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10 best books like Creating Poetry (John Drury): How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry, The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry, In the Palm of Your Hand: A Poet's Portable Workshop, The Practice of Poetry: Writing Exercises From Poets Who Teach, The Poetry Home Repair Manual: Practical Advice for Beginning Poets, The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms, Poetic Meter and Poetic Form, Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry, Poemcrazy: Freeing Your Life with Words, How to Write a Damn Good Novel: A Step-by-Step No Nonsense Guide to Dramatic Storytelling

How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry
AuthorEdward Hirsch
ISBN0156005662
How to Read a Poem is an unprecedented exploration of poetry and feeling. In language at once acute and emotional, distinguished poet and critic Edward Hirsch describes why poetry matters and how we can open up our imaginations so that its message can make a difference. In a marvelous reading of verse...
The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry
AuthorKim Addonizio
ISBN0393316548
The Poet's Companion presents brief essays on the elements of poetry, technique, and suggested subjects for writing, each followed by distinctive writing exercises. The ups and downs of writing life—including self-doubt and writer's block—are here, along with tips about getting published...
In the Palm of Your Hand: A Poet's Portable Workshop
AuthorSteve Kowit
ISBN0884481492
Ideal for teachers who have been searching for a way to inspire students with a love for writing--and reading--contemporary poetry.


It is a book about shaping your memories and passions, your pleasures, obsessions, dreams, secrets, and sorrows into the poems you have always wanted...
The Practice of Poetry: Writing Exercises From Poets Who Teach
AuthorRobin Behn
Part of me wants to hate on writing-by-formula, but I like this book a lot and was interested in a lot of the exercises. It's a good read on its own, even if you don't intend to use any of the prompts. After each prompt, the author explains why s/he finds these particular constraints valuable. I liked Agha...
The Poetry Home Repair Manual: Practical Advice for Beginning Poets
AuthorTed Kooser
ISBN0803259786
Ted Kooser has been writing and publishing poetry for more than forty years. In the pages of The Poetry Home Repair Manual, Kooser brings those decades of experience to bear. Here are tools and insights, the instructions (and warnings against instructions) that poets—aspiring or practicing—can...
The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms
AuthorMark Strand
ISBN0393321789
Poetry's Ingredients: Mark Strand and Eavan Boland Explore Form

Explaining beauty is hard work. But distinguished poets Mark Strand and Eavan Boland have produced a clear, super-helpful book that unravels part of the mystery of great poems through an engaging exploration of poetic structure....
Poetic Meter and Poetic Form
AuthorPaul Fussell
ISBN0075536064
Paperback: 190 pages
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages; Revised edition (January 1, 1979)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0075536064
ISBN-13: 978-0075536062
Product Dimensions: 0.5 x 5.3 x 8.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping...
Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry
AuthorJane Hirshfield
ISBN0060929480
A Gate Enables passage between what is inside and what is outside, and the connection poetry forges between inner and outer lives is the fundamental theme of these nine essays.

Nine Gates begins with a close examination of the roots of poetic craft in "the mind of concentration" and concludes...
Poemcrazy: Freeing Your Life with Words
AuthorSusan Goldsmith Wooldridge
ISBN0609800981
If you are new to poetry and would like to start writing your own poems for fun, but are not sure how to start, this book is for you. This is a great, unintimidating book for all ages. And a great introduction for those who might not have much interest in poetry, in general, because the author has included short,...
How to Write a Damn Good Novel: A Step-by-Step No Nonsense Guide to Dramatic Storytelling
AuthorJames N. Frey
ISBN0312010443
Written in a clear, crisp, accessible style, this book is perfect for beginners as well as professional writers who need a crash course in the down-to-earth basics of storytelling. Talent and inspiration can't be taught, but Frey does provide scores of helpful suggestions and sensible rules and principles.

