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Definition of chapbook
: a small book containing ballads, poems, tales, or tracts
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Origin and Etymology of chapbook
chapman + book
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