Levellers Press

Levellers Press http://www.levellerspress.com/ The earliest publishers
were also printers. We have worked successfully with authors and publishers all over the U. S.

These noble careers diverged as the cost of owning newer, high speed printing equipment became too expensive an investment for most publishers. Those publishers who continued to print, and there are a number in the Connecticut Valley of Massachusetts, preserve the hands-on creation of fine works of art and literature. Adastra Press, Kat Ran Press, Pennyroyal Press, Swamp Press, and Warwick Press a

ll work locally, carrying on a 500-year-old tradition, creatively combining letterpress, offset, and high-resolution digital imaging. Levellers Press, formed by the worker-owners of Collective Copies in 2009, comes from a completely different direction to a publishing world in flux. We have witnessed a revolution in imaging technology from the first analog color copiers, to Xerox Docutechs in the 1990s, to today's 2400 dpi Xerox Docucolors printing on sheets as large as 13 x 19 inches. Unwieldy graphic files and slow computer processing have given way to lean Adobe Acrobat documents, high speed scanners and speedier RIPs (rasterized image processing). Our core business allows us to own this new technology, including the bindery equipment that completes a high quality print-on-demand publication. We find ourselves imbedded in the rich political and cultural environment of Western Massachusetts where many worthy manuscripts go unpublished. As Levellers Press we hope to provide a ready vehicle for authors whether we publish their work or help in a self-publishing effort. and welcome all inquiries.

With Hampshire in the news every day right now, the story of how it all began deserves remembering. The spirit of educat...
05/08/2026

With Hampshire in the news every day right now, the story of how it all began deserves remembering. The spirit of educational reform flourished over the nearly 60 years since its founding and author Richard Tice Alpert was there as professor and administrator.

“Hampshire College was an audacious idea long before it opened as a new liberal arts college in 1970. Both its educational and financial ideas represented a sharp break from traditional higher education. Rich Alpert captures the excitement and uncertainty of building a new institution. He examines the creativity, tenacity, and chutzpah that were required to raise the funds, build a campus, recruit and retain students, develop a curriculum and much more. ... He recognizes the extraordinary achievements without overlooking the difficulties that plague a small liberal arts college with a very limited endowment.” — Penina Glazer was a founding member of Hampshire College, Dean of Faculty from 1976 to 1983.

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The Communitarian Moment: The Radical Challenge of the Northampton Association Third Edition launches this Sunday, April...
04/20/2026

The Communitarian Moment: The Radical Challenge of the Northampton Association Third Edition launches this Sunday, April 26 at 3:00 pm at the David Ruggles Center Founders Day Celebration, "All are interested in all" at Bombyx on Pine Street in Florence. Author Christopher Clark will lead a panel with Steve Strimer, Tom Goldscheider, and Larisa Demos of the Valley Alliance of Worker Cooperatives discussing the 1840s utopian community of at the center of Florence's progressive past. Get tickets at the Bombyx site at https://bombyx.live/ His second book, Letters from an American Utopia will also be available with a special price of $37.65 when purchased together.

You can preorder my new book, FAIRSTED, now from Levellers Press. It offers a new take on Olmsted’s beginnings and explo...
10/05/2025

You can preorder my new book, FAIRSTED, now from Levellers Press. It offers a new take on Olmsted’s beginnings and explores how his parks were designed to help heal America’s democracy after the Civil War. The book will be released on October 27. Order yours now!

We are so grateful for all our co-cop partners for making this dream a reality 🌲🌲
03/03/2025

We are so grateful for all our co-cop partners for making this dream a reality 🌲🌲

NORTHAMPTON — Collective Copies, a worker-owned, union copy shop, is in the midst of expanding and renovating its production facility at 93 Main St. in Florence, a project that will accommodate the consolidation of its longtime site at 71 South Pleasant St. in Amherst when that storefront closes o...

Come meet Hedgerow Poet Mary Koncel this Tuesday, May 21st at Broadside Books in Northampton, Mass.
05/16/2024

Come meet Hedgerow Poet Mary Koncel this Tuesday, May 21st at Broadside Books in Northampton, Mass.

This Saturday 4/13 at the Meekins Library in Williamsburg, MA meet Jim Armenti, famed singer/songwriter of the Lonesome ...
04/11/2024

This Saturday 4/13 at the Meekins Library in Williamsburg, MA meet Jim Armenti, famed singer/songwriter of the Lonesome Brothers, a larger-than-life rock and roller who wrote a wry, brilliant poem a day and didn’t tell anyone. In Sun on the Muddy. Jim gives us fifty irresistible reflections on the objects and people that make a life: a shell from the Everglades, a cowboy wallet, his mother’s colander, his father’s mandolin. Jim takes you to his grandparents’ basement “Full of the things of the five grown children/ medals from the war, a cornet… A coal room still dusty, next to the wine/ making room. The past drunk away but still/ Living.”

Meet Dave Madeloni, a photographer who captures, as he says, the “poetry of puddles.” Dave finds stunning beauty all around, not where we ordinarily look, but right in front of us reflected in the thousands of puddles we tend to ignore. Meet yourself, too, mirrored in the places where these poems and photos intersect. In fragments and recollections, great moments of laughter and sorrow, something found, something lost, where the muddy is illuminated by the sun.

2:00 PM in the Hawks~Hayden Community Room

02/12/2024

Snow Day!
There will be no walk-in hours on Tuesday, Feb 13

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Amherst, MA
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