About the Chapbook as an Art Form

Though we are a small press with fairly limited resources, we are devoted to producing striking and elegant (when appropriate to the subject matter) chapbooks, and we keep them in print. We feel that we run one of the classier chapbook operations around. (The Wick Poetry Program through Kent State University runs a series of chapbooks that we envy.)

Typically, a chapbook consists of between 18-36 pages of poetry (or fiction, or whatever). The chapbook is an old and intimate form. The material available in a chapbook is usually digestible in one sitting, is a smaller constellation of art.

Many of our writers go on to include many of the poems from their chapbooks in future book-length projects.

Our chapbooks are offset-printed (rather than letterpressed; some fine presses print letterpress chapbooks, which end up being significantly more expensive—though lovely!—and require a different approach to the chapbook as a form). We do one-color covers on elegant cardstock. The design is an important element to us, and we work with our authors on cover art and design.