This article, by Kendra Sullivan of the CUNY Center for the Humanities, was originally published by Omniverse. Chapbooks value the personal over the commercial and the hand-made over the mass-produced. They are the material outcroppings of immaterial friendships, exchanges, and performances, the byproducts of a widely-dispersed but tightly-knit community of writers and artists for whom collaboration and book production are a natural extension of the writerly gesture. Chapbooks are as [...]