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Based in Columbus, GA / Currently waking from a long, deep slumber.John Harkey/Felix Fardohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12811025587674013905noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6403627102993925070.post-2557107771977604342015-04-26T15:06:00.001-07:002015-04-26T20:31:32.213-07:00Pics of the New Chapbook<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
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<br />John Harkey/Felix Fardohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12811025587674013905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6403627102993925070.post-1852912600879849922015-04-19T13:51:00.000-07:002015-04-26T16:07:44.847-07:00New Chapbook: Sarah Campbell, *What You Thought Was a Book*<form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" target="_top">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Creature Press is thrilled to publish a new chapbook from small-poem master Sarah Campbell, whose other books include <i><a href="http://littleredleaves.com/ebooks/catalog/sarah-campbell-everything-we-could-ask-for">Everything We Could Ask For </a></i> (Little Red Leaves) and <i><a href="http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9780989313216/we-used-to-be-generals.aspx">We Used to Be Generals</a> </i>(Further Other Book Works). <i>What You Thought Was a Book </i>consists of 13 brilliantly spare, bent poems strewn across both sides of a 24 lb. sheet of 100% cotton paper. Each sheet has been <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">slowly and carefully crumpled, then placed into a chipboard box.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As you open / un-crumple the book—glimpsing text, turning the object, straightening paper—you will find another and another poem. Open and close the book again and again, rearranging its shape to feature a different poem each time. Place the book on a desk or shelf so that some given text stares out. Next day, re-open and re-crumple the paper so a different poem is presented. And so on. </span><br />
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John Harkey/Felix Fardohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12811025587674013905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6403627102993925070.post-59962397999667435202015-02-01T12:07:00.000-08:002015-10-12T07:16:01.801-07:00Cassandra Gillig Chalk BroadsidesEach of these heavyweight, 11x17, linen-textured blue sheets of paper contains one of three handwritten-in-chalk excerpts from Cassandra Gillig's poem "The Felt the Body Understood."<br />
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John Harkey/Felix Fardohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12811025587674013905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6403627102993925070.post-26838815124699362992014-03-13T08:48:00.001-07:002014-03-13T08:48:29.929-07:00Creature Press at ETERNiDAY: Books, Broadsides, a Reading, a Panel<div>
In case you're able to make it to the Queens Museum in Flushing this Saturday, Creature Press will be part of the ETERNiDAY event in three ways: 1) books and new broadsides for sale as part of the book fair, 2) a reading that includes Cassandra Gillig, whose work appears on the new CP broadsides, and 3) a panel discussion on "alternative forms" of publication for poets, writers, and artists. </div>
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Nightboat Books (John Keene, Gracie Leavitt), Creature Press (Cassandra Gillig), Futurepoem (Mina Pam Dick)<div>
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John Harkey (Creature Press), Stephen Motika (Nightboat Books), Sol Aramendi (Project Luz), Christopher Stackhouse (This Red Door Series). This panel will explore independent publishing and literary events. Presenting a variety of perspectives, the panel hopes to inspire poets, writers and artists to search for alternative forms of distribution for their work.</div>
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These will be for sale on Saturday as part of the "ETERNiDAY" festival of the language arts at the Queens Museum in NYC: <a href="http://eterniday2014.wordpress.com/">http://eterniday2014.wordpress.com/</a> Come by if you can!</div>
John Harkey/Felix Fardohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12811025587674013905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6403627102993925070.post-43510583159629301022014-03-06T05:42:00.001-08:002014-03-06T05:43:45.693-08:00March 5: ETERNiDAY, The Queens Poet Lore Festival!<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
