#chapbooks posts — Ben Crowder https://bencrowder.net/blog/tag/chapbooks/ Feed for blog posts tagged with #chapbooks. Thu, 16 Apr 2026 02:21:36 GMT en-US https://bencrowder.net/ Some Square Poems https://bencrowder.net/blog/2026/some-square-poems/ https://bencrowder.net/blog/2026/some-square-poems/ Sun, 25 Jan 2026 12:00:00 GMT Another new digital chapbook: Some Square Poems, with 140 very short square poems. (“Square,” by the way, here means that the number of syllables per line matches the number of lines in the poem. It’s an arbitrary constraint I made up for myself on this project, though it turns out I’m not the only one who has thought of it and given it the same name. Or perhaps I once read about the form and then promptly forgot that I had.) It’s available for free in PDF.

I’ve been working on these for about a month, writing them down in my Field Notes notebook, and have had a lot of fun with the form. The typesetting was also fun; I initially set it in Freight Text but then, after designing the cover, switched to Futura to match.

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]]> The Dig Unsettling https://bencrowder.net/blog/2026/the-dig-unsettling/ https://bencrowder.net/blog/2026/the-dig-unsettling/ Fri, 23 Jan 2026 12:00:00 GMT Introducing The Dig Unsettling, a twenty-page digital chapbook available for free in EPUB and PDF. It contains five new short stories I wrote in 2025, all more or less in the horror genre.

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