Duluth Chapbooks: Poetry, Fiction, Comics, etc.

Paul Lundgren Apr 27, 2020 1 Comment

From laureates to total hacks, writers and other artists have compiled their works into inexpensive little booklets for hundreds of years. The history of street literature in Duluth has perhaps not yet been explored in depth.

Gathered in this post is by no means a comprehensive collection of chapbooks produced in Duluth, but rather just a smattering of publications that happened to be gathering dust in the Perfect Duluth Day library.

Got one to add? Mention it in the comments and/or email the cover art if you have it to: paul @ perfectduluthday.com.

Of course, it’s not always obvious what the difference is between a chapbook and a book-book, but the general characteristics of a chapbook are that it is a thin volume of photocopied pages folded over and stapled together. Most of the time a publishing company isn’t involved; the artist simply crafts together a small number of copies, usually in the tens or low hundreds. Occasionally a small publisher will kick out a limited run of a thin volume and call it a chapbook, and sometimes the product will be fancier than pages photocopied at the author’s day job while no one was looking, but usually cheap and easy is the rule.