The New York Public Library partners with us to collect chapbooks, small-print periodicals, avant-garde zines, and hand-bound books from readings, book fairs, and shops worldwide. These are often handmade or printed in extremely limited runs and document the small-press activity of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
This display showcases items in The New York Public Library’s Ugly Duckling Presse Chapbook and Zine Collection that were collected outside of New York. The texts come in a variety of eye-catching formats, from matchbook scrolls to accordion-style pamphlets, and were authored by poets at different stages of their careers, from well-established writers to up-and-comers.
NYPL has partnered with Ugly Duckling Presse for over five years, and our Chapbook and Zine Collection in their care now spans more than 1000 items.
The display includes items from the Press at Colorado College, Small Fires Press (NOLA), Tarpaulin Sky (Grafton, VT), Minutes Press (MA), Nor By Press (Northampton, MA), Poetry Salon (Pittsburgh, PA), Burning Deck (Providence, RI), Alien Corn Books (Australia), Effing Press (Austin TX) and more!
Open now. Ends January 12th, 2020.Stephen A. Schwarzman Building. More info here.