Bringing together poets, visual artists and professionals editing and publishing within the genre, this collection showcases the craft, practices and influences of those creating multimodal poetry today. Pairing examples and discussions of writers' work with craft essays by them and exercises to help writers develop their own ways of combining poetry with multimedia, A Maker's Guide to Multimodal Poetry is both a catalyst for creativity and a practical guide to exploring the vast potential of multimodal literature.

Beyond describing the tools and composition processes used to create their works, from how to blend different mediums, synthesize text and visuals, experiment with sound and rhythm, and embrace interactivity, poets, artists and students also outline the literary and aesthetic concepts that helped them traverse disciplines from visual arts and digital media to performance art. With exploration of a broad range of forms and methods, the essays discuss audio-modality, image-text hybrids, erasure, musical poetry and musical influence, alphanumeric translations, lyrical improvisation, neo-concrete poetry, using the archive and found poetry, mythic imaginings and the use of tactile experience. Offering a roadmap for navigating uncharted creative frontiers, this book defines the field of multimodal poetics whilst sparking a plethora of new ideas and approaches to poetry making.

Benjamin Gunsberg is Associate Professor of English at Utah State University USA. His doctoral work at the University of Michigan focused on the impact of digital technology on teaching writing, which he developed through qualitative studies of courses that integrated audio/video production and computer coding into the undergraduate English curriculum. His scholarship has appeared in The Journal of Creative Writing Studies, Computers and Composition, and Teaching/Writing: The Journal of Writing Teacher Education, among others and he has most recently contributed the chapter “Discovery, Play, and Motivation in the Multimodal Creative Writing Classroom” to Multimodal and Digital Creative Writing Pedagogies (2023). He is the author of the poetry collection Welcome, Dangerous Life (2018) and the chapbook Rhapsodies with Portraits (2015). His poems appear in numerous literary magazines, including Poetry Daily, DIAGRAM, and Mid-American Review.

C. R. Grimmer is Assistant Professor of Poetry Writing at Utah State University, USA, where they advise both graduate and undergraduate students on multimodal poetry projects alongside traditional alphanumeric poetry texts. Grimmer received their Ph.D. in Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Washington (UW, Seattle) and they have taught multimodal composition and multimodal creative writing at Seattle University, the Seattle and Bothell UW campuses, and South Seattle Community College. Their own poems have been featured as audio museum installations, most recently at the Seattle Convention Center's “Sound Summit” exhibit and the Nora Eccles Heritage Museum of Art. They have presented at numerous conferences on multimodal poetry as social justice intervention, including the Association for Writers and Publishers (AWP) and the Modern Language Association (MLA). Their book of poetry, The Lyme Letters, was completed with a Harlan Hahn Disability Studies Fellowship and was published in 2021.