ANNUAL CHAPBOOK FESTIVAL
Monday May 3 &Tuesday May 4, 2010
The Festival celebrates the chapbook as a work of art and as a vehicle for alternative and emerging writers and publishers. Now in its second year, the festival features a two-day bookfair with chapbook publishers from around the country, workshops, marathon poetry readings, and a closing-night reading of prize-winning Chapbook Fellows.
Co-sponsored by The Office of Academic Affairs, The Center for the Humanities, The Graduate Center and MFA Programs in Creative Writing of the City University of New York, The Center for Book Arts, Poets House, Poetry Society of America, and Poets & Writers
Schedule of Events
BOOKFAIR
1pm to 7pm both days
in the Proshansky Auditorium Lobby, C Level
Free and open to the public
MONDAY, MAY 3, 2010
Workshops
10am – 1pm, C Level Breakout Rooms
Registration required. To attend workshops, please register by e-mailing
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and specifying which workshop you wish to attend.
- 10 – 11:30am Producing Chapbooks: A Workshop for Poets
- 10 – 11:30am Do-It-Yourself Chapbooks: Make and Distribute Your Own
- 11:30am – 1pm Producing Chapbooks: A Workshop for Publishers
- 11:30am – 1pm Chapbooks as Art Objects
Chapbook Poets: a Marathon Reading
2 – 7pm, C Level Breakout Rooms
Free and open to the public
Opening Reception
7 – 8pm, Proshansky Auditorum Lobby
TUESDAY, MAY 4, 2010
Workshops
10am – 1pm, C Level Breakout Rooms
Registration required. To attend workshops, please register by e-mailing
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and specifying which workshop you wish to attend.
- 10 – 11:30am Producing Chapbooks: A Workshop for Poets
- 10 – 11:30am Do-It-Yourself Chapbooks: Make and Distribute Your Own
- 11:30am – 1pm Producing Chapbooks: A Workshop for Publishers
- 11:30am – 1pm Chapbooks as Art Objects
Chapbook Poets: a Marathon Reading
2 – 7pm, C Level Breakout Rooms
Free and open to the public
PSA Chapbook Fellowship reading
7pm, Martin E. Segal Theatre
Followed by reception
Participating publishers
2nd Ave Poetry
Finishing Line Press
Flying Guillotine Press
Greying Ghost Press
Love Among the Ruins
NewLights Press
Pen Press
Pilot Books
Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs
Sarabande Books
Slapering Hol
sunnyoutside
Tarpaulin Sky Press
Toadlily Press
X-ing Press/Agriculture Reader
and many more!
Are you an interested publisher? Please e-mail
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to reserve space at the bookfair.
For information about last year's Chapbook Festival, download the pdf program, or visit the press links below.
"Celebrating the Chapbook: Postcard From New York City", April 2009, Poets & Writers
"Spoils of the Chapbook Fair", April 2009, HTMLGIANT
"A Celebration of the Chapbook", July 2009, 365 Fifth
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