Small Press Fair & Table Events

This year’s small press fair will be back on the Essex Street pedestrian mall outside the Peabody Essex Museum. Featuring small presses and organizations from across Massachusetts and beyond!

Broadside Giveaway and Anthology Signing
Time: 11:00AM – 12:00PM
Press: Broadsided Press
Feature Author & Book: Elizabeth Bradfield, “Broadsided Press: Fifteen Years of Poetic/Artistic Collaboration, 2005 – 2020”
Description: Broadsided Press has been publishing monthly, original collaborations since 2005. Join founder Elizabeth Bradfield, take a broadside, and take home a signed copy of the anthology that gathers 50 broadsides, conversations about art and writing, and photos of words and art on streets around the world.

Flash Submissions
Time: 11:00AM – 4:00PM
Press: Molecule; a tiny lit mag
Description: Visit us to submit your best micro works (50 words max, including title) for inclusion in a special Mass Poetry section in our next issue.

Magnetic Poetry Wall
Time: 11:00AM – 4:00PM
Press: This Works Press
Description: Create your own poems at our community magnetic poetry wall!

Book Signing: No Time for Death by Harris Gardner
Time: 11:30AM – 12:00PM
Press: Cervena Barva Press
Description: “No Time for Death” offers an overarching theme: Take a breath, a revitalizing pause; as for Mortality, slow down; enjoy the most of each day-to-day. What’s the rush? Death can wait, can’t it?

Solstice MFA Alum, Staff & Faculty Book Signing
Time: 11:30AM – 12:00PM
Table: Solstice MFA Program
Featured Authors & Books: Kathleen Aguero (World Happiness Index), Rebecca Connors (Split Map), Quintin Collins (Claim Tickets for Stolen People), Meg Kearney (All Morning the Crows)
Brief description: Meet New England-based alums, staff, and faculty from the Solstice MFA in Creative Writing Program; buy signed copies of their poetry collections; and learn more about this hybrid graduate program!

Book Signing, Check Points by Michael Casey
Time: 12:00PM – 1:00PM
Press: Adastra Press
Description: Michael Casey, a native of Lowell, MA, is the author of ten poetry collections, including Obscenities, the 1972 Yale Younger Poets winner. Check Points continues his experiences during the Vietnam War. “This remarkable book of poems”–Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene. www.facebook.com/michael.casey

Book Signing: Gregory Wolos, The Thing About Men
Time: 1:00PM – 1:30PM
Press: Cervena Barva Press
Description: There are kindnesses and cruelties in these stories; there are successes and failures. But pull back the curtain on the central characters in The Thing About Men, and you will find that they are all men you know.

Book Signing: Michael C. Keith, Quiet Geography
Time: 1:30PM – 2:00PM
Press Name: Cervena Barva Press
Description: Often disquieting in theme and plot, the pieces within these covers invariably contain meaningful truths and lessons while managing to accomplish this in a witty and affecting manner.

Book signing, Before We Were Birds by Susan Edwards Richmond
Time: 2:00PM – 3:00PM
Press: Adastra Press
Description: Susan Edwards Richmond is the author of four poetry chapbooks and four children’s books. Before We Were Birds is her first full-length poetry book, of which poet Fred Marchant said, “With stunning imagery and gentle, meditative music, Richmond conjures a sense of sacred wildness in all things.” www.susanedrichmond.com

Book Signing: Vassiliki Rapti, Bathed in Moonlight/Translation Translated from the Greek by Peter Bottéas
Time: 2:00PM – 2:30PM
Press: Cervena Barva Press
Description: Vassiliki Rapti´s poems are like delicate watercolors painted with a fine brush, in hues of the seasons, the sea, and the night illumined by the moon. They’re diaphanous hues that give glimmers of an inner world: warm, deep, subterranean pools of feeling, reflecting yearning that might not otherwise see the light.

Book Signing, Elizabeth Lund, Un-Silenced
Time: 2:30PM – 3:00PM
Press: Cervena Barva Press
Description: These poems show the devastating effects of domestic violence and seek to restore one victim’s voice, allowing her to speak to and through another generation of women.

Book Signing, Elizabeth Sylvia, None But Witches: Poems on Shakespeare’s Women
Time: 3:00PM – 3:45PM
Press: Three Mile Harbor Press
Description: Elizabeth Sylvia’s None But Witches won the Three Mile Harbor Poetry Prize in 2022. At the Festival, she will be participating in the panel Witches All the Way Down on May 6 at 10:15 and will be at the TMHP booth to continue the discussion and to sign copies of her prize-winning collection.