How to Use chapbook in a Sentence

chapbook

noun
  • 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
  • Palmer-Baker said her next writing project is a chapbook about her parents.
    — oregonlive.com, 17 July 2019
  • Poems from four previous books or chapbooks are collected here.
    — Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Sep. 2019
  • 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
  • One finds a sacred wonder and delight in language in every poem in each of their nine collections and eight chapbooks.
    — Literary Hub, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Yuki Tanaka is the author of the chapbook Séance in Daylight.
    — Yuki Tanaka, The New Republic, 12 Aug. 2021
  • Over the years, his works appeared in numerous chapbooks, and even The New York Times.
    — Laura Demarco, cleveland.com, 13 Sep. 2019
  • Over the next 300 years, chapbooks and broadside ballads became mainstays in Britain.
    — Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 8 Nov. 2025
  • Meanwhile, Trent and local poets organized a chapbook in Cheyney’s honor.
    — Paula Allen, San Antonio Express-News, 20 Nov. 2021
  • 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
  • Smith’s chapbook, Zodiac B, was published by Ninepin Press in 2016.
    — Travis Smith, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
  • Harjo wrote her first volume of poetry, a nine-poem chapbook called The Last Song, in 1975.
    — Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Apr. 2025
  • 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
  • Fleischer is widely published in small independent press chapbooks, anthologies and journals.
    — Carole Goldberg, courant.com, 2 May 2018
  • 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
  • The students spend the semester writing and polishing a novel excerpt, memoir excerpt, or chapbook length collection of poetry.
    — The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 22 Sep. 2025
  • 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 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
  • Bores wrote in his 1590 chapbook a year later that Stumpp’s head was also severed from his body and placed upon a stake, providing a gruesome warning to the community.
    — Sean Neumann, People.com, 1 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • To this end, earlier this year, Lost Kite announced its inaugural chapbook prize, whose winner—to be selected by Hanif Abdurraqib—will be announced this fall.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 11 June 2026
  • 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
  • The project will also feature the creation of large-scale murals with local muralists and student artists from Detroit schools, along with the production of an audio poetry chapbook highlighting the city’s diverse voices.
    — Nour Rahal, Freep.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • The festival closes out with a poetry slam hosted by Button Poetry, who will offer a chapbook deal to the evening’s winner of the slam; only poets from Massachusetts can compete.
    — Nina MacLaughlin, BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2023
  • Her chapbook Through the New Body won the Poetry Society of America’s Chapbook Fellowship and was published in 2020.
    — Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Her chapbook, The White Swallow, was selected by Aimee Bender as the winner of the Gold Line Press Chapbook Competition; her short fiction has been anthologized in Best American Nonrequired Reading and has appeared in The Kenyon Review and The Iowa Review.
    — Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Copyright © 2026 by Maya Salameh Maya Salameh is the author of How to Make an Algorithm in the Microwave (University of Arkansas Press, 2022), winner of the 2022 Etel Adnan Prize, and the chapbook rooh (Paper Nautilus Press, 2020).
    — Literary Hub, 3 Apr. 2026

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