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I'll have some Box-books, some copies of Absolute Hist, some ephemera, and some brand new broadsides! Official announcement on those very soon, but here's a peek at one of the sheets in its lovely-raw state:</div>
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<br />John Harkey/Felix Fardohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12811025587674013905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6403627102993925070.post-50036184764008173912014-02-06T10:09:00.002-08:002014-02-06T17:05:52.798-08:00Forthcoming, 2015: Fel Santos, All ConvulsionsCreature Press is thrilled to announce its first venture into full-length projects. Sometime next year, we will be publishing Fel Santos' book <i>All Convulsions</i>. Santos is a dynamic sound poet from Woodside, NYC (a neighborhood in Queens), so it will be exciting to see how he "translates" his work into page-based book-form.<br>
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Here is a sample of Santos' work, a recent collaboration with electronic artist David Mason:<br>
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<br>John Harkey/Felix Fardohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12811025587674013905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6403627102993925070.post-45973437099265032982014-02-06T09:58:00.001-08:002014-02-06T09:58:37.488-08:00The Slumbering Creature Stirs, Cracks an Eye<span style="font-family: arial;">Creature Press has been hibernating, but the weather's giving way, and there are things that need to be foraged for and also fashioned. Please stay tuned for news and new projects, all coming soon but in staggered, staggering steps. "Keep your ears peeled," as they say around these parts.</span>John Harkey/Felix Fardohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12811025587674013905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6403627102993925070.post-53871091929717103172010-10-28T19:23:00.000-07:002010-10-28T19:25:46.946-07:00Paolo Javier, 10/28/2010<iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxgiHC82HQMXI9npImxyRWiT1WlsCx9xlt2LuNDe0NbUrXWPBEeTpGPiQDObOoRHDY2cYlQVwsuq4NRTezb9g' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe>John Harkey/Felix Fardohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12811025587674013905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6403627102993925070.post-80913678805073759262010-10-07T11:53:00.000-07:002010-10-07T12:33:27.603-07:00New York Book Fair Expo, Sunday 10/10This Sunday, from 11am to 6pm, Creature Press will be at the Queens Museum of Art, for the <a href="http://www.newyorkbookfairexpo.com/nota.php?idd=41">New York Book Fair Expo (click for more info).</a> Directions <a href="http://www.queensmuseum.org/about/general-information/visitinfodirections">here. </a><br /><br />Please stop by if you can---say hello, look at some books, etc. Thanks to Creature Press/Queens Poet Laureate/<a href="http://www.2ndavepoetry.com/">2nd Ave Poetry</a> personage, Paolo Javier, I will be in rich company, at a table with my elders, as it were: Mark Lamoureux's <a href="http://cygistpress.blogspot.com/">Cy Gist Press</a> and Eugene Lim's <a href="http://www.ellipsispress.com/">Ellipsis Press</a>.John Harkey/Felix Fardohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12811025587674013905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6403627102993925070.post-2982506523125361272010-09-22T12:31:00.000-07:002015-04-21T19:26:54.235-07:00Introducing: 'Absolute Hist,' by Cecil Church<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1bKVdUMnVY5CN7Dqp4Ti-utkIFZQi-K3TOfnnjut5a576g3fWswqxwx9BuTKI05wqeNlqsRiVAWzlP0Ettu3yGAVoQPDyqASpPGL5r7GI0W8KfmefxQZBmruZzGvTkA08IIoVbWh5Ymk/s1600/P1000719.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1bKVdUMnVY5CN7Dqp4Ti-utkIFZQi-K3TOfnnjut5a576g3fWswqxwx9BuTKI05wqeNlqsRiVAWzlP0Ettu3yGAVoQPDyqASpPGL5r7GI0W8KfmefxQZBmruZzGvTkA08IIoVbWh5Ymk/s320/P1000719.JPG" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5519823221932513250" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 240px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 320px;" /></a><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWULbr9PiTQgWf4yNGwMl9wpnBg6Iv0rsFAsTFYhtiS3z6p-s08BqaDBmEV7ygtjeUQ_1Ltt6x2QpWgXk-da6EDTXJ5k3Q3XYIekneNdJF6m31aEH_GW1edVq0Bg5B8pxOJlATHpEZJAY/s1600/P1000720.