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You MUST Use the Word Smoothie: A Craft Essay in 50 Writing Prompts
Craft Chaps offers substantive essays by contemporary writers on creative writing practice. Each chap focuses on one aspect of craft and also contains a writing exercise and bibliography for further reading. They are freely downloadable at Sundress Publications and can be printed and stapled as 5x8 booklets.
As creative writing teachers, we've been frustrated by the lack of affordable texts available for our students. Introductory textbooks from major publishers often include anthologies of creative work which significantly increase cost, while book length works of aesthetic theory privilege one aesthetic perspective.
Craft Chaps aim to democratize creative writing education through making this material accessible for use both inside and outside the academy. We also recognize that "craft" is not a neutral term, and seek to contextualize it within a range of aesthetic and cultural contexts. Through offering chaps from different perspectives and literary communities, we encourage students to resist "universal", often cis, white, male notions of "good" literature.
The first featured in the new series are Chen Chen, Ángel García, and Bayo Ojikutu.
As creative writing teachers, we've been frustrated by the lack of affordable texts available for our students. Introductory textbooks from major publishers often include anthologies of creative work which significantly increase cost, while book length works of aesthetic theory privilege one aesthetic perspective.
Craft Chaps aim to democratize creative writing education through making this material accessible for use both inside and outside the academy. We also recognize that "craft" is not a neutral term, and seek to contextualize it within a range of aesthetic and cultural contexts. Through offering chaps from different perspectives and literary communities, we encourage students to resist "universal", often cis, white, male notions of "good" literature.
The first featured in the new series are Chen Chen, Ángel García, and Bayo Ojikutu.
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27 pages, ebook
Published January 1, 2019
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About the author
Chen Chen
34 books154 followersChen Chen is the author of two books of poetry, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency (2022) and When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities (2017), both published by BOA Editions and by Bloodaxe Books in the UK. His latest chapbook is Explodingly Yours (Ghost City Press, 2023). A Kundiman community member, his honors include the Thom Gunn Award, two Pushcart Prizes, the National Book Award longlist, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and United States Artists. His work appears in many publications, including three editions of The Best American Poetry and two editions of The Forward Book of Poetry. He teaches for the l0w-residency MFA programs at New England College, Stonecoast, and Antioch. He edits the online poetry journals, Underblong and the lickety~split. He holds an MFA from Syracuse University and a PhD from Texas Tech University. He lives in Rochester, NY with his partner, Jeff Gilbert, and their pug, Mr. Rupert Giles.
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March 18, 2020
We don’t deserve him
November 18, 2019
Thoroughly delightful & thoughtful & whimsical & brilliant, just like its author. A really fun & quick read to jumpstart some new poems & the work before the poems. &&&& some more ampersands for you, Chen &&&& oh lol... goodreads doesn't allow for ampersands...oh well, imagine where they might have gone!
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