Projects
- Tag a book of poetry on Amazon
- Talk to teachers about using poetry for student research projects
- 52 Haiku: Zen meditation, drawing and haiku for every week of the year
- The Essay Project: a review of poetry essays
- Collect books of poems and paintings about the place where you live or the place where you’re from. Here is my page of poets and painters dealing with the place of New Mexico.
- Access assistance:
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
- Top 10 Things to Do When Participating in an Open Poetry Reading
- Top 10 Ways Kids Today Can Use Poetry: Halloween Edition
- Top 10 Poetry Forms So Oft Annoying
- Top 10 Reasons Why Poets are Bad Party Guests
- The Top 15 Joys of Physical Books With Which eBooks Cannot Compete
- 10 Benefits of Taking Poetry Classes
- 10 Lessons for Poets as Found in Modern Times
- 14 Pop Songs That Read as Crafty Poems
- 10 Things You Can Sell To Poets That They Might Possibly Buy
- 10 Ways to Be a Better Poetry Reader
- 10 Productive Poetry Workshop Practices
- 10 Things That Aren’t Writing but Will Help Your Poetry
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!