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWULbr9PiTQgWf4yNGwMl9wpnBg6Iv0rsFAsTFYhtiS3z6p-s08BqaDBmEV7ygtjeUQ_1Ltt6x2QpWgXk-da6EDTXJ5k3Q3XYIekneNdJF6m31aEH_GW1edVq0Bg5B8pxOJlATHpEZJAY/s320/P1000720.JPG" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5519824755141439842" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 240px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 320px;" /></a><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span>Creature Press is proud to announce the publication of its fourth chapbook, ABSOLUTE HIST, an enigmatic pamphlet by the reclusive Cecil Church. The book, produced in an edition of 75, is quarto-size; its cover is made of re-purposed material; and the black text within (14 pt. Garamond) is printed on black paper (30 lb. linen). The words, like scratches on a shard of raw coal, are at first difficult to make out, but with dexterity and devotion they are plainly legible. You are invited to investigate.<br />
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John Harkey/Felix Fardohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12811025587674013905noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6403627102993925070.post-2917259038890406292010-08-28T09:27:00.000-07:002010-08-30T06:37:15.574-07:00Another News Flash: Tonya Foster Reading- 8/31, The Katrina ProjectNew York poet Tonya Foster, whose chapbook "Bibliography" Creature Press boasts as one of its inaugural trio of publications, will be reading in Bryant Park this coming Tuesday, August 31st, as part of an event remembering Hurricane Katrina, which hit 5 years ago. As she hails from New Orleans, Foster has an acute connection to the catastrophe and its ongoing aftermath. <br /><br />Last-minute notification, but please come by if you're available. It should be an amazing reading, and it doesn't even cost a thin dime. Here are the particulars:<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Aug. 31:</span><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Katrina Project Presents Poetry</span><br />7:00pm – 8:30pm | Bryant Park Reading Room <br />FREE<br /><br />Nicole Cooley<br />Tonya Foster<br />Yusef Komunyakaa<br /><br />Rain Venue(s):<br />*The General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen<br />20 West 44th Street (between 5th & 6th Avenues)<br /><br />Tonya Foster's Creature Press chapbook, from which she may read on Tuesday, charts an effort to recover a state where "speech is possible" in the wake of what seems like unspeakable devastation. Foster does this by "taking in her mother / landscape," elaborating a dense abecedarian catalogue of names, things, and phrasings that saturate her experience of that landscape. Read straight through, the book reveals itself as a dizzying litany of the sacred and the mundane, the plain and the obscure, the patently personal and the implicitly political. Its charged act of confrontation---running through alternately poignant, hilarious, and outraged tonal registers---is perfectly channeled by the <span style="font-style:italic;">a priori</span> lexical structure and the small, discrete pages of the book. Come on out to hear Tonya read and to support the Katrina Project.John Harkey/Felix Fardohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12811025587674013905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6403627102993925070.post-23794780371855200882010-08-16T08:23:00.000-07:002010-08-16T11:33:24.001-07:00News Flash: Paolo Javier, Poet Laureate of Queens!Even though I'm quite late posting this, I still consider it <span style="font-style:italic;">flashing</span> news. One of Creature Press's very own, author of the BOX chapbook "The Feeling is Actual," has recently received a thrilling commendation and charge. Below is an excerpt from the press release, and check out a link to another article underneath that. Congratulations, 'QPLO'! We know you'll rock this new mantle with verve and swagger and magnanimity.<br />.....................<br /><br />A “ONCE-GLOBAL NOMAD” WHO FINDS “THE WORLD IN QUEENS,”<br />PAOLO JAVIER IS NAMED BOROUGH’S FIFTH POET LAUREATE<br /><br />FLUSHING, N.Y., June 18, 2010 ― Describing himself as “a once-global nomad” who made Queens his permanent home because he has “no trouble finding the world in it,” Paolo S. Javier has been named the fifth Poet Laureate of Queens. His three-year appointment, following a search launched in March, was announced yesterday at Borough Hall by Queens Borough President Helen Marshall and Queens College President James Muyskens.