F235B.
Bound, Stitched, & Pressed: On Chapbooks & Community
Friday, March 25, 2022
3:20 pm to 4:35 pm
Why publish a chapbook? Is a chapbook just a short book? What makes a community of poems a successful chapbook? Ephemera, folk tale, town gossip, political tract: the little book pressed into the hands of everyday people has historically connected tale and song with community. This panel focuses on why poets write chapbooks today. Panelists will share our own chapbook stories to reveal how your poems can sing in this morsel of a form, reach readers, and gleam in the gamut of subjects and themes.
Participants
Tyler Mills is the author of the poetry books Hawk Parable and Tongue Lyre, the chapbook City Scattered and collaborative chapbook Low Budget Movie and is finishing a memoir, The Bomb Cloud. She teaches for the Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College and edits the Account.
Philip Metres is the author and translator of a number of books, including Shrapnel Maps, The Sound of Listening, Sand Opera, Pictures at an Exhibition, and To See the Earth. His work has garnered Guggenheim and Lannan fellowships, two NEAs, three Arab American book awards, and the Hunt Prize.
Hadara Bar-Nadav is the author of several poetry collections, most recently The New Nudity, Lullaby (with Exit Sign), The Frame Called Ruin, and Fountain and Furnace. She is also coauthor of Writing Poems, 8th ed. Bar-Nadav is a professor of English at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
Kwame Dawes is author of eighteen collections of poetry, two novels, several anthologies, and plays. He has won a Pushcart Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and an Emmy. He is a Chancellor's Professor of English at the University of Nebraska and Glenna Luschei Editor of Prairie Schooner.
Brian Teare is the author of six critically acclaimed books of poetry, most recently The Empty Form Goes All the Way to Heaven and Doomstead Days. An associate professor at the University of Virginia, he makes books by hand for his micropress, Albion Books.
