PAST PROJECTS & ARCHIVES
Collective Chapbook Series
In 2017, 2018, & 2019, we sent chapbooks to friends & family as a thank-you gift to those who had hosted writers from The Field Office. The covers of the chapbooks were printed at Hound Dog Press in Louisville, KY and sewn at The Field Office. We have a limited number of the collective chapbooks still for sale, & the links to purchase are below. Each chapbook contains fifteen poems, one by each of The Field Office collective as it stood until 2021 (learn more about our history here).
More information about each chapbook is below.
CARTOGRAPHY
Date of release: Fall 2019
24 pages // 7 x 8.5"
Cover letterpressed by Hound Dog Press
Handsewn at The Field Office
Edition of 291
⇒ Order cartography {$10 each + $3 shipping}
Ground/work
Date of release: Fall 2018
24 pages // 7 x 8.5"
Cover letterpressed by Hound Dog Press
Handsewn at The Field Office
Edition of 285
⇒ Order ground/work {$10 each + $3 shipping}
UN/SANCTIMONIOUS
Date of release: Fall 2017
24 pages // 7 x 8.5"
Cover letterpressed by Hound Dog Press
Handsewn at The Field Office
Edition of 280
⇒ Order un/sanctimonious {$10 each + $3 shipping}
Datebooks
In the late summers of 2014, 2015, & 2016, we distributed a thank-you package to those who had hosted Field Office Poets and those we hoped to work alongside in the future. For the first three years of The Field Office, we screen-printed & embossed hundreds of Datebooks, monthly desk calendars. The Datebook covers are below. This thank-you mailing was replaced by the collective chapbook mailing in the summer of 2017.
2014 Datebook, for the 2014-2015 Academic Year
2015 Datebook, for the 2015-2016 Academic Year
2016 Datebook, for the 2016-2017 Academic Year
The Postcard Prize
The postcard prize was one of our small contributions to the slow communication movement – it was one of our collaborations – our way of putting our hands out together to welcome you to our community. We ran the prize for three years. Below you will find more information about the history of the project, links to digital exhibits, and more.
Each year, we asked a Poet to conceive of something, a question, that would ring true to our community and serve as a writing prompt. We then encouraged friends & those in our community to respond to the prompt in 140-characters or less on a handwritten postcard. Runners-up received collections of signed books by Field Office Poets & other ephemera. Winners received box sets of hardback books & manuscript consultations.
DIGITAL EXHIBITS OF HANDWRITTEN ENTRIES
WINNERS & FINALISTS
In 2014, a jury of Field Office Poets blind selected five blind postcard submissions to be considered. The judge was Ada Limón. The winner received a signed, limited edition box set of Nikky Finney’s collections in hardcovers. (Learn more about this collection here).
Again in 2015, a jury of Field Office Poets blind selected three postcard submissions to be considered. The judge was Ross Gay, and the winner received a 30-minute manuscript consultation with Dorianne Laux.
In 2016, a jury of Field Office Poets blind selected three postcard submissions to be considered. The judge this year was Adrian Matejka, and the winner received a 30-minute manuscript consultation with Gregory Pardlo.
What Do You Miss?
2014
Winner: Rassan Salandy (card submitted from Brooklyn, NY); Postcard #34
What Do You Call This Place?
2015
Winner: Keetje Kuipers (card submitted from Montgomery, AL)
Postcard from Mars
2016
Winner: Jessica Smith, sent from New York, NY
Past Collective Events
2019 FIERCE LOVE READING
Our last collective reading was on March 28, 2019. Photos from the reading are here.
2017 FIERCE LOVE READING
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, The True Reformer Building in Washington, D.C. was the first structure designed, financed, and built after Reconstruction by African-American hands. In February of 2017, we gathered together in that sacred space to deliver a collective reading. You may view the videos are here.