Friday April 24

6 pm: Independent Press Fair Opening Reception, part of Amherst's 250th anniversary celebration, co-sponsored by the Fine Arts Center
8 pm: Anne Halley Memorial Reading by Marilyn Hacker with Amy Leach

Saturday April 25

12:30 pm: Fair Re-opens
1 pm: Address by Eric Lorberer, Founding Editor, Rain Taxi Review of Books
1:30 pm: Editors Roundtable moderated by Eric Lorberer with: Lucy Corin, FC2;
Christian Hawkey,  jubilat; David Lenson, Massachusetts Review; Ethan Paquin, Slope; Ellen Doré Watson, Massachusetts Review & Alice James Books
3:00 pm: Reading by Christian Hawkey, Thomas Glave & Deck of Cards poetry performance staged by Missoula Oblongata
8 pm: Reading: Yusef Komunyakaa, Lucy Corin & lê thi diem thúy

Exhibitions

•  University Gallery: 50 years of MR covers, with a selection of original art works that ran on the covers, including work by Jerome Liebling, Leonard Baskin, Richard Yarde and Laylah Ali. Opening reception Wednesday April 22, 5-7pm.

•  W.E.B. Du Bois Library: historic letters, broadsides and other ephemera from the MR archives.

Participating Journals & Presses
Adastra Press, Agni, American Poetry Review, Amherst Books, Bateau Press, Boston Review, Calque, Clockroot Books, Conjunctions, Drive-By Poets, Factory Hollow Press, Fence/ Fence Books, Fou, Glitterpony, Grommet Press, Hobart, Impress Inc., Invisible Ear, Iowa Review, Jellyfish , jubilat, Kelly House/PennSound, Laminated Cats Quarterly Journal & Chapbook Series, Massachusetts Review, Microfilme Magazine, New England Review, New Sins Press, Noo Journal, Nor by Press, notnostrums, NowCulture Magazine, Paris Press, Perugia Press, Pilot Poetry /Pilot Books, Pocket Myths, Rain Taxi Review of Books, Raritan, Sienese Shredder, Slope/ Slope Editions, Small Beer Press, Swamp Press, Tin House, Tupelo Press, Ugly Duckling Presse, UMass Press, Wave Books, Worcester Review.  

All events take place in the Fine Arts Center Lobby and University Gallery.

Free and open to the public.

juniper@hfa.umass.edu

A program of the University of Massachusetts Amherst MFA Program for Poets and Writers' Juniper Initiative. Cosponsored by the Massachusetts Review, Fine Arts Center, University Gallery, Massachusetts Cultural Council, Impress Inc., Amherst Books, and The Valley Advocate. Made possible by the generous support of the University of Massachusetts Amherst Departments of English; Languages, Literatures, and Cultures; and Comparative Literature ; College of Humanities & Fine Arts; Vice Provost of Research; Arts Council; and Alumni Association.