosenthal
illustrations by Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
Handmade, boxed edtion of 12, 2018
DISTRIBUTION:
PRINTED MATTER
(212) 925-0325 / (646) 590-3247
CENTRAL BOOKING
info@centralbookingnyc.com

 


NY TIMES COLLAGE BOOK
by Prudence Groube
eMediaLoft Creative Projects Residency Grant, 2015
Handmade unique Artist's Book, Feb, 2015

EVENTS:

The innaugural launch of XANADU PRESS was held in NYC, Friday, April 28, 2017, 6pm at
PRINTED MATTER
231 11th Ave (W. 26th St; E/C to W. 23rd St.)
Xanadu Press co-hosted with Deadly Chaps Press to celebrate the defiitive first edition of Barbara Rosenthal's novel, Wish for Amnesia, (Deadly Chaps Press) and the x a n a d u publications by Bonny Finberg (poet), Prudence Groube (book artist) and Jeffrey Cyphers Wright (poet/collagist). Rosenthal discussed the 38-year process of her novel in relationship to the other 70 image/text/performance/media works by her that Printed Matter offers, and what she means by "Media Poetry." She also spoke about how her art and literary work in overlapping media fits together. All four artist/writers, as well as video artists such as Coleen Fitzgibbon and other mediated thinkers were present to talk about the works they produced or screened at eMediaLoft.org during the past year.
EVENT: https://www.facebook.com/events/239499883124326/

The inaugural launch of WASHINGTON STREET PRESS was held in NYC, Thurssday, February 13, 2020, 6:30pm at
LICTUNDFIRE
175 Rivington St. NYC (Lower East Side)
This event, which launched the WSP first publication, poetic license / poetic justice by Allan Coleman, was held on the 80th birthday of our XANADU PRESS author, Barry Wallenstein, whose book of poetry, Time on the Move launched, also, along with the second edition of Party Everywhere by Jeffrey Cyphers Wright.
The evening was introuduced by Lichtundfire director, Priska Juschka, who gave a small talk about the concurrent exhibition, Suspended Universe.
EVENT: https://www.facebook.com/lichtundfire/photos/gm.1469868019890326/2508060449453520/?type=3&theater

 

SUBMISSION POLICY: None. We publish by invitation only, and make all publications free to read, as well as in print and online for purchase. Enjoy!

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