Was at the Grolier Club last night for the launch of Granary Books' After Words: Visual and Experimental Poetry in Little Magazines and Small Presses, 1960–2025. "This book offers a visual and thematic journey through avant-garde, concrete, visual, and experimental poetics as they appeared in ephemeral little magazines and small press publications from the 1960s onward." The exhibit from the book (probably the other way round: the book is the catalogue for the show) at the Grolier Club will be there until July 26, with several talks and discussions.
I was around for 2/3rds of the time the show covers & admit I had never heard of many or most of the presses or magazines. I was at the bottom rung of production values: the magazine I co-edited had construction paper covers & blurry photography, what little of it there was.
One of the two authors, the brilliant enthusiast M.C. Kinniburgh, has in her bio that she's a member of the Grolier. The young friend I took with me, who is interested in & tracks down everything, told me there's a Reddit thread on how one gets invited to join the Grolier. It's for book collectors, dealers, & the like; more than that I do not know.