Beginning in the 16th century, the chapbook has proved adaptable to a wide range of material, from political tracts to penny songs and poems. These inexpensive booklets were originally distributed to a diverse audience by "chapmen" who sold them at bars or on street corners with their other wares.
Today there is still an active community of chapbook publishers, and chapbooks can be found in all shapes and sizes, stapled together, silk-screened, or sewn, often in limited editions for collectors and enthusiasts of the medium. The Poetry Society of America continues this tradition with its chapbook series presenting the work of new poets who have not yet published a full-length volume of poetry.
PSA CHAPBOOK FELLOWSHIPS
Each year, four renowned poets select and introduce a winning manuscript for publication. Each winner receives $1000.
For 2010, Hossanah Asuncion, a Filipina poet, was selected as one of the national fellows for her manuscript Fragment of Loss. Asuncion is a Kundiman fellow and received an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. Her poems have previously appeared in Calyx, Inc., Foursquare Journal, Ghoti Magazine and Storyscape Journal. She lives in Brooklyn (via Los Angeles via Manila).
More information here.
Today there is still an active community of chapbook publishers, and chapbooks can be found in all shapes and sizes, stapled together, silk-screened, or sewn, often in limited editions for collectors and enthusiasts of the medium. The Poetry Society of America continues this tradition with its chapbook series presenting the work of new poets who have not yet published a full-length volume of poetry.
PSA CHAPBOOK FELLOWSHIPS
Each year, four renowned poets select and introduce a winning manuscript for publication. Each winner receives $1000.
For 2010, Hossanah Asuncion, a Filipina poet, was selected as one of the national fellows for her manuscript Fragment of Loss. Asuncion is a Kundiman fellow and received an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. Her poems have previously appeared in Calyx, Inc., Foursquare Journal, Ghoti Magazine and Storyscape Journal. She lives in Brooklyn (via Los Angeles via Manila).
More information here.
