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Founded in 2014, Cardboard House Press is a space for dialogue between poetics that investigate social, environmental, political, cartographic and linguistic formations. Cardboard House Press publishes poetry in translation in the United States by Latin American and Spanish authors and prints books through diverse processes, including letterpress, block printing, stencil, screenprinting and digital. A series of our publications are made by hand in community workshops. All our books are bilingual.
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Founded in 2014, Cardboard House Press is a space for dialogue between poetics that investigate social, environmental, political, cartographic and linguistic formations. Cardboard House Press publishes poetry in translation in the United States by Latin American and Spanish authors and prints books through diverse processes, including letterpress, block printing, stencil, screenprinting and digital. A series of our publications are made by hand in community workshops. All our books are bilingual.
Cardboard House Press is a 501c3 nonprofit organization dedicated to the creation of Spanish-English bilingual spaces through small-press publishing, community workshops, and bilingual events. Our work acts as a platform for the exchange of ideas, uplifting new meanings that provoke connection and social action.
Book Art Workshops
A series of our publications are made by hand in community-based workshops. These workshops not only expand the audience for the books we publish, but they also provide a hands-on experience in which community members participate in production, develop connections to the poetry, and widen their horizons of poetry and culture. Workshop participants learn techniques to hand sew and bind pages, marble endpapers, linocut print, and create book covers from recycled cardboard. We are proud to be part of the Latin American cartonera movement, using recycled materials for literary creation, and we are one of few cartonera collectives active in the United States. Learn more about Cardboard House Press’ Cartonera Collective.
Why Cardboard House Press?
The Cardboard House is the first book by Peruvian writer Martín Adán, published in 1928, and it is considered a precursor to the Latin American literary boom. The work covers part of Adán’s life through a critical and ironic look at his surroundings in Lima at the beginning of the 20th Century. The Cardboard House is a small masterpiece that goes beyond literary genres and renews the narrative aesthetic in the avant-garde era.
Our publishing project takes the name of this book as homage to one of the most important literary figures of the 20th Century, and we employ the title’s meaning of breaking the mold and giving literature a new dimension.
Editorial Director
Giancarlo Huapaya
Associate Editors
Ilana Dann Luna
Honora Spicer
Design
Mutandis
Community Projects
Honora Spicer
Cartonera Collective
Claudia Nuñez
Mary Hope Whitehead Lee
Ryan Greene
BOARD MEMBERS
Cristian Medina︎ Ariana Rosales︎
Honora Spicer︎Jaime Francisco Matorras
Retail and Library Orders
Please purchase through our distributor, Asterism Books, for wholesale and library orders.
International Orders
For international shipping, please order Cardboard House Press books through Asterism. We do not offer international shipping for orders through our website.
