Chapbook design

All those nights when you can't reach me? I'm making these things. When it comes to poetry chapbooks, I’m a DIY gal. So far I’ve self-published nine chapbooks at home using InDesign or QuarkXPress, a couple of desktop printers, and a huge stash of paper from a print shop that went out of business*. I edited books for a living for many years, and I still get a creative rush out of designing and assembling them. So if it means giving up a few evenings to print, fold, staple, and trim chapbooks…

Virtual Browsing at the NYC/CUNY Chapbook Festival | Real Pants

a book grows in & out of itself

Throughout history, chapbooks have been the influence for literary masterpieces, music, film, and even love. Learn more about chapbooks and why they are so popular.

Chapbooks were originally small, inexpensive books sold from street carts by merry olde English peddlers called chapmen. From the 1500s through part of the 1800s, these little books, on a variety of topics, were so cheap that once their owners read them, the pages were often used as “bum fodder” (toilet paper).

My dear blogging friend, Mike Allegra, made a particularly interesting comment after reading one of my blog posts. I had published a poem that day and he recommended that I get working on a chapbo…

Collect Your Shorties Do you have micros and flashes that might like to live together? Make a chapbook and send them out! I’m seeing more interest in fiction chapbooks all the time, so I expe…

poetry chapbook - each handmade book features a small original monoprint stitched to cover - each of course different.... book available from my shop later today limited edition 50

I made my own book using the app. Here it is. Now that National Poetry Month is half over — and with the school year winding down, too — it’s a good time to think about ways to pu…

Chapbook outlining the work of four influential graphic artists: Minalima, Brett Helquist, Gris Grimly, and Wes Wilson.

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Handmade book of poetry.

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