I like this option. I plan to get myself festooned with lots of books, chapbooks, maybe a broadside. Juniper festival is lit nerdery with a wine glass and a ping pong tournament. Like summer camp.
You might see me at the Small Beer Press table for awhile. Or dancing around to the Cinnamon Urns. Or just dancing around, staggering under a pile of books.
Here's the schedule:
Friday April 23
3:30 pm Eric Carle Museum: Antonio Frasconi Exhibit Tour: curator tours of the internationally acclaimed artist's woodcuts, including works inspired by Pablo Neruda and W.S. Merwin
4:30 pm: Eric Carle Museum: Roundtable: On Poetry & The Visual Arts: Jen Bervin, Terrance Hayes, & Matthea Harvey, moderated by Jane Curley
6 pm: Fine Arts Center Lobby: Independent Journal & Book Fair Opening Reception
7:30 pm: University Gallery: Reading & Performance: Jen Bervin, Christian Hawkey, & Michael Teig, followed by the premier of a performance based on Christopher Smart's “Jubilate Agno,” staged by Missoula Oblongata
Saturday April 24
10:30 am: Fine Arts Center Lobby: Journal & Book Fair Continues
11 am: University Gallery: Roundtable: Poetry, Publishing, & the Pioneer Valley : the dreaming up, creating, & evolving of jubilat, Verse Press/Wave Books & Rain Taxi with Rob N. Casper, Matthew Zapruder, & Eric Lorberer, moderated by Dara Wier
12:30 pm: University Gallery: Roundtable: The Future of Poetry, Part II with Heather Christle, Cathy Park Hong, Evie Shockley, & Rebecca Wolff, moderated by Rob N. Casper
3 pm: Amherst Cinema Arts Center: Reading: Terrance Hayes, Caroline Knox, Dean Young, & Matthew Zapruder
Journal and Book Fair Participants Include
A Public Space, Action, Amherst Books, Adventures in Poetry, Aufgabe, Bateau, Black Ocean, Boston Review, The Canary, Canarium, Clockroot, Conjunctions, Factory Hollow Press, Forklift, Ohio, H_NGM_N, Hobart, Jellyfish, jubilat, Kelly Writers' House, Kenyon Review, Magic Helicopter, Massachusetts Review, Microfilme, Noo, Nor by Press, notnostrums, Now Culture, Open City, Paris Press, PennSound, Pilot Press, Pocket Myths, Poetry Northwest, Poetry Society of America, Publishing Genius, Rain Taxi, Schoen Books, Slope Editions, Small Beer Press, Thermos, Ugly Duckling Presse, Walser Society, Wave Books, Zephyr Press
Sounds like fun. My town's little literary festival is in March -- which makes sense climate-wise, I guess. If I were free I would coast all around to all the neato literary festivals happening all over the place. They're like grown-up book fairs.
ReplyDeletewhy am i so terrible about remembering about this thing until just after it happens
ReplyDeleteSophia--Yay, it's true, they are so much fun. I got to meet so many awesome people this year!
ReplyDeleteMichael--Oh noes! Maybe next year? You could bring homebrew to the Small Beer table and add to the festivities!