Additional Resources for Poetry in Writing Courses
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Online Resources
- Bernadette Mayer’s Writing Experiments: A list of writing exercises and prompts that are useful in getting started
- Charles Bernstein’s Experiments: An excellent avant-garde list of writing exercises and prompts for poets of all levels
- poets.org: An online, comprehensive resource from the Academy of American Poets
Suggested Reading
- Kim Addonizio and Dorianne Laux, Editors. The Poet’s Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry. W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. 1997.
- Kenneth Koch. Making Your Own Days: The Pleasures of Reading and Writing Poetry. Touchstone, 1998.
- Mary Oliver. A Poetry Handbook: A Prose Guide to Understanding and Writing Poetry. Harcourt Brace & Company, 1994.
- Mary Oliver. Rules for the Dance: A Handbook for Writing and Reading Metrical Verse. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1998.
- Ron Padgett, Editor. Handbook of Poetic Forms. Teachers & Writers Collaborative, 2000.