<br /><br />Queens’ newest poet laureate is an award-winning author of two poetry collections and four chapbooks (short books of poetry), as well as a playwright, film director, college professor, editor, and publisher. A native of the Philippines who has traveled widely and lived in Asia, the Middle East, and North America, Javier moved to Katonah, NY, in 1986, and has been a resident of Sunnyside, Queens, for over a decade.<br /><br />“I am delighted to approve my panel of judges’ recommendation of Paolo Javier as the next Poet Laureate of Queens,” said Marshall. “Mr. Javier is an up-and-coming poet as well as a filmmaker who has a clearly articulated vision of how to promote a love of poetry among our diverse youth through multimedia programming. We are very excited to collaborate with him over the next three years.”<br /><br />“Paolo Javier is truly a 21st century poet who is recreating poetry as a dynamic literary art form that draws from theater, new media, sound art, and international cinema,” said Muyskens. “His unique, multidisciplinary approach will surely engage our diverse communities.”<br /><br />Javier is the author of the forthcoming The Feeling Is Actual (Creature Press) and Megton Gasgan Krakoom (Cy Gist Press), as well as LMFAO (OMG Press), Goldfish Kisses (Sona Books), 60 lv bo(e)mbs (O Books), and the time at the end of this writing (Ahadada Books), which received a Small Press Traffic Book of the Year Award in 2005.<br /><a href="http://www.leaderobserver.com/pages/full_story/push?article-Paolo+Javier+is+Queens-+poet-+and+he+knows+it%20&id=8014541&instance=home_news_right"><br />http://www.leaderobserver.com/pages/full_story/push?article-Paolo+Javier+is+Queens-+poet-+and+he+knows+it%20&id=8014541&instance=home_news_right</a>John Harkey/Felix Fardohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12811025587674013905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6403627102993925070.post-84956165666890714092010-04-29T08:58:00.000-07:002010-04-29T09:06:01.247-07:00New Books! (read below for the details)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwEWdprPxIEg6lvVD-QkVlnszId9UY7_49q3nswqLFQgHCbkHoAnZ3_L1o-Vyx5NYuf4bJjFhGqRR09Rft1b-treZSTvV1D69KYioF9U-9xPhy9i0qb2mmxoe3NrgjvT1D8BC4FeR9gKo/s1600/P1000589.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwEWdprPxIEg6lvVD-QkVlnszId9UY7_49q3nswqLFQgHCbkHoAnZ3_L1o-Vyx5NYuf4bJjFhGqRR09Rft1b-treZSTvV1D69KYioF9U-9xPhy9i0qb2mmxoe3NrgjvT1D8BC4FeR9gKo/s320/P1000589.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5465590015755651330" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAyikbEqobatLnnqHaL6gjeCzHsvQrnpSPXTuiyFkjgk-vFxDtxcfsIxoyGTbdS6cYIhN3OVWnL62Xl792nwODhtt4g9T96Ikrv5AK6YrZh4PQl6KfU4auRd9S-pi6WcvrCiTBmUss5rY/s1600/P1000591.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAyikbEqobatLnnqHaL6gjeCzHsvQrnpSPXTuiyFkjgk-vFxDtxcfsIxoyGTbdS6cYIhN3OVWnL62Xl792nwODhtt4g9T96Ikrv5AK6YrZh4PQl6KfU4auRd9S-pi6WcvrCiTBmUss5rY/s320/P1000591.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5465590411433397314" border="0" /></a>John Harkey/Felix Fardohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12811025587674013905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6403627102993925070.post-86579187231537812552010-04-29T07:04:00.000-07:002015-04-21T19:30:20.816-07:00It is my great pleasure to introduce:<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">B O X E S: poetry ready-to-hand.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3 new chapbooks, each consisting of 20 loose pages in a small cardboard box:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">Yuko Otomo, "A Voice That Crawls in the Sky" </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">SOLD OUT!</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">Paolo Javier, "The Feeling is Actual"</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">Tonya Foster, "Bibliography"</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Carry them with you! Mix-and-match the loose leaves! Throw away the ones you don’t like! Save your favorites! Collect all three boxes! Use the pages to jot notes! As tokens to send with letters! To practice origami! To wipe up messes!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>………………………………</b><br /><br />These, we hope, are books that aren’t quite books, that disrupt expectations but in a good-faith manner, that gently dictate a fundamental shift in reading practice, while also inviting/daring more radical, more promiscuous approaches to the object(s): shuffling pages within a box; exchanging pages between different boxes; folding, crumbling, discarding certain pages; using pages for other purposes, practical or capricious.