Taught by Joni Wallace / Six Mondays, September 14 through October 19, 6:00 to 8:00 pm / $182.00

This course is sold out. To be placed on the wait list, email Cybele Knowles at knowles@email.arizona.edu.

The chapbook, or “little book,” embraces smallness and largeness, brevity and expansion. It is humble but not diminutive, precise and beautiful. It is the physical combination of art and text. In this workshop, we will take a small group of your writings and/or visual art and create a “little book” of your making. To do this this, we will employ in-class writing exercises and some experimental techniques to generate new possibilities in content and form. We’ll also look at the history of chapbooks, the presses who publish them, some simple bookmaking techniques, and explore some of the amazing chapbooks housed in the Poetry Center’s special collection. By the end of the course, every participant will have created and polished a 10 to 12-page chapbook of their own.

This course is recommended for writers and visual artists with previous workshop experience. Please bring with you to the first day of class either 1 to 2 poems, a short prose piece (1 to 2 pages), and/or 1 to 2 visual art pieces that you would like to expand or deconstruct and that you see as the seeds for your chapbook.