Chapbooks of the Mimeo Revolution: from The New American Poetry Exhibition: Apr 1 – Apr 12, 2014, Poets House Reception and Panel: Apr 1, 6-9PM Over the past 25 years, Poets House has amassed the largest open-access collection of rare and out-of-print chapbooks in the United States. In Chapbooks of the Mimeo Revolution: from The New American Poetry to The New Sentence, curators Meira Levinson and Kyle Wuagh highlight the [...]
Please Note: The 2014 book fair will take place on Thursday, April 3 from 10AM – 8PM at The Graduate Center, CUNY. Click here for a full list of participating publishers. Click here for workshop and panel participant bios. Tuesday, April 1 Hands-on Workshops with Susan Mills and Karen Randall 10AM – 1PM & 2PM – 5PM, Center for Book Arts To kick off the Chapbook Festival, the Center [...]
The 2014 book fair will take place on Thursday, April 3 from 10AM – 8PM at The Graduate Center, CUNY. Over 60 small presses will display handmade chapbooks and artist books of different shapes, sizes, and materials. Publishers include: Airfoil Chapbooks Argos Books Barebone Books Belladonna* Berl’s Poetry Shop Big Lucks Big Wonderful Press Birds of Lace Bloof Books Bridge Journal Brooklyn Arts Press Center For Books Arts Chax Press [...]
Join us on Wednesday, April 2 at 5PM for Rapid Fire: City Wide Fellows Reading at the Elebash Recital Hall, The Graduate Center, CUNY. Recipients of emerging writers fellowships (from Cave Canem, the Poetry Project, and Poets House) will share recent work in this hour-long introduction to these rising stars. Guillermo Filice Castro is a recipient of the 2013 “Emerge-Surface-Be” fellowship from the Poetry Project. Read his poem, The Neighbor, [...]
> Rapid Fire: City Wide Fellows Reading Wednesday, April 2 at 5PM Elebash Recital Hall, The Graduate Center, CUNY Recipients of emerging writers fellowships (from Cave Canem, the Poetry Project, and Poets House) will share recent work in this hour-long introduction to these rising stars. Poets House: Mahogany Browne, Rosamond King, Elsbeth Pancrazi, Montana Ray, Xeňa Stanislavovna Semjonová Cave Canem: Simone White, Rickey Laurentiis Poetry Project: Guillermo Felice Castro, Krystal [...]
This article can also be found by way of our cosponsor, Poetry Society of America, in their Chapbook Publishers: Q & A series. Iris Cushing & Elizabeth Clark Wessel on Argos Books Iris Cushing is the author of Wyoming, winner of the 2013 Furniture Press Poetry Prize, forthcoming this summer. She lives in New York and is an editor at Argos Books and Circumference: Poetry in Translation. Elizabeth Clark Wessel [...]
Lost & Found Release 4PM, The Graduate Center, CUNY (C-Level) Join us for a celebration of the publication of Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative Series IV, an award-winning, internationally recognized publication of original research and extra-poetic work edited by Graduate Center students and faculty. Editors will read, perform, present multimedia, and discuss their projects, which include the Pauline Kael and Robert Duncan correspondence; a film script by [...]
This article can also be found by way of our cosponsor, Poetry Society of America, in their Chapbook Publishers: Q & A series. Adam Robinson on Publishing Genius Adam Robinson lives in Baltimore, where he runs Publishing Genius, an award winning small press, and works as a publishing consultant. He teaches classes on publishing in the MFA program at University of Baltimore. He is the author of Adam Robison and [...]
A Story of Two Museums: An Ethnographic Exhibition April 3 – June 7, 2014 The James Gallery at The Graduate Center, CUNY The Museum of American Art, Berlin, and The Museum of Jurassic Technology, Los Angeles, are both concerned with the histories of museums as well as the varieties of paths to knowledge. Exhibiting artifacts that cross disciplines of history, art, anthropology, and literature, the museums inherently question those disciplines: [...]
Join us on Wednesday, April 2 at 5PM for Rapid Fire: City Wide Fellows Reading at the Elebash Recital Hall, The Graduate Center, CUNY. Recipients of emerging writers fellowships (from Cave Canem, the Poetry Project, and Poets House) will share recent work in this hour-long introduction to these rising stars. Krystal Languell is a recipient of the 2013 “Emerge-Surface-Be” fellowship from the Poetry Project. Read an excerpt from her poem, TONIGHT [...]
Creative Non-Fiction on the D.I.Y. Watch the video here. As handmade and self-published print publications created and sold within a community, zines offer writers space to express themselves. Panelists discussed all things zine, including: intentional community, privacy and anonymity, publishing in print in a digital age, the freedom of self-publication, print as a political act, and self expression. Poets and Publishers Talk Chapbooks Watch the video here. Poets and publishers [...]
Join us on Wednesday, April 2 at 5PM for Rapid Fire: City Wide Fellows Reading at the Elebash Recital Hall, The Graduate Center, CUNY. Recipients of emerging writers fellowships (from Cave Canem, the Poetry Project, and Poets House) will share recent work in this hour-long introduction to these rising stars. Rangi McNeil is a recipient of the 2013 “Emerge-Surface-Be” fellowship from the Poetry Project. Read his poem, RECIPE, below RECIPE [...]
This article can also be found by way of our cosponsor, Poetry Society of America, in their Chapbook Publishers: Q & A series. MC Hyland on DoubleCross Press MC Hyland is the author of Neveragainland (Lowbrow Press) and the chapbooks Every Night In Magic City (H_NGM_N), Residential, As In ( Blue Hour Press), and (with Kate Lorenz and Friedrich Kerksieck) the hesitancies (Small Fires Press). She runs DoubleCross Press with Jeff Peterson, and is a [...]
Monk Books (Ben Pease and Bianca Stone) is a small press, publishing high-quality chapbook- and full-length titles that often combine poetry and art. For more information visit them at: http://monk-books.com/ Monk Books will have two new chapbooks out in time for the 2013 CUNY Chapfest: NOTES ON MELANCHOLIA by M. A. Vizsolyi Bio: M.A. Vizsolyi’s first book of poems, The Lamp with Wings, was a National Poetry Series selection. His [...]
This article can also be found by way of our cosponsor, Poetry Society of America, in their Chapbook Publishers: Q & A series. Click here to read a poem by Krystal who will be reading at the Rapid Fire: City Wide Fellows Reading on Wednesday, April 2 at 5PM. Krystal Languell on Belladonna* Krystal Languell was born in South Bend, Indiana. Two chapbooks and a full-length collection of poetry are [...]