<br /><br />Here are the specs for each BOX-BOOK, the dimensional facts of the vehicle each writer worked with and within:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">20 unbound, unnumbered rectangular pages (4 ¼" x 4 ½").</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fixed margins on all 4 sides, leaving exactly 15 lines-worth of space for 12 pt. Franklin Gothic Medium, the uniformly employed typeface.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Office-pink paper, standard 20 lb.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thin, brown chip-board box housing [4 ¾ square]; an exoskeleton in place of the standard endoskeletal spine that structures most books.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Each work’s title is hand-stamped in black capital letters on the exterior face of the box, and the author’s name is stamped in lowercase below the title.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Each chapbook has been produced in an edition of 50. Some of these will be available directly from the authors, and the rest may be purchased via this website or in select bookstores. Details forthcoming; email Felix for more information. OR, if you want a first-hand look-see and a chance to snag one or more books, consider visiting Creature Press at the CUNY chapbook festival, info right underneath these words!</span>John Harkey/Felix Fardohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12811025587674013905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6403627102993925070.post-53005215026824674212010-04-28T14:51:00.000-07:002010-04-28T15:14:08.402-07:00Creature Press Debut: CUNY Chapbook Festival<h2 style="vertical-align: bottom;"><img src="https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=f95510c231&view=att&th=128410be957ef2db&attid=0.1&disp=emb&zw" alt="chapbook_festival_logo" align="left" height="240" hspace="12" width="120" /><span>ANNUAL CHAPBOOK FESTIVAL</span><span style="font-size:15.5pt;"></span></h2> <p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><strong><span style="font-size:14pt;">Monday May 3 &Tuesday May 4, 2010</span></strong></p> <p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 0in;">The Festival celebrates the chapbook as a work of art and as a medium 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. At the CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue and 34<sup>th</sup> Street, NYC. </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><em>Co-sponsored by The Office of Academic Affairs, The Center for the Humanities, The Graduate Center and MFA Programs in Creative Writing of the</em><span><i> </i></span><em>City University of New York, The Center for Book Arts, Poets House, Poetry Society of America, and Poets & Writers</em> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"> </p> <div style="text-align: center;" align="center"> <hr align="center" size="2" width="100%"> </div> <h2 style="vertical-align: bottom;"><strong><span style="font-size:15.5pt;">Schedule of Events</span></strong><span style="font-size:15.5pt;"></span></h2> <p><img src="https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=f95510c231&view=att&th=128410be957ef2db&attid=0.2&disp=emb&zw" alt="Chapbook Festival" align="left" height="199" hspace="12" width="299" /><b><span style=";font-family:'Times New Roman','serif';font-size:13.5pt;" >Bookfair</span></b></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><strong>11:30am to 7pm</strong><span> </span>both days (May 3-4)</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">in the Proshansky Auditorium Lobby, C Level</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><em>Free and open to the public</em></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:18pt;"> </span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:18pt;"> </span></p> <h1 style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><strong><span style="font-size:18pt;">MONDAY, MAY 3, 2010</span></strong><span style="font-size:18pt;"></span></h1> <h3 style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">Workshops</h3> <h3 style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;">C Level Breakout Rooms</span></h3> <p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><em>Free registration required. To attend workshops, please register by e-mailing <a