Making a Poetry Chapbook

This is chapbook creation week in the class I’m taking with awesome teacher, Christina Burress. My printer decided to take a vacation, so I considered my options:

1. Create a chapbook using InDesign (which I’ve been wanting to learn anyway) and submit a digital version.
2. Take my flash drive to Staples to have them print copies and use them to create a hands-on version.

I started on Monday by creating my layout in InDesign. After adding in all of my poems and some of my own photos, I realized, it wasn’t where my heart was. I wanted to paint, cut, and paste.

While I pondered hand-writing all of my poems, I went with Xerox copies instead. Because my book is so large, I decided to create an accordion binding:

On about Wednesday I got the urge to make some leaf and flower prints. Then I pulled out the watercolors. Here are some photos from my work:

If you’re interested in book-making, here is a favorite book from my collection that I refer to when creating chapbooks.



I will post additional photos next week when I am finished. Thanks for reading!

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