How to Use chapbook in a Sentence

chapbook

noun
  • Kwiatkowski is also a noted poet whose latest work, Crops, is a heart-rending chapbook about the horrors of the twentieth century.
    Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 12 Jan. 2022
  • Over the years, his works appeared in numerous chapbooks, and even The New York Times.
    Laura Demarco, cleveland.com, 13 Sep. 2019
  • Our work filled a chapbook, a term used for slim volumes of creative work.
    Maria Shine Stewart, cleveland, 21 Mar. 2020
  • Dublin is writing new poems for a handmade chapbook to give Lewin as one of the gifts.
    Heather Knight, SFChronicle.com, 19 Dec. 2020
  • Yuki Tanaka is the author of the chapbook Séance in Daylight.
    Yuki Tanaka, The New Republic, 12 Aug. 2021
  • Palmer-Baker said her next writing project is a chapbook about her parents.
    oregonlive.com, 17 July 2019
  • Meet the authors: Chelsea Biondolillo is the author of two prose chapbooks, Ologies and #Lovesong.
    Sarah Menkedick, Longreads, 24 July 2019
  • Smith’s chapbook, Zodiac B, was published by Ninepin Press in 2016.
    Travis Smith, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
  • Following the event, the chapbook will be available for purchase on 826CHI's website and in the studio with the proceeds going back into the program.
    Katie Powers, Chicago Reader, 14 June 2018
  • Surowiecki has published seven chapbooks and five full poetry collections and has won many awards for his work.
    Carole Goldberg, courant.com, 30 May 2018
  • Orphanides is a member of the Connecticut River Poets and the author of a poetry chapbook and a collection.
    Carole Goldberg, courant.com, 19 June 2019
  • The new works, a set of poetry chapbooks, are the first titles Deep Vellum has published by Dallas writers since its establishment in 2013.
    Dan Singer, Dallas News, 8 Aug. 2019
  • Meanwhile, Trent and local poets organized a chapbook in Cheyney’s honor.
    Paula Allen, San Antonio Express-News, 20 Nov. 2021
  • Poems from four previous books or chapbooks are collected here.
    Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Sep. 2019
  • The chapbook ends optimistically in the borough of Brooklyn, where the young speaker lives happily, sometimes seen in the neighborhood eating bagels with friends and writing new poems.
    NBC News, 26 May 2017
  • Participants will work with Trentham and each other in groups and individual conferences to write and revise poems that will be the basis for a chapbook.
    Carole Goldberg, courant.com, 28 June 2017
  • One section is drawn from a handwritten chapbook that describes an 18th-century settlement in Appalachia near a magical fountain whose water obliterates the mind of anyone who drinks it.
    Ron Charles, Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2019
  • Stalin’s blue pencil, unlike that of other editors, glided across not just poetry chapbooks and literary journals but life itself.
    Aaron Lake Smith, Harper's magazine, 24 June 2019
  • The other was Bill Knott, an obscure but equally intriguing figure: a poet, artist, and illustrator, who penned several books, leaflets, chapbooks, and broadsides, along with, years later, blog posts and comment-section diatribes.
    Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2017
  • Fleischer is widely published in small independent press chapbooks, anthologies and journals.
    Carole Goldberg, courant.com, 2 May 2018

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