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The Practice of Poetry: Writing Exercises From Poets Who Teach

10 best books like The Practice of Poetry: Writing Exercises From Poets Who Teach (Robin Behn): The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing, A Poetry Handbook, The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry, In the Palm of Your Hand: A Poet's Portable Workshop, The Art of the Poetic Line, 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, Best Words, Best Order: Essays on Poetry, The Art of Recklessness: Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction

The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing
AuthorRichard Hugo
ISBN0393309339
Richard Hugo was that rare phenomenon of American letters—a distinguished poet who was also an inspiring teacher. The Triggering Town is Hugo's now-classic collection of lectures, essays, and reflections, all "directed toward helping with that silly, absurd, maddening, futile, enormously...
A Poetry Handbook
AuthorMary Oliver
ISBN0156724006
A Poetry Handbook is something I wish I had read a lot earlier in my career as a student of literature, to say nothing of the tentative ventures I’ve made into writing poetry since I was young. A lot of people say this book is a good reiteration of things they learned in their college classes, but I sincerely...
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 Art of the Poetic Line
AuthorJames Longenbach
ISBN1555974953
The Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism. Each book will be a brief, witty, and useful exploration of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry by a writer impassioned by a singular craft issue. The Art Of volumes will provide a series of sustained examinations...
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...
Best Words, Best Order: Essays on Poetry
AuthorStephen Dobyns
ISBN1403961476
In this new edition of Best Words, Best Order, Stephen Dobyns further explains the mystery of the poet's work. Through essays on memory and metaphor, pacing, and the intricacies of voice and tone, and thoughtful appreciations of Chekhov, Ritsos, Mandelstam, and Rilke, Dobyns guides readers and writers...
The Art of Recklessness: Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction
AuthorDean Young
ISBN1555975623
In The Art of Recklessness, Dean Young's sprawling and subversive first book of prose on poetry, imagination swerves into primitivism and surrealism and finally toward empathy. How can recklessness guide the poet, the artist, and the reader into art, and how can it excite in us a sort of wild receptivity,...
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,...
The Teachers & Writers Handbook of Poetic Forms
AuthorRon Padgett
ISBN0915924609
I own at least one book of poetic forms and have used several. I've also looked up individual forms online. This handbook edited by Ron Padgett is the best I've seen. I understand there can be problems getting permissions to reprint poems. This publisher worked that out. There is nothing more frustrating...
Real Sofistikashun: Essays on Poetry and Craft
AuthorTony Hoagland
ISBN1555974554
The anticipated first collection of essays by celebrated poet Tony Hoagland, author of What Narcissism Means to Me


Meanness, the very thing that is unforgivable in human social life, in poetry is thrilling and valuable. Why? Because the willingness to be offensive sets free the ruthless...
The Life of Poetry
AuthorMuriel Rukeyser
ISBN0963818333
The Life of Poetry by Muriel Rukeyser is an exploration of poetry-its relationship to the visual and performing arts, its role in our personal lives and in the life of our culture.

Rukeyser begins her exploration by discussing the fear of poetry, a fear she attributes to all imaginative work...
What If?: Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers
AuthorAnne Bernays
ISBN0062720066
What If? is the first handbook for writers based on the idea that specific exercises are one of the most useful and provocative methods for mastering the art of writing fiction. With more than twenty-five years of experience teaching creative writing between them, Anne Bernays and Pamela Painter offer...
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...
Writing Poems
AuthorMichelle Boisseau
ISBN0321094239
This poetry text offers comprehensive coverage of the creative process and the technical aspects of writing poetry. Filled with practical advice for the beginning and more advanced poet, this text enlivens students' understanding of poetry, illustrates poetic principles, and serves as a reliable...
Creating Poetry
AuthorJohn Drury
ISBN1582974632
Poets can't impose their will on the muse. That's why it's so important that you write regularly, keep reworking your drafts, and experiment in your writing. This book will help you by offering advice, inspiration, and hundreds of exercises to get you going--all designed to invoke your muse.

With...
Making Your Own Days: The Pleasures of Reading and Writing Poetry
AuthorKenneth Koch
ISBN0684824388
From one of the most esteemed American poets of the twenty-first century comes a celebration of poetry and an invitation for anyone to experience its beauty and wonder.

Full of fresh and exciting insights, Making Your Own Days illuminates the somewhat mysterious subject of poetry for those...
Room to Write: Daily Invitations to a Writer's Life
AuthorBonni Goldberg
ISBN0874778255
What makes someone a writer? A writer writes, expressing the world through synthesis of mind and magic, sensuality and spirit. With both humor and reverence, Room to Write playfully prevails on us to experience the world through a writer's eyes, and respond to the creative sparks that charge good writing.

In...
The Art of Description: World into Word
AuthorMark Doty
ISBN1555975631
"It sounds like a simple thing, to say what you see," Mark Doty begins. "But try to find words for the shades of a mottled sassafras leaf, or the reflectivity of a bay on an August morning, or the very beginnings of desire stirring in the gaze of someone looking right into your eyes . . ." Doty finds refuge in...
Poetry Matters: Writing a Poem from the Inside Out
AuthorRalph Fletcher
ISBN0380797038
A practical guide to demystify the process of writing poetry, by the bestselling author of A Writer’s Notebook and the ALA Notable Book Fig Pudding.

Poetry matters. At the most important moments, when everyone else is silent, poetry rises to speak.

This book is full of practical...
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