Chapbooks…store them in the freezer along with your passport, cash, and family photos

An exhaustive report on the Chapbook Festival on Bookslut with many lovely interviews with and photos of publishers & roving poets!

Suddenly I see Christian Hawkey, author of Ventrakl (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010). I ask if he’ll comment on the chapbook’s place in our contemporary world. “Chapbooks,” Christian muses. “They’re small, they’re portable. You can read them anywhere. And you should store them in the freezer along with your passport, cash, and family photos.”