Starting a Chapbook Press: A presentation by Peter Vanderberg of Ghostbird Press.

After attending an early N.Y. Chapbook Festival, poet, teacher and CUNY alum Peter Vanderberg founded Ghostbird Press and began publishing three titles a year. Two years ago, he added the Birdhouse Chapbook Award for emerging writers.

A Reading: Featuring Birdhouse Chapbook 2020 awardees, Ashley Somwaru and Julia Tolo 

Keynote: A reading by Alicia Ostriker a reading and a presentation of her hybrid-chapbook.

Poet, critic, and activist Alicia Ostriker is the author of over a dozen collections and is a much loved N.Y. State Poet Laureate. Her chapbook “Ideas of Order & Disorder,” a collection of poetry and photographs, was published expressly for the Festival: “Here, Ostriker disorders accepted ideas and offers a truth that is uncomfortable, challenging, and necessary in this moment. Her words at times expose wounds and injustice, but also offer the healing power of art and love.”

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More information about the CUNY Chapbook Festival can be found at: http://chapfest.qwriting.qc.cuny.edu/