Labyris Books Benefit Poetry Series [Audre Lorde, Dolores Prida, Erica Jong]

New York: Labyris Books, [1973]. Poster. Offset. 9 ¾ x 12 ⅓ in. Very good, with mild toning to recto and substantial at verso, not affecting poster image or text. Item #10357

Poster for the a reading series at P.S. 41 in Greenwich Village to benefit Labryis Books, the first–and at the time of this reading, only–feminist bookstore in New York City.

Named for the double-sided ax wielded by Amazon warriors, Labyris was an important meeting place for feminist readers and intellectuals during its tenure in New York’s Greenwich Village from 1972-1977.  Founded in 1972 by lesbian feminist activists Marizel Rios and Jane Lurie, it was a hub of lesbian-separatist thought in New York, and led the way for subsequent feminist bookstores like Womanbooks on the Upper West Side, Women’s Works (later La Papaya) in Brooklyn’s Prospect Heights, and Djuna Books in the West Village.

An document of lesbian poetry from the first feminist bookstore in New York.

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