Helpful Resources for Creative Writing Students

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On Poetry
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Richard Hugo “Collection of lectures and reflections directed toward writing poems” |
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Dorianne Laux and Kim Addonizio “Brief essays on elements of poetry, each followed by writing exercises” |
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Letters to a Young Poet (1929) Rainer Maria Rilke “Advice on writing, love, sex, suffering, and the nature of advice itself” |
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Matthew Zapruder “Explores what poems are and how we can read them” |
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