An...
Writing Is My Drink: A Writer's Story of Finding Her Voice (and a Guide to How You Can Too)
AuthorTheo Pauline Nestor
ISBN1451665091
"Theo Nestor is a writer who, I am positive, will be heard from," wrote Pulitzer Prize-winning author Frank McCourt, and hear from her we do in this enthralling memoir that doubles as a witty and richly told writing guide. Yet the real promise in Writing Is My Drink lies in Nestor's uncanny ability as a...
Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetry
AuthorDavid Mason
ISBN0072819596
WESTERN WIND is an introduction to the elements of craft that make poetry sing, a superior anthology of classic and contemporary poetry, and a guide for students to poetics, writing about poetry, and critical theory. In this text, two well respected poets bring their love of the craft of poetry into...
The New Book of Forms: A Handbook of Poetics
AuthorLewis Turco
ISBN0874513812
The New Book of Forms contains over three hundred verse forms, each succinctly described in prose and, where necessary, with a schematic diagram. Many entries are followed by examples drawn from modern English poems that use the form and by references to well-known poems written in it. Each entry ends...
Rhyme's Reason: A Guide to English Verse
AuthorJohn Hollander
ISBN0300088329
This book is chock full of great information about poetry. It talks about poetic devices, different forms and styles of poetry, and different sorts of feet, and all sorts of useful and relevant information. The problem is, this book is not organized at all, and the explanations are all given in the forms...
Poetry for Dummies
AuthorThe Poetry Center
ISBN0764552724
Sometimes it seems like there are as many definitions of poetry as there are poems. Coleridge defined poetry as "the best words in the best order." St. Augustine called it "the Devil's wine." For Shelley, poetry was "the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds." But no matter...
The Redress of Poetry
AuthorSeamus Heaney
ISBN0374248532
This might seem an odd choice: a collection of lectures about poetry, some of them to an Oxford audience. Sounds stuffy as can be - but it isn't. Wherever they were first heard, each lecture was written to be understood by anyone, and send them back to the works they cover.

The best piece, and perhaps...
Dynamic Characters: How to Create Personalities That Keep Readers Captivated
AuthorNancy Kress
ISBN1582973199
A truly unforgettable story is defined by its characters. Their motivations, their changes, their actions compel us to read on, anxiously trying to discern what will happen next.

In Dynamic Characters, award-winning author and Writer's Digest columnist Nancy Kress explores the fundamental...
Harvest Poems: 1910-1960
AuthorCarl Sandburg
ISBN0156391252
Can four dollars buy you happiness?

Yes. Yes, it can.

Four dollars bought me this book, and this book brought me happiness. So, $4.00=Happiness.

And, in case you think I'm a cheap date, I've a list of references that will tell you otherwise.

But, I can't speak of dating...
Haiku Handbook: How to Write, Share, and Teach Haiku
AuthorWilliam J. Higginson
ISBN4770014309
"The Haiku Handbook" is the first book to give the reader everything needed to begin writing or teaching haiku. It presents haiku poets writing in English, Spanish, French, German, and five other languages on an equal footing with Japanese poets. Not only are the four great Japanese masters of the haiku...
Kinky
AuthorDenise Duhamel
ISBN0914061615
I'd buy this book just for the cover, but the poems are even twice as wonderful. Denise Duhamel has apparently obsessed for months about the Barbie doll phenomenon: all the poems have to do with the "what if " of Barbie attempting to fit into the real world. For example, what if Barbie were codependent?...
The Complete Rhyming Dictionary
AuthorClement Wood
ISBN0440212057
A toast, to The Complete Rhyming Dictionary...for all the years that I was to broke to afford the internet, hence, online rhyming sites. For a poet, or a musician...mostly a musician,, because "roses are red, violets are blue..." type poems aren't too popular these days, a rhyming dictionary can be...
Imagine the Angels of Bread: Poems
AuthorMartín Espada
ISBN0393316866
Combining the personal with the political in his fifth collection, Martín Espada celebrates the bread of the imagination, the bread of the table, and the bread of justice. The heart of the collection is a series of autobiographical poems recalling family, school, neighborhood, and work experiences-from...
Fiction Writer's Workshop
AuthorJosip Novakovich
ISBN1884910394
This book exemplifies the best of a writing workshop: thought-provoking instruction, a charismatic teacher and illuminating examples from classic and contemporary literary masters.
Each chapter explores a different aspect of the art of fiction and ends with a series of writing exercises...
Grant Writing For Dummies
AuthorBeverly A. Browning
ISBN0764584162
Are you writing a grant application for the first time? Maybe you're a veteran fundraiser looking to sharpen your grant writing skills. No matter how experienced you are at writing requests for money, people and organizations are not going to support you just because you're in need. Grant Writing for...
The Weekend Novelist
AuthorRobert J. Ray
ISBN0823084507
Who doesn't dream of writing a novel while holding on to their day job? Robert J. Ray and co-author Bret Norris can help readers do just that, with this practical and accessible step-by-step guide to completing a novel in just a year's worth of weekends.

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