Slate Roof Press

Slate roof press is a member run press established in 2004 and committed to publishing massachusetts and regional poets.

Slate roof press.

The amount of heat a particular piece of slate can withstand really depends upon the stone itself. We publish limited edition art quality chapbooks which are designed by the poets and printed by member and master printer ed rayher. Combines humor and insight in thoughtful analyses of current events and political news. Slate roof is a member run press committed to publishing massachusetts and regional poets.

Online magazine of news politics technology and culture. Slate roof is a member run press committed to publishing massachusetts and regional poets. The collective is based in northfield where its members publish. Each poem will be printed in a beautiful limited letterpress edition of 100 numbered and signed copies.

Slate itself is fireproof but thin pieces of slate may shatter or fall apart if placed in a fire or hot oven while the stone is cool. We believe a book provides a theater for the words where the stage starts with the cover and moves inward through the physical narrative established by the pages a journey through time and space. We publish limited edition letterpress chapbooks. Thick quality pieces of slate may withstand the intense heat of a barbecue grill even better than the metal or plastics used on other parts of the grill.

According to rayher slate roof press is a poet driven poet run collective to publish poetry it s also entirely volunteer based. Winners of the slate roof press glass prize for an original broadside will each receive 250.