Please Note: The 2015 book fair will take place on Thursday, April 2 from 10AM – 7PM at The Graduate Center, CUNY. Click here for a full list of participating publishers.   Monday, March 23 By the Glass- Chapbook Meet and Greet The Council of Literary Magazines and Presses Tuesday, March 31- Saturday, May 23 Seeking the Glyph: The Glyphic Works of Edward Sanders Poets House- 10 River Terrace, New York, [...]

Tuesday Mar 31 at 6:00PM Poets House - 10 River Terrace, New York, NY 10282 6pm: Opening Reception and Exhibition Tour with Edward Sanders 7pm: A Discussion with Edward Sanders and Lost & Found: Series V editors Alex Wermer-Colan, Gabrielle Kappes, Kai Krienke, and Zohra Saed Please join artist Edward Sanders as he discusses his both his glyphic works and his personal archive, classified chronologically in banker boxes since the early sixties, and including hand-drawn glyphs, ephemera, [...]

Hands-on Workshops with Barbara Henry and Celine Lombardi Wednesday April 1 at 10AM – 1PM & 2PM – 5PM Center for Book Arts- 28 W 27th St, New York, NY 10001 RSVP required: Click here to RSVP. To kick off the Chapbook Festival, the Center for Book Arts will host workshops on hand-bookbinding and letterpress printing for writers, taught by artists Barbara Henry and Celine Lombardi. Workshops run 10AM-1PM and 2PM-5PM. You [...]

Wednesday, April 1, 3:15-4:30 Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street Margaret Liebman Berger Forum, Room 227 Get a behind the scenes look at the New York Public Library’s chapbook collections with Isaac Gewirtz and Karen Gisonny, including the history of the Library’s collections, the evolution of the genre in Europe and America, and current collecting of chapbooks and zines since the 1970s. Rare chapbooks from the Library’s [...]

Wednesday Apr 1 at 6:30 pm Martin E. Segal Theatre, The Graduate Center, CUNY Come celebrate five years of Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Archive Initiative with Ammiel Alcalay and Aiobheann Sweeney, along long-time friends of the press: Thurston Moore, Anne Waldman, and Dorothy Wang. Each speaker will read from and comment on pivotal texts published by Lost & Found Series I-V, touching upon the works and impact of writers [...]

            Thursday, April 2, 10AM-6pm C-Level, The Graduate Center, CUNY This year at the 2015 NYC/CUNY Chapbook Festival, CLMP will be offering free consultations and will be debuting a new chapbook and zine regrant opportunity funded through the New York State Council for the Arts. Stop by the book fair and visit our table and for a free consultation with our staff to learn more [...]

Thursday, April 2, 11AM C-Level, The Graduate Center, CUNY Melissa Faliveno, associate editor of Poets & Writers Magazine, talks with chapbook publishers and authors to discuss the collaborative publishing process, innovative forms and expanding genres, and how to get your work into print. Featuring Shanna Compton and Jackie Clark of Bloof Books, Joe Pan and Dominique Townsend of Brooklyn Arts Press, Bianca Stone and Alina Gregorian of Monk Books, Emily Skillings and Emily Brandt of No, Dear, and MC Hyland and JenMarie Macdonald of DoubleCross Press. Participant Bios Emily Brandt is the author [...]

Thursday, April 2, 12:30PM C-Level, The Graduate Center, CUNY The chapbook is a platform for experimentation that expands the notion of how publications function and writing performs. Deeply interdisciplinary, the form predicts future hybrid genres. Kimiko Hahn moderates a discussion with Karl Larocca a.k.a. Kayrock from Kayrock Screenprinting, Jacqueline Waters from The Physiocrats, and Rachael Michelle Wilson and Ada Smailbegović from The Organism for Poetic Research, all of whom combine text and [...]

                  Thursday, April 2, 1:30PM C-Level, The Graduate Center, CUNY Recent recipients of fellowships from Cave Canem Foundation, the Poetry Project, and Poets House share their work in this lunch hour introduction to the rising stars. Featuring: Poets House: J. Mae Barizo, Vincent Toro and Stephen Boyer Cave Canem: Adrienne Christian and Jonterri Gadson Poetry Project: Miriam Atkin, Maxe Crandall, and Morgan Vo [...]

Thursday, April 2, 3PM C-Level, The Graduate Center, CUNY Last year, the all-girls publishing collective Raven Press from Academy for Young Writers High School was asked to participate in a panel on writing, editing, and publishing as pedagogical practices. There, we asked: How do self-expression and self-publication inspire community-building and inform a sense of personal efficacy? If we produce and distribute our own chapbooks, pamphlets, poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, are [...]

Thursday, April 2, 4:30PM C-Level, The Graduate Center, CUNY The Graduate Center has a long history of harboring educators, administrators, and activists who double as poets and publishers. In “Teaching Language in Open Admissions,” Adrienne Rich writes: “I think of myself as a teacher of language: that is, as someone for whom language has implied freedom, who is trying to aid others to free themselves through the written word, and [...]

Thursday, April 2, 7:00PM Thirteenth Street Repertory Theatre -50 W 13th St, New York, NY 10011 The Poetry Society of America launched the PSA Chapbook Fellowship Program in 2003 to encourage and support talented poets who have not yet published a first book. Each year, four distinguished contemporary poets select and introduce a chapbook by a new poet. Since the inception of the program, the PSA has introduced 44 new voices—next [...]

This article can also be found by way of our cosponsor, Poetry Society of America, in their Chapbook Publishers: Q & A series.     Shanna Compton on Bloof Books Shanna Compton is the author of the poetry collections Brink, For Girls & Others, Down Spooky, and several chapbooks. The Hazard Cycle, a book-length speculative poem, is forthcoming from Bloof Books in 2015. She is the founding member of the Bloof Books collective and works as a freelance [...]

This article can also be found by way of our cosponsor, Poetry Society of America, in their Chapbook Publishers: Q & A series.   Bianca Stone on Monk Books Bianca Stone is a poet and visual artist. Her books include the poetry collection Someone Else’s Wedding Vows (Tin House/Octopus Books 2014), and Antigonick, a hybrid collaboration with Anne Carson (New Directions 2012). She is co-founder and editor of the press Monk Books, and she runs the Ruth [...]

This article can also be found by way of our cosponsor, Poetry Society of America, in their Chapbook Publishers: Q & A series. *** *** Emily Brandt and Alex Cuff on No, Dear   Emily Brandt is the author of two chapbooks: ManWorld (dancing girl press) and Behind Teeth (Full Court Books). She earned her MFA from New York University where she facilitated the Veterans Writing Workshop. Emily is a co-founding editor of No, Dear magazine, the Web [...]

This article can also be found by way of our cosponsor, Poetry Society of America, in their Chapbook Publishers: Q & A series.   Carl Annarummo on Greying Ghost Press Carl Annarummo is the author of The Soft War (Poor Claudia, 2014) and is managing editor of Greying Ghost. He currently resides in the Boston area with his chubby black cat, Roxanne. * * *  What is your own personal history with chapbooks? How did they first [...]