Poetry Book Layout
Mountains of the Moon
I worked on this proect with Russell Strauss, a longtime member of the National Federation of State Poetry Societies and the Tennessee Poets Society. Strauss had been a poet for many years but had never published a book of poetry. That's where I came in, creating a cover design and a layout. I also performed the duties of an editor, putting the poems in order, and giving the book a title.
I created the layout and cover designs in Adobe InDesign. I used this software to create parent pages for the running title and the page numbers in the footer and to generate a table of contents. I used an online source to generate a UPC barcode for the back cover.
I centered the longest line of the poem and used a guide line to determine where to place the poem on the x-axis. For the y-axis placement, I centered the shorter poem in relation to its neighbor, nesting it. My desire was for the poems to be both readable and to look good on the pages.
The Full Cover
2025 Agates
The Full Cover
