Join us on Saturday August 13th from 12 – 4 pm for a poetry pop-up. Featured poets will be in the store, ready and equipped with a typewriter to write poems upon request. Say hi, browse their chapbooks, books and check out the store!
VALLUM CHAPBOOK AWARD 2022 WINNER
We are thrilled to announce the winner of this year’s Chapbook Award!
New Chapbook from George Elliott Clarke | War Canticles
More than a decade after George Elliott Clarke’s first Vallum chapbook, The Gospel of X, we are thrilled to announce the publication of War Canticles in a limited edition of 125 copies. And we’re publishing it in the spring, rather than the fall, because it’s been a long, difficult winter and we deserve some poetry! Visit […]
Heather White | Excerpt from DES MONSTERAS, Winner of the 2021 Vallum Chapbook Award
Excerpt from DES MONSTERAS signal bars | wi-fi | time | headphones | battery <DES MONSTERAS …….share | send To lose someone when they, or you, are still new is to lose whatever was real and also all the possibilities. In my first year my mother was often whisked to hospital. I assume that […]
Paul Muldoon | Excerpt from THE BANNISTERS
Excerpt from The Bannisters MAYDAY 1 The desert would be an ocean were it able to withhold its judgment on wavelet after sand-wavelet and suspend itself over its own floor. 2 It’s not only death’s a Great Leveller. 3 The desert has its own version of spume, its own version of spindrift— that flurry of […]
Nicole Brossard | Excerpt from A TILT IN THE WONDERING
from A Tilt in the Wondering 15 je dois decider du nombre de fois si le mot nuit peut se reproduire seul et immense on vit avec des yeux on vit avec de la nuit mathématique sentiment de vertige je dois me rapprocher au figuré de l’intime 16 la dernière page est pleine de douceur […]
Matthew James Weigel | Excerpt from IT WAS TREATY/IT WAS ME, 1st Place Winner of the 2020 Vallum Chapbook Award
from It Was Treaty/It Was Me PÊHONÂN I will ask the interpreter to read to you what has been written, and before I go away I will have a copy made to leave with the principal Chiefs. —Alexander Morris, Commissioner, Treaty No. 6 did you know where the river would take you when you first […]