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The mission of CHAX is to increase the impact of new writing in our culture.

For more than thirty years, CHAX has published close to 200 books by innovative poets. Our letterpress books emerge from intense collaboration between poet and book artist. They show new ways in the art of the book.

CHAX also curates readings and other events. Our special publishing projects include one-off and limited-edition broadsides.

CHAX was founded in 1984. We’ve always worked to enlarge and enliven the global community of readers and writers. If you believe in this mission, you may wish to consider giving us your support.

Steve McCaffery has been twice nominated for the Governor General’s Award and is the author of more than 40 books of poetry and criticism. A selection of his explorations in numerous forms can be savored in the two volumes of Seven Pages Missing (Coach House Press 2001-02) as well as Panopticon (Book Thug, 1984) and The Darkness of the Present: Poetics, anachronism and the anomaly (University of Alabama Press, 2012). His book-object-concept A Little Manual of Treason was commissioned for the 2011 Shajah Biennale in the United Arab Emirates. His most recent books are Tatterdemalion (Veer Books, 2014); Alice in Plunderland (Book Thug, 2015), and Revanches, a collection of visual and concrete poetry (Xexoxial, 2015). English born and a long-time resident of Toronto, he was a co-founder of the Toronto Research Group (TRG), the sound poetry ensemble Four Horsemen, and the College of Canadian “Pataphysics.” Since 2004 he has been the David Gray Professor of Poetry and Letters at the University at Buffalo.

James Sherry is the author of 12 books of poetry and prose, most recently Oops! Environmental Poetics. The book being celebrated, Entangled Bank, continues his interest in climate and culture. He is the publisher of Roof Books and started the Segue Foundation, a multi-arts producer, in 1977 in New York City.