Southern New England Antiquarian Booksellers, Northampton Center for the Arts, and Yiddish Book Center are our community sponsors . New England Public Media and the NEPM Book Club are our media sponsors . We wholeheartedly thank you for your continuing support and assistance in promoting the ninth edition of the book fair in November. 2025. For more information on our sponsors.

Looking for a space for readers dedicated to community and sustainability? leaves is just the place, with two locations in Brooklyn, New York. Their Greenpoint store is open daily, and their second location in Bushwick is appointment only - they’ve got some rare finds. They collect and sell a wide variety of books, spanning many genres from radical literature to artist books, but have a focus on books by female and LGBTQ+ authors. Zines, magazines, posters, broadsides and oth

Forbes Library, the public library for Northampton is a beneficiary of the Northampton Book Fair, receiving a portion of the proceeds from admission ticket sales. Forbes Library provides a wide range of information, materials and services to all of the people of Northampton and Massachusetts.  The library’s building offers a friendly, welcoming physical environment which encourages the civic, intellectual, and cultural pursuits of the public. Forbes serves as a community mee

Photo of Eliot Cardinaux by poet Denver Butson Amidst the general feelings of uneasiness and chaos emerging from the 2016 election, Eliot Cardinaux founded The Bodily Press. As the founding editor, book designer, fundraiser, and empressario, he seems to work around the clock to serve up poetry and music to audiences here and around the world. In the past 18 months alone, the press has released 30 books by 20 authors, many first-time book-length manuscripts and chapbooks, w

Elizabeth Kelly-Griswold, the owner of Blue Mango Books, of New Hope, PA, sells early American journals, diaries, account books, & bibles.

Go On Bewilderment. Adam Grabowski Attack Bear Press (2020) Adam Grabowski, aka the typewriter poet, will be banging out poems on a manual typewriter, handing them back to the curious passerby, at the Poetry on Demand table at the Northampton Book Fair. Rather than asking for a topic for a poem, Grabowski writes based a single word prompt: anything from serendipity to sailboat, androgyny to cataplexy. He takes about 15 minutes to compose the poem. "It is a collabor

Twenty writers from the region - authors of novels, poetry, children’s books, memoirs, and non-fiction - will be signing their books at the Northampton Antiquarian Book, Ephemera, and Book Arts Fair on Friday, November 21 st , 5 – 8pm and Saturday, November 22 nd . 10am – 4pm at the Straw Dog Writers Guild booth in the main lobby of the Northampton Center for the Arts, 33 Hawley Street.  Attendees at the fair can easily meet and talk with local authors, buy books for themselv

Adrie Rose, a poet herself, is the editor of Nine Syllables Press, which was started in 2022 at the Boutelle-Day Poetry Center at Smith College. Named after the first line of “Metaphors” by Sylvia Plath, Rose wanted to honor the Smith College alum and the press is focused primarily on promoting poetry by women. She receives help from Smith students in two classes every year in selecting submissions and designing the book covers. Rose will be showcasing the first three poetry

Ten Pound Island specializes in maritime history, yachting, whaling, U.S. coastal history, New England, lighthouses, logs, & navigation.

Founded in 1997, Perugia Press is a nonprofit feminist press that publishes one book each year: the winner of the Perugia Press Prize, their annual national contest for first or second books of poetry by women. This is the first year the literary press will be exhibiting and selling their books at the Northampton Book Fair Apostasies by Holli Carrell (Perugia Press.2025) Their mission is to celebrate and support women poets, inclusive of gender-expansive identities, in print