The Seventh Annual NYC/CUNY Chapbook Festival: March 31-April 2

It's that time of year again! Best book event of the year! Year ye year ye! The Seventh Annual NYC/CUNY Chapbook Festival is happening from Tuesday, March 31 through Thursday, April 2. If you are in New York and like yourself some small presses, you are in luck. "THE NYC/CUNY CHAPBOOK FESTIVAL CELEBRATES THE CHAPBOOK AS A WORK OF ART AND A MEDIUM FOR ALTERNATIVE AND EMERGING WRITERS AND PUBLISHERS."

Speaking of publishers, you'll find all of the following represented at the Book Fair (Thursday, April 2, from 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. on the C-Level at the CUNY Graduate Center, 365 5th Ave):

Argos Books, Art Resource Transfer, Belladonna* Collaborative, Black Lawrence Press, Bloof Books, Brooklyn Arts Press, Center For Book Arts, Deadly Chaps Press, DoubleCross Press, Fact-Simile, Fields Press, Flying Object/Factory Hollow Press, Folded Word Press, Future Tense, Greying Ghost Press, Harlequin Creature, Hidden Clearing Books, Ink Press Productions!, Kayrock Screenprinting, Keep This Bag Away From Children, Lack of Press, Lambey Press, Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative, Monk Books, New Directions, No, Dear, On Lives, Organism for Poetic Research, Packet BiWeekly, Poets Wear Prada, Projective Industries, Purgatory Pie Press, Raven Press, Slapering Hol Press, Slow Youth, Sunnyoutside, The Catenary Press, The Operating System, The Physiocrats, The Song Cave, Thistlemilk Press, aaaaaaaaaaaaaand Ugly Duckling Presse.

And the full program is here. We're particularly excited about the "PSA Chapbook Fellowship Award Ceremony" and "Five Years of Lost & Found: New American Poetry & Beyond" on Wednesday, April 1, with the likes of Anne Waldman and Thurston Moore.

Please note as well the following free workshops: "Nuts, Bolts, & Beyond: How to Get Your Work into Print," "The Chapbook Across Genres,” “Lunch Poems with New York City Poets”, “Raven Press Redux: Chapbook Publishing as a Pedagogical Tool,” and “The Margins are the Center: CUNY Students Publishing with Chapbook Presses.”

And you can join and share on Facebook. See you at CUNY!