Chapbook comes from the Old English for "cheap book"

I finished putting together a new chapbook yesterday. It’s entirely new work—stuff I’ve been working on for the past couple of months. I’ll send it out for at the end of the month. The experience of writing these was very different for me. Usually titling poems is the hardest part of writing them, and with this series (because they are definitely linked) I wrote from the titles first in most cases.

I had troubling titling the chapbook, though. I don’t want to reveal what I decided yet—I’ll save that for after I hear back from some contests.

I’m going to a “brown bag art exchange” party tonight, and I think I’m going to make a cute little version of it as my giveaway. Hopefully people will enjoy it.