Toadlily Press is committed to the chapbook. We pay particular attention to our cover and book design. Toadlily publications are as artful and imaginative as the words within them. What is a chapbook? The original chapbooks were small, cheap books or pamphlets containing poems, ballads, stories, or religious tracts and were hawked by itinerant chapmen. Today, the chapbook form is a vehicle to display a small but substantial collection of poems ample enough to give a sense of a poet's range, concentrated enough for maximum effect. Every book in The Quartet Series presents four poets—emerging, rediscovered, or celebrated—each represented by a chapbook, in one handsome, perfect-bound volume. Readers will appreciate the distinctive voices of the individual poets and, as they read chapbook to chapbook, will begin to hear the resonance between them as well. The chapbook size of each poet's section will allow that writer to pursue other venues for a book-length manuscript. And their readers benefit too—four collections for the price of one book. In the practice necessarily employed by many universities and small presses, only one poet out of hundreds of entries "wins" and is published. Toadlily's editors are committed to the concept of offering poets an additional, alternative route to publication. As Ilya Kaminsky comments in his introduction to The Fifth Voice : “It is a brilliant idea to put together a festival of four different lyric voices.” Good poetry exists when "the poets among us can be 'literalists of the imagination' —above insolence and triviality and can present for inspection, imaginary gardens with real toads in them." — Marianne Moore Toadlily Press' editors, Myrna Goodman, Meredith Trede and Jennifer Wallace, are all well-recognized poets, from public radio to the Paris Review. In addition to chapbooks, they've edited literary journals, arts publications, book jackets and ad copy. For over a decade they have worked together—a rare and auspicious history for any publishing venture. Their collaborative instincts and eclectic tastes promise a lively selection of voices and styles for the Quartet Series. See the Submissions page for details.
Toadlily Press editors: MEET THE EDITORS Myrna Goodman's first poem, "To Be A Boy," was rejected by Seventeen Magazine when she was 11. Despite rejection, the young feminist pursued playing with the mystery of words— to have a say. As an award winning ceramic artist, she wrote her words in clay. As a teacher, she helped disabled and gifted children, old people and shy immigrants have their say —using the language of words or sculpture. Her poems have been published in many literary journals and anthologies. She frequently writes in her Westchester County garden where she also paints dead trees. Read Myrna Goodman's poetry. Meredith Trede lives in Sleepy Hollow, NY where she and her husband are partners in a management consulting business. She's had over sixty poems published in journals including The Paris Review, The Nebraska Review, West Branch, Diner and The MacGuffin . Meredith has had residencies from the Saltonstall Foundation, Ragdale, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in Virginia and France, a grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts and holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College . Read Meredith Trede's poetry. Jennifer Wallace teaches at the Maryland Institute, College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore , MD. She is a poetry editor at The Cortland Review and is co-editor of the chapbook, Voices from Behind Bars . Her collaborations include the exhibition, Subject to Change , with sculptor Linda Bills and Psalms of Water and Stone , with poet, Heidi Hart and composer, Richard Smith. In 2004, she exhibited the installation, "A Nostalgic Object of Desire/Metaphysic" at MICA's Decker Gallery. Her poems and prose have been published in numerous literary journals. Read Jennifer Wallace's poetry. Traci Brimhall, marketing assistant, currently resides in New York City. Her work has been a finalist in the Rita Dove Poetry Award and the Black Warrior Review Poetry Contest. Some of her poems have appeared in Harpur Palate, Kalliope, and Poet Lore. Elizabeth Cornell, web manager, is a PhD candidate at Fordham University in the Bronx. She is also fiction editor at The Cortland Review. Katherine Hyde, marketing consultant, lives in Ridgewood, NJ and is a freelance writer, editor and marketing consultant. Her work for the corporate and policy programs at Japan Society of New York appears online at www.japansociety.org . Katherine holds a JD from New York University and practiced corporate law in New York and New Jersey for a number of years. She is web editor for her college class at Yale, where she received a BA degree. You can reach her at editor@toadlilypress.com . Greg Nicholl, web manager, is a freelance proofreader and graphic designer. His poetry has recently appeared in Barrow Street , Arts & Letters , Natural Bridge , Smartish Pace , Crab Creek Review , and elsewhere. He lives in Baltimore and is the web manager for The Cortland Review. Toadlily Press is under the fiscal sponsorship of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. Contributions made on behalf of Toadlily Press may be made payable to Fractured Atlas and sent to Toadlily Press at PO Box 2, Chappaqua, NY 10514. Contributions are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law. You can reach the editors at: |
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