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Forbes Library, the public library for Northampton is a beneficiary of the Northampton Book Fair, receiving a portion of the proceeds from admission ticket sales. Forbes Library provides a wide range of information, materials and services to all of the people of Northampton and Massachusetts. The library’s building offers a friendly, welcoming physical environment which encourages the civic, intellectual, and cultural pursuits of the public. Forbes serves as a community mee

New England Public Media and the NEPM Book Club are our media sponsors. Southern New England Antiquarian Booksellers, Northampton Center for the Arts, and Yiddish Book Center are our community sponsors. N We wholeheartedly thank you for your continuing support and assistance in promoting the Tenth Edition of the book fair in November. 2026. For more information on our sponsors.

Photo of Eliot Cardinaux by poet Denver Butson Amidst the general feelings of uneasiness and chaos emerging from the 2016 election, Eliot Cardinaux founded The Bodily Press. As the founding editor, book designer, fundraiser, and empressario, he seems to work around the clock to serve up poetry and music to audiences here and around the world. In the past 18 months alone, the press has released 30 books by 20 authors, many first-time book-length manuscripts and chapbooks, w