href="mailto:abozicevic@gc.cuny.edu" target="_blank"><span style="color:#000000;">abozicevic@gc.cuny.edu</span></a> <span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"></span></em></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br /><strong>10 – 11:30am</strong></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><em><b>Producing Chapbooks: A Workshop for Poets</b></em><br /><strong>Brenda Iijima</strong> (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs) and <strong>Rachel Levitsky</strong> (Belladonna*), and <strong>Lonely Christopher</strong> (The Corresponding Society)<br /><br /><strong>10 – 11:30am</strong></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><em><b>Do-It-Yourself Chapbooks: Make and Distribute Your Own</b></em><br /><strong>Mary Gannon</strong> and <strong>Jean Hartig</strong> (<em>Poets & Writers Magazine</em>), <strong>Emily Goodale</strong> (Brave Men Press), <strong>Matvei Yankelevich</strong> (Ugly Duckling Presse), and <b>Adam Robinson</b> (Publishing Genius)<br /><br /><strong>11:30am – 1pm</strong></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><strong><i>Producing Chapbooks: A Workshop for Publishers</i></strong><br /><strong>Jan Heller Levi </strong>(Hunter College), <strong>Rachel Levitsky </strong>(Belladonna*), and <b>Marshall Webber (</b><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">Booklyn)</span></strong><br /><br /><strong>11:30am – 1pm</strong></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><strong><i>Chapbooks as Art Objects</i></strong><br /><strong>Roni Gross</strong> (Roni Gross Design), and <strong>Jeremy Thompson</strong> (The Autotypograph), with <strong>Sarah Nicholls</strong> (Center for Book Arts)</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"> </p> <h3 style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">Chapbook Poets: A Marathon Reading</h3> <p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><strong>2 – 7pm</strong>, C Level Breakout Rooms<br />Poets from participating presses read. Full lineup to be<span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span>announced at <a href="http://www.chapbookfestival.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#000000;">www.chapbookfestival.org</span></a> soon.<br /><em>Free and open to the public.</em></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);font-size:11pt;" > </span></p> <h3 style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">Opening Reception</h3> <p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 0in;"><strong>7 – 8pm</strong>, Proshansky Auditorum Lobby</p> <h1 style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:18pt;">TUESDAY, MAY 4, 2010</span></h1> <h3 style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">Workshops</h3> <p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">C Level Breakout Rooms</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><em>Free registration required. To attend workshops, please register by e-mailing <a href="mailto:abozicevic@gc.cuny.edu" target="_blank"><span style="color:#000000;">abozicevic@gc.cuny.edu</span></a> <span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"></span></em></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br /><strong>10 – 11:30am </strong></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><strong>Producing Chapbooks: A Workshop for Poets</strong><br /><strong>Sommer Browning </strong>and <strong>Tony Mancus</strong> (Flying Guillotine Press), <strong>Jill Magi </strong>(Sona Books), and <strong>Daniel Lin</strong> (Love Among the Ruins)<br /><br /><strong>10 – 11:30am </strong></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><strong>Do-It-Yourself Chapbooks: Make and Distribute Your Own</strong><br /><strong>Mary Gannon</strong> and <strong>Jean Hartig</strong> (<em>Poets & Writers Magazine</em>), <strong>Emily Goodale </strong>(Brave Men Press), and <strong>Anna Moschovakis</strong> (Ugly Duckling Presse)<br /><br /><strong>11:30am – 1pm </strong></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><strong>Producing Chapbooks: A Workshop for Publishers</strong><br /><strong>Jan Heller Levi </strong>(Hunter College), <strong>Andrew Levy </strong>(<em>CRAYON Magazine</em>), <strong>Sueyeun Juliette Lee</strong> (Corollary Press), <strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">and </span></strong><b>Charmaine Wheatley</b> (Booklyn)<br /><br /><strong>11:30am – 1pm </strong></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><strong>Chapbooks as Art Objects</strong><br /><strong>Roni Gross</strong> (Roni Gross Design) and <strong>Jeremy Thompson</strong> (The Autotypograph), with <strong>Sarah Nicholls</strong> (Center for Book Arts)</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"> </p> <h3 style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">Chapbook Poets: A Marathon Reading</h3> <p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><strong>2 – 7pm</strong>, C Level Breakout Rooms<br />Poets from participating presses read. Full lineup to be<span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span>announced at <a href="http://www.chapbookfestival.