While chapbooks can be crafted from handmade paper with intricate bindings, they can also be made on the fly with whatever’s at hand. In this workshop, we’ll write some poetry and learn a few basic chapbook folds.

In the process of transferring our newly generated poems into the chapbooks that we’ve made, we’ll also consider the process of editing and what goes into crafting poetry.

Location: Room C245, UBC Robson Square

Facilitator: Keven Spenst

About The Host

Kevin Spenst

A poet, teacher, and reviewer, Kevin Spenst (he/him) has published four full-length poetry collections, most recently A Bouquet Brought Back from Space (Anvil Press, 2024) and 17 chapbooks, most recently Windowful (Anstruther Press, 2025). He is one of the organizers of the Dead Poets Reading Series, has a chapbook review column for subTerrain magazine, occasionally co-hosts Wax Poetic on Vancouver Co-op Radio, and is one of the poetry ambassadors for Vancouver’s newest poet laureate Elee Kraljii Gardiner. He is the 2025 Poetry Mentor at The Writer’s Studio at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver on unceded xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) territory where he cohabitates with the one and only Cheryl Rossi.