Professional and creative poetry feedback from a published poet and poetry scholar. This gig provides a manuscript edit of your chapbook or pamphlet. (See FAQ below!)

In this edit I will provide:

Structural Edit

Developmental Edit

Line Edit

while specifically looking at voice, tone, flow, consistency, and theme. I analyze poem by poem and the collection together as a whole.

I can also help advise you in publishing next steps!

"I love chapbooks. They’re in some ways the ideal form in which to publish and read poems. You can read 19 poems in a way you can’t sit down and read 60 to 70 pages of poems." — Robert Morgan

A chapbook is a short (10–30 poems) collection of poems with a unifying principle, theme, question, or experience. It is generally 20 pages of poetry, not including front matter etc.

It’s simply that Americans prefer the word ‘chapbook’ and British people prefer the word ‘pamphlet’.

Selecting poetry for a chapbook very often focuses on theme. Generally, poets write many more than 10-30 poems, and then pare it down the best ones.

Most poets write/publish one or more chapbooks/pamphlets before they write/publish a full collection. This provides experience in write and publication, as well as audience growth. Additionally, when you query a full collection, publishers may ask if you have written/published chapbooks before.