The Paper Plant

03/23/2026

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09/18/2024

Michele Richards was an early supporter of The Paper Plant. I remember first meeting her at a reading above the old store in a space I was hoping to move into when Kimi Julian brought her and introduced us. Here is a wonderful broadside of a poem she asked me to publish. Proud to add it to the Paper Plant catalog. https://raleighrambles.com/2024/09/18/geminids-a-poem-by-michele-richards/

08/18/2024

Great news about a favorite reader from the early "Glory's Diner days of the Thursday Night Open Mike.

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06/14/2023

Partly due to malware infecting the website and its blog, partly planned eventually, The Paper Plant website and blog have closed. If you want to browse (or buy from) the archive and publishing stock, come see us in Asheville. In a couple of years, I will be negotiating the best possible home or homes for that archive, and I will keep uoi apprised. Retirement with a young grandson is the best, but i will still keep promoting book arts and the unique Raleigh creative community which gathered around the Paper Plant. This Raleigh Rambles page will preserve the essentials (more to come there over time).

The Paper Plant is a small press and book arts enterprise which became the nexus of Raleigh alternative arts in the ’80s. John Dancy-Jones, publisher, printer, and papermaker, continues with …