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A member-run collective that has spent more than two decades building chapbooks one at a time. In an age of everything digital, Slate Roof Press does things the slow way. Founded in 2004, the independent, not-for-profit poetry publishing collective in Greenfield, Massachusetts, produces hand-bound, limited-edition chapbooks that are as much works of art as they are books of poems. From the beginning, the press has been dedicated to publishing Massachusetts, regional, and nati

Emily Baker, owner of Willis Monie Books. Photo Credit: Bill Newcott Emily Baker, the owner of Willis Monie Books in Cooperstown, New York, estimates that she has about 500,000 items in the bookstore. 127,000 of those are catalogued and available to purchase online. These numbers do not even account for duplicates, of which the store has many. “We have at least one employee whose sole job, 32 hours a week, is to enter books into the catalogue,” Baker told me. The sheer number

Michael Koppa is the owner and founder of Heavy Duty Press. When Michael Koppa started Heavy Duty Press in Milwaukee in the 90s, he knew that he intended for it to be a creative outlet, and not a press-for-hire. “There's nothing you can buy that is as fulfilling as what you can create,” he said. “Like, if you were a painter, painting would be your medium of creative expression. I’m a printer who wants to print the things that I want to print. It’s the same thing.” Heavy Duty