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#000000;">www.chapbookfestival.org</span></a> soon.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><em>Free and open to the public.</em></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);font-size:11pt;" > </span></p> <h3 style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">PSA Chapbook Fellowship Reading</h3> <p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><strong>7pm</strong>, Martin E. Segal Theatre<br /><strong>Alice Quinn</strong> with judges <strong>Mark Doty</strong>, <strong>Linda Gregg</strong>, and <strong>Arthur Sze</strong>, and winners <strong>Jocelyn Casey-Whiteman</strong>, <strong>Haines Eason</strong>, <strong>Heidi Johannesen Poon</strong>, and <strong>Stephanie Adams-Santos</strong>. Followed by reception.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><em>Free and open to the public.</em></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><strong><i>On Wednesday, May 5, The Center for Book Arts will host printing and bookbinding workshops</i></strong>,<strong><i> from 10-1 and 2-5. To sign up, call 212-481-0295. For more information, <a href="http://www.centerforbookarts.org/news/2010/03/hands-on-self-publishing.shtml" target="_blank"><span style="color:#000000;">visit their website</span></a>.</i></strong></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"> </p> <div style="text-align: center;" align="center"><em><span> <hr align="center" size="2" width="100%"> </span></em></div> <h2 style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><strong>Participating publishers</strong></h2> <p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">2nd Ave Poetry<br />Bateau Press<br />Belladonna*<br />BOOK Works</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">Booklyn<br />BookThug<br />Cervena Barva Press<br />Concrete Wolf Chapbook Press<br />Corollary Press</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">CRAYON<br />Creature Press<br />Cy Gist Press<span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">CUNY Lost & Found<br />DoubleCross Press<br />Dusie Kollektiv<br />Etched Press</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">Factory Hollow Press<br />Finishing Line Press<br />Five Spice Poetry<br />Flying Guillotine Press<br />Forklift, Ohio<br />Greying Ghost Press<span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">H_NGM_N<br />Instance Press<br />Kissena Park Press<br />Little Scratch Pad<br />Love Among the Ruins<br />Magic Helicopter Books</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">Minutes Books<br />Noemi Press<br />Open Thread Publications<br />Pen Press<br />Plan B Press<br />Pleasure Boat Studio: A Literary Press<br />Poets Wear Prada<br />Poinciana Paper Press<br />Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">PresShop<br />Rain Taxi<br />River Poets Journal/Lilly Press<br />Sarabande Books<br />Seven Kitchens Press<br />Slapering Hol Press<br />Small Anchor Press<br />Sona Books<br />Spire Press<br />sunnyoutside<br />Tarpaulin Sky Press<br />The Physiocrats<br />Toadlily Press<br />Ugly Duckling Presse<br />Upset Press<br />X-ing Press/Agriculture Reader<br /><em>and others!</em></p>John Harkey/Felix Fardohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12811025587674013905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6403627102993925070.post-41755409862846178922009-12-17T19:24:00.001-08:002010-02-11T08:37:20.589-08:00BOXES: coming soon (March 2010).A trio of small loose-leaf chapbooks, each containing the work of one writer but all three uniformly embodied and arrayed---see below: brown chipboard box (appx. 4 3/4" square), black text, exactly 20 pink pages. Series One will feature the work of Tonya Foster, Paolo Javier, and Yuko Otomo.<br /><br />(These images are of an ersatz work in mock-up form. 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