Ghost Coast: A Collaborative Artists' Book with Granary Books, Julie Harrison, and E.J. McAdams
Join Granary Books, and the Lower East Side Ecology Center for a celebration of a new collaborative artists' book: Ghost Coast, by artist Julie Harrison and poet E.J. McAdams.
This project, subtitled "A Hurricane Sandy Periplus of Lower Manhattan," is an experimental verbal and visual remembrance of the coastline reconfigured by Hurricane Sandy. Published by Granary Books, the book was hand-produced with sustainable materials by printer Uncommonbindery and binder John DeMerritt under the direction of Mary Catherine Kinniburgh. This event features short talks by the poet, artist, and publisher, and we'll be joined by the LES Ecology Center, whose work fosters community-based models of sustainability in New York City.
PARTICIPANTS
E.J. McAdams: E.J. McAdams is a poet, artist, and collaborator exploring language and mark-making in the urban environment using procedures and improvisation with found and natural materials. He won the Action, Spectacle Chapbook Contest for SOMEHOW which was published in February 2026 and he has a collaboration, GHOST COAST, with the artist Julie Harrison coming out from Granary Books in Spring 2026. He published his first full-length poetry book called LAST from BlazeVox [books] in 2023, and has published five chapbooks. Ugly Duckling Presse published his 4x4 — “BOOM/BOOM/BOOM/BOOM” — as the inaugural poem in its Poste series. He had a solo exhibition, an installation called Trees Are Alphabets, at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, and a mail-art piece in a group show at Phoenix Art Museum. His poems have been published in The Brooklyn Rail, Pamenar Online Magazine, The Paris Review, EOAGH, eccolinguistics, About Place Journal, unarmed journal, and others. He was chosen by Laura Mullen and Angela Hume for 'Heir Apparent' in The Volta's Trash Issue which featured a visual TRANSECT. Another visual poetry project, “Wayfaring,” was covered by author Robert Sullivan on A Public Space's blog. He curated the Social-Environmental-Aesthetics reading at EXIT ART from 2009-2012 and was a founding board member of the interdisciplinary Laboratory of Art Nature and Dance (iLAND).
Photo credit: Stephen DeVita.
Julie Harrison: Julie Harrison is a New York City- and Hudson Valley-based visual artist whose work engages with science and technology to explore the dualities of nature and artifice. Her experimental, process-driven practice has received numerous awards (NYFA, NYSCA, NEA among others) and exhibited widely. Solo shows include exhibitions at the Garrison Art Center, Southern Vermont Arts Center, Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, Crescent Tree Gallery (Claremont CA), Wekalet Behna(Alexandria Egypt), and Thundergulch (NYC). Her work also appeared in group exhibitions at major institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art (NYC), Museum of Arts & Design (NYC), The New Museum (NYC), the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Neuberger Museum of Art, Albany State Museum, Smith College Museum of Art, the Museum of the Moving Image (NYC), and the Walker Art Center. Internationally, her work has been shown at the Staatliche Museum (Baden-Baden), MünchnerStadtmuseum (Munich), and Museum für Angewandte Kunst (Frankfurt). Her book work is held in special collections at institutions such as The Getty, the Library of Congress, and several major universities including Harvard, Columbia, Yale, and Brown. For eighteen years, Harrison was a professor of art at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken NJ, where she founded the Art & Technology B.A. program. Th archive of Harrison’s participation in Collaborative Projects, a downtown artists’ group active in late 1970s–’80s, as well as some early works, is held at The New York Public Library.
Photo credit: Star Black.
Mary Catherine Kinniburgh: Mary Catherine (M.C.) Kinniburgh is a co-director (with Steve Clay) of Granary Books, a rare book and archives dealer and artist’s book publisher. She specializes in twentieth century and contemporary poetry, archives, and artists' books, as a former literary manuscripts specialist at The New York Public Library, with a PhD from The Graduate Center, CUNY. She wrote Wild Intelligence: The Politics of Knowledge and Postwar American Poets' Libraries (University of Massachusetts Press, 2022), and is co-editor with Steve Clay of After Words: Visual and Experimental Poetry in Little Magazines and Small Presses, 1960–2025 (Granary Books, 2025). She is also the editor of bibliographies, histories, and works related to Telephone Books (Maureen Owen), Gregory Corso, Diane di Prima, Mary Korte, Cecilia Vicuña and James O’Hern, and other poets. She has published dozens of works with her own small press imprints, TKS Books and Subseries, and is a member of the Grolier Club, the Bibliographical Society of America (Publications Committee), the Society for Textual Scholarship, and the Association for Book Art Education (CBAA). Her work has been featured in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Poetry Foundation, ArtForum, Literary Hub, and other publications.
