Author: Juan Perez Sr

HOUSE OF THE FIGHTING CHUPACABRAS PRESENTS
A Basic Poetry Workshop Workbook Series No. 3
¡Que viva el chupacabra!
A Resource Manual To Chupanery
Or Types Of Poems Based On The Legend, Myth, And Lore
Of The South Texas Cryptid
JUAN MANUEL PÉREZ
2nd Edition

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Series Introduction: p. 3
The Chupaku p. 4
The Chuquatrain p. 8
The Chupanka p. 12
The Chuponnet p. 16
The Chupingle p. 22

An Introduction To The Basic
Poetry Workshop Workbook Series
This series of poetry workshop workbooks were inspired and developed mainly from poetry writing programs I have conducted with the following main groups: The San Antonio Poets Association, The Alamo Area Poets of Texas, The San Antonio Writers Guild, and The San Angelo Writers Club, plus my numerous reading presentations in, out, and around the great state of Texas.
Now I present them to you, the novice and the master poet alike.
These simple poems and poetry activities are designed to help spark your own ideas on writing just in case you are in a fix or you have simply ran out of poetic magic (it happens to the very best of us).
I hope this workbook proves useful to you and I wish you the best of luck in your poetry writing… and reading.
Juan Manuel Pérez
Corpus Christi, Texas

THE CHUPAKU
Everything you ever learned from straight-faced English professors, high school grammar police, and serious poet laureates is about to be damaged and changed… forever… ever… ever… ever.
So if you harbor such serious fears of stepping outside of that perfect, square box of poetic forms then please get up and step away from this rebellious little chapbook written by a person that lives between the borders of real and unreal, orthodox poetsy and unorthodox, conventional English and an unconventional language mix. Run… Run away fast… Leave it sitting on that same flat surface, bare naked and ready to brainwash some other willing versifying and composing minion…. Leave… leave now!