Learn to create impactful poetry chapbooks through detailed guidance on selecting poems, budgeting, and the production process, ensuring your work reaches its audience.
This course teaches you how to craft your own poetry chapbook through three key phases. You'll learn to choose poems, manage your time and finances, and understand both physical and digital options. It's a friendly guide to avoid the mistakes many poets make!
Write your poems, and deliver them to the right readers!
If a tree falls in the forest and there's no one around to hear it, does it make a sound? It's an age-old question. Now, think of your favorite poet or writer as a tree, and think of your favorite story or poem as a sound. Aren't you glad you were around to "hear it fall?"
If you're a poet who's ready to share his or her work with the world, do you know how to make sure there's someone around to read it?
I've learned a lot about the process of creating poetry chapbooks by trial and error over the past twelve years. I've created this course to share what works and what doesn't work, hopefully helping other poets avoid my most costly mistakes.
In this workshop course, I introduce and demonstrate the steps to creating a poetry chapbook in a three part timeline: preproduction, production, and postproduction. I break each of those three major parts of the chapbook project timeline into discussions and demonstrations of both administrative and creative tasks. I use videos, slides, and supplemental examples to guide students through the workshop. Students work a their own pace and set their own schedule for completion.
I work from the standpoint that chapbooks can't be defined by any one physical characteristic, and electronic chapbooks have just as big a place in my lessons as physical chapbooks. The secret is in the purpose and in the artistic currency. Want to know more? Sign up today!
Select the right poems for your collection.
Create front and back matter.
Budget your time and money.
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Amy Lynn Hess is an Atlanta area poet, painter, potter, publisher, professor, and dramaturg. She holds a B.S. in Theatre and Interpretation from Central Michigan University, an M.A. in Theatre History and Criticism from Ohio University, and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Naropa University's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. She has published three chapbooks of poetry and a...
It's not very good
not completely for me, but I am not even halfway through yet.
Yes it was exactly what I wanted to know
Really good practical advice. Clear and very well presented. Thanks
After completing the course, I got a lot of great information and now I know more about how to create a chapbook. My only issue was that on my computer (a Chromebook) the audio was very low, even when I turned the volume all the way up. But when I switched to my cell phone (Android) and turned the volume all the way up, the audio was much better. So just a note for the instructor. Thank you,
More info than what I was expecting so far. Very informative.
So far I've learned how to organize the planning process, some possibilities for formatting the book, and some ways to think about balancing money and time before diving in to the hands-on details.
The course material is delivered in a very calm voice that is easy to understand and follow. Also, the material has given me some things to consider that could be essential in my future decisions.
As someone who has never put together a chapbook before, this instruction was very helpful in providing a step-by-step approach with helpful tips along the way.
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Herb H.
Amy Lyn Hess delivered the nuts and bolts of creating a chapbook, in an engaging tone, with a ton of tips and techniques. I highly recommend this course for any poet or writer who wants to get their work out there.