~~Saturday May 18th ~~ 10am – 4pm ~~  32 Mansfield St. Lower Allston~~

** Music and movies**
** Books and Zines**
**Clothes and Houseware**
**Art and Office Supplies**
** brick and / or brack**

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~~~All proceeds to benefit the library~~~

April is National Poetry Month

Papercut invites you to the library to check out our new poetry display

and to enjoy

readings by Antonio Ochoa, Jesse Mack, and maybe you?

We’ll also be raising some funds for our dear library, so there will be delicious baked goods for sale and opportunities to donate.

Hope to see you there!   Feel free to join and share the facebook event.

(Image from this blog)

We are pleased to announce that Papercut Zine Library has recently catalogued its 15000th zine! This is such a wonderful accomplishment; it really humbles all of us involved with the collective because it demonstrates the years and years of hard work of our librarians and the never-ending support of our patrons. Once again, thank you to all those who have helped make PZL what it is over all of these tumultuous, yet wonderful, years. After two relocations, we are still going strong, and there are some big plans in the works for the future. We are all very excited for the coming months and wherever this wild adventure that is organizing a completely volunteer-run zine library will bring us!

Please be sure to stop in and renew your yearly membership and/or convince your friends to help sustain the library by signing up. Every (re)new(ed) membership counts and helps us to continue serving as a resource for the metro-Boston zine/DIY/librarian community.

Also, what better time to stop in and browse zines than now! We have recently swapped out our fabulous February/March zine display on “relationships” for an equally terrific zine display of literature/poetry zines! Hand-picked by one of our librarians, we guarantee that the zines will leave you wanting to put the ink to the paper and draft your own zine full of witty lines and feelings. :)

Happy Spring,
Seanie, PZL

From now on, PCZL meetings will be held on the 1st, 2nd, 4th (and if there’s a 5th, the 5th) Monday night. On the 3rd week of each month, we will meet on Sunday afternoon instead!

Occasionally, we have also been switching to a chatroom meeting (oftentimes due to weather). We try to alert the list serve when this happens, but if you are planning on attending a meeting for the first time it’s a good idea to email us so that we can be in touch. Again, this doesn’t happen often, but we just want to make sure nobody shows up to an empty library!

If you’re interested in getting involved, Papercut is always looking for new volunteers. Email us at Papercut(at)rise up(dot)net for more info.

We apologize for the minor panic last week. For those who have not heard, Lorem Ipsum, the bookstore that Papercut lives in, is facing some serious financial trouble. Their landlord has extended the time they have to pay their back-rent, however, we are not quite sure what the future holds for the library or this store. Both are incredible resources, and now true staples of Inman Square. We will keep everybody updated as soon as we know more. Until then, please assume Papercut will contnue to be open during our regular hours (Friday-Monday, 2-7pm).

Thank you!

More info on the situation in the Phoenix Blog (Click here)

Here’s one more way to support Papercut zine Library: By buying some of our home-made merch online! All of these items are available in our library, but for those of you who are not local we would be happy to ship it out to you.

Check out our buttons, patches, t-shirts and membership packs~all designed and produced by local artists and/or Papercut librarians!

“Brianna Dearest is hitting the road for her first zine tour in celebration of the release of the 20th issue of her zine, “Motor City Kitty.” A perzine with a feminist slant, “Motor City Kitty” has been in publication since 2004.

Issue 20 focuses on Brianna working towards bettering her life in a variety of ways- from getting off the internet to getting relatively sober to traveling extensively.”

Brianna will be reading from her zine. If you are interested in reading, as well, please email us at papercut(at)riseup.net

RSVP Here!

(Image from Eric Arcia of Monkey Wrench Tattoo via http://icecoldzine.blogspot.com)