On April 19, 2025, the C.C. Stern Type Foundry will be hosting a poetry reading and launch of a new letterpress broadside, “Against Your Departure,” the sixth print in their Pacific Northwest Poets Laureate Broadside series. The event will be held at the Longview Public Library from 4:00-5:30pm.
The new broadside is illustrated and printed by Jessica Spring (Springtide Press in Tacoma, WA) and features a new poem by Washington Poet Laureate Emerita Elizabeth Austen. The event, which features a talk and reading by Elizabeth Austen, is free and open to the public. An exhibit of poetry broadsides from Peasandcues Press and the C.C. Stern Type Foundry can be seen in the Longview Public Library’s Koth Memorial Gallery from April 3-30, 2025.