Indigo Ink Press, Inc., a Canton-based nonprofit literary publisher, has announced that it will make a $500 donation to ArtsinStark’s SmArts Program this month. The SmArts program is an educational initiative designed to bring the arts into our schools to create smARTer kids. This donation is based upon sales to date of Indigo Ink’s first book, Stark ARThology, the first book dedicated to the artists of Stark County, Ohio. The project was funded in part by a Special Project grant from the County Arts Council in 2010.

Indigo Ink Press launched their first literary title, Paper Covers Rock & Triplicity: Poem in Threes, a dual, “flip edition” poetry chapbook by poets Chella Courington and Kristen McHenry with an evening of readings of the collection by local artists and community leaders on Oct. 21st.

The release of Paper Covers Rock and Triplicity: Poems in Threes, Indigo Ink’s first flip-edition poetry chapbook, will be celebrated with a reading of poems from the collection on Friday, Oct. 21, at Buzzbin Magazine headquarters in downtown Canton.

Executive director & publisher Jess Bennett offers her unique, new kid on the block perspective on the world of small press publishing with the launch of her Tumblr blog, Quirky & Wry: Chronicles of a Publishing Newbie.

Indigo Ink Press will be a vendor at ArtsinStark’s upcoming ArtisAlive, the annual two-day art show and sale at the Cultural Center in Canton.