Projects

Book Recommendations for Poets

  • 50 Contemporary Poets, The Creative Process edited by Alberta T. Turner
  • The Triggering Town by Richard Hugo
  • The Poetry Lesson by Andrei Codrescu
  • Best Words, Best Order by Stephen Dobyns
  • Feeling as a Foreign Language by Alice Fulton
  • Poetic Meter and Poetic Form by Paul Fussel
  • Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Literary Theory, A Very Short Introduction by Jonathan Culler
  • Nine Gates, Entering the Mind of Poetry by Jane Hirshfield
  • Proofs & Theories by Louis Gluck
  • American Originality by Louis Gluck
  • Literature in the Digital Age by Adam Hammond
  • The Language of New Media by Lev Manovich (Advanced)
  • 5 Books About Writing in Forms
  • 3 Anthologies of International Poetry
  • 7 Anthologies of Protest and Resistance Poetry

Book Recommendations for All writers

  • Thinking in Writing by Donald McQuade and Robert Atwan
  • The Forest for the Trees by Betsy Lerner
  • Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
  • Subtext by Charles Baxter
  • Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg
  • Points of View Edited by James Moffett and Kenneth R. McElheny
  • The Writing Life by Annie Dillard
  • The Writer’s Journey by Christopher Vogler
  • The Paris Review Interviews, Vol 1-4 and Women Writers at Work

Ongoing Survey Projects

Top 10 Lists for Poets

Magazines and Journals

  • One Story
  • American Poetry Review
  • Rattle
  • Writer’s Digest

Groups and Organizations to Join

  • The American Writer’s Museum
  • The Academy of American Poets
  • The Poetry Society of America
  • The Science Fiction Poetry Association
  • The Scottish Poetry Library
    (great, innovative organization even if you’re not Scottish!)
  • Your local or state poetry society
  • Start your own poetry reading group!