HOW TO MAKE A CHAPBOOK
(from Juliana Spahr’s curriculum site: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~spahr/s03313framest.htm

First, assemble your work in the order you want it to appear.

Then make a mock-up. Take some blank pieces of paper and fold them in half and then mark what poem goes where.

Remember to leave room for a title page and a copy right page.
Quotes or dedications at the beginning are optional but often add to the book.
A table of contents is optional. It traditionally starts on a right page.
The first poem traditionally starts on a right page.

If you typeset your book in a program like Pagemaker, the program will build the booklet for you. After you've got the poems to look how you want them to look (in this case you just input them in the order you want them to appear in your book), you then choose the "build booklet" command under "options." This is the easiest way to do this.

If you typeset your book in a word processing program, you have to do the layout on your own. It is very tricky. Remember that any changes you make to one page, might change other pages.

You can also cut and paste your poems. Then photocopy what you've cut and pasted.

When you've got the booklet made and the pages in the right order, you have to think about how to bind it. There are two easy options. One is to go to Kinkos or another photocopy store and saddle-staple it (they usually have these long-armed staplers accessible and free to use.)

You can also sew it. In order to sew, take a thick thread. Take your needle and put it through the inside middle of the book. Leave some thread at the end. Now that the needle is on the outside, take the needle up to about two inches from the top of the book. Insert needle there towards the inside of the book. Take the needle down the inside of the book to about two inches from the bottom. Push the needle to the outside. Then come back up with the needle to the middle of the book. Reuse the original hole. Put the needle through. Take the needle off the thread and tie the two strings together on the inside.