I’m thrilled to announce that the print version of Word Craft: Prose & Poetry is now available on Amazon. The last week has been a wild ride! I did my best to keep the costs low enough for everyone to purchase the book. Please enjoy! ❤
Are you ready to learn how to craft Japanese and American poetry? Consider this book the first step on your journey to learning the basics of how to craft syllabic poetry. Inside, you will discover many new forms, syllable combinations, and interpretations of the different Japanese and American forms and structures of haiku, senryu, haiga, tanka, renga/solo renga, gogyohka, haibun, tanka prose, the cinquain, and its variations, Etheree, nonet, and shadorma poetry.
So… what are you waiting for? Let’s craft syllabic poetry together!
Let’s celebrate!
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An avid reader, Colleen M. Chesebro rekindled her love of writing poetry after years spent working in the accounting industry. These days, she loves crafting syllabic poetry, flash fiction, and creative fiction and nonfiction.
In addition to poetry books, Chesebro’s publishing career includes participation in various anthologies featuring short stories, flash fiction, and poetry. She’s an avid supporter of her writing community on Word Craft Poetry.com by organizing and sponsoring a weekly syllabic poetry challenge, called #TankaTuesday, where participants experiment with traditional and current forms of Japanese and American syllabic poetry.
Chesebro is an assistant editor of The Congress of the Rough Writers Flash Fiction Anthology & Gitty Up Press, a micro-press founded by Charli Mills and Carrot Ranch.
In January 2022, Colleen founded Unicorn Cats Publishing Services to assist poets and authors in creating eBooks and print books for publication. In addition, she creates affordable book covers for Kindle and print books.
Chesebro lives in the house of her dreams in mid-Michigan surrounded by the Great Lakes with her husband and two (unicorn) cats, Chloe & Sophie.
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44 thoughts on “Word Craft: Prose & Poetry, The Art of Crafting Syllabic Poetry is now Available in Paperback”
ordered! should get it Sunday or Monday! ❤️
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WOW! Thank you so much, Ruth! ❤
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Reblogged this on Frank J. Tassone and commented:
#Haiku Happenings #4: Colleen Chesebro’s new book on writing #Haikai and other forms is out!
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Thanks again for your share, Frank. ❤
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Congratulations, Colleen!! Well done!
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Jan, thanks so much. I’m really happy about how this book turned out. ❤
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WTG!
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Thanks, Annette. It’s quite exciting. I need a nap! LOL!
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Copied down the info for order on my new Documents Page; Books to Buy!!
Hopefully with a few more books from my friends I’ll be ordering soon 😀
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Yay, Jules! You’re the best! 🌸
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How exciting Colleen! So happy for you.
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Thanks so much. I just love all the poetry! 🌸
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Woohoo!
All ordered, Sis!
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Thank you! 🥰❤️🌸
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Congratulations, Colleen! It’s party time for celebration!
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Yay! I’m so happy this book is now “birthed!”
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I’m happy for your baby, Colleen!
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Thanks, Miriam 🥰
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Just checked out! Not available in Amazon.ca yet! 😦
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What? It should be soon! 🤦🏼♀️ Amazon… 😵💫
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I checked again last night and it was OK! I got it! 🙂
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Yay! Thank you, Elizabeth. ❤️
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Hip hip hurray!!
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Thanks, Liz. 🥰
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Just ordered it! (K)
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Yay! Thank you very much, Kerfe. I have quite a bit of your poetry in that book. ❤️
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I look forward to seeing for myself.
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Added to my Kindle, Colleen! ❤️
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Thanks so much, Franci 🌸🌸🌸❤️
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😊
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Congratulations Colleen.
Looking forward to reading it!
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Thanks so much! Yay! ❤️
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Congratulations!!! 📚🎉🥳💖
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Thanks, Sarah. This was a fun research project. ❤️
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Sure to be a great book. I’m ordering my copy this weekend. 💖
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Thank you, Sarah. I tried to do justice to all of the forms we use in our challenge except for the rhyming forms. That book can come later. LOL! ❤
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One thing at a time, right? Celebrate this. Get to that later. 🙂
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Exactly! Sounds like a plan!
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I’m late to the show, but mine is now ordered. I look forward to reading it.
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Thank you, so much. I used many of your poems as examples, Ken. ❤
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🙂
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