Gary Metras, the Poet Laureate of Easthampton, Massachusetts in 2018, has published 118 chapbooks, broadsides, and full length books since the founding of Adastra Press in 1979. Adastra Press, the oldest independent poetry publisher in the Pioneer Valley, is a one-person printing and publishing operation, specializing in limited editions of poetry, mostly in chapbook size, letterpress printed using hand set type, with a paper cover that has a flat spine glued to the hand