Beginning in the 16th century, the chapbook has proved adaptable to a wide range of material, from political tracts to penny songs and poems. These inexpensive booklets were originally distributed to a diverse audience by "chapmen" who sold them at bars or on street corners with their other wares.

Today there is still an active community of chapbook publishers, and chapbooks can be found in all shapes and sizes, stapled together, silk-screened, or sewn, often in limited editions for collectors and enthusiasts of the medium.

The Poetry Society of America continues this tradition with its chapbook series presenting the work of new poets who have not yet published a full-length volume of poetry.

PSA CHAPBOOK FELLOWSHIPS

Each year four renowned poets select and introduce a winning manuscript for publication.

Each winner receives $1000.

Recent Winners

2010

Congratulations to the 2010 winners.

New York City Fellowships:

Black Anecdote by Andrew Seguin
   selected by Rosanna Warren

Slow Dance with Trip Wire by Camille Rankine
   selected by Cornelius Eady

National Fellowships:

Badger, Apocrypha by Adam Day
   selected by James Tate

Fragments of Loss by Hossannah Asuncion
   selected by Kimiko Hahn