Chapbooks and Broadsides, Explained

Our call for submissions, for the You Shoulda Been There subscription series, has sent a flurry of questions to our inbox here at The Reading Room CLE. Here are the answers, in a handy explainer for you! What is a chapbook? What is a broadside? Back in the days when...

You Shoulda Been There

Some nights are magic. The show is spot-on; the audience sings along; the crowd catches the poet's energy and gives it back a hundredfold. Afterward we spill onto the street, still buzzing: “Did you hear that? Did you see–“But if you're not there,...