Cynthia Miller’s Art

Cynthia Miller, in Tucson, Arizona, is a frequent collaborator with Chax, most often allowing us to use her images or parts of images on book covers, occasionally participating in fine letterpress book arts projects, and acting as our Visual Arts Director. Educated at...

Join us at Chax!

nGive to ChaxnJoin our CommunitynnnIn our 37 years Chax has practiced the creation of community. Our community includes our directors and founders, our board members, interns, volunteers, authors, and supporters, as well as international partners in book making,...

chax AND black mountain (1)

Chax was not a dream in a mind when I met, after a few years of reading their work, Robert Duncan, Robert Creeley, and Ed Dorn, at a conference in Iowa City on Charles Olson. I was at the time in grad school at the Univ of Wisconsin, in Madison, and I was TA-ing for...

What Books These Are Ink Only Knows

We have so MANY books in progress at Chax! New books which will be out in the next couple of months from Kyle Schlesinger and Andrew Levy. Not long after that from Adam Cornford. Soon, as well, a Selected Poems from Norman Fischer, also Selected Poems of Rachel Blau...

One by One the Video Garden Grows

We only began a few months ago in our effort to put poetry readings, talks, and other such events online, in this time of COVID-19, in the absence of public readings in cafes and bars and galleries and other art spaces. Now Chax has 46 items on our YouTube channel....