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All the fun's in how you say a thing : an explanation of meter and versification

Steele, Timothy.
Athens : Ohio University Press, c1999. 1999

American poetry observed : poets on their work

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1984. 1984

Assembling the lyric self authorship from Troubadour song to Italian poetry book

Holmes, Olivia.
Minneapolis ; London : University of Minnesota Press, c2000. 2000

The body of poetry essays on women, form, and the poetic self

Finch, Annie, 1956-
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2005. 2005

Coming after essays on poetry

Notley, Alice, 1945-
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2005. 2005

Conversations with Stanley Kunitz

Kunitz, Stanley, 1905-2006, author.
Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2013] 2013

Conversations with W. S. Merwin

Merwin, W. S. (William Stanley), 1927-2019 author.
Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2015] 2015

Cooling time : an American poetry vigil

Wright, C. D., 1949-2016.
Port Townsend, Wash. : Copper Canyon Press, c2005. 2005

Counterfeiting Shakespeare evidence, authorship, and John Ford's Funerall elegye

Vickers, Brian.
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002. 2002

Crossing unmarked snow : further views on the writer's vocation

Stafford, William, 1914-1993.
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c1998. 1998

Deadline poet, or, My life as a doggerelist

Trillin, Calvin.
New York, N.Y. : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1994. 1994

The Routledge anthology of poets on poets poetic responses to English poetry from Chaucer to Yeats

London ; New York : Routledge, 1994. 1994

The flexible lyric

Voigt, Ellen Bryant, 1943-
Athens [Ga.] : University of Georgia Press, c1999. 1999

Fooling with words : a celebration of poets and their craft

New York : Morrow, c1999. 1999

Fourteen on form conversations with poets

Baer, William, 1948-
Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2004. 2004

Getting the knack : 20 poetry writing exercises 20

Dunning, Stephen.
Urbana, Ill. : National Council of Teachers of English, c1992. 1992

The house that Jack built the collected lectures of Jack Spicer

Spicer, Jack.
Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press : University Press of New England, c1998. 1998

How to make a living as a poet

Glazner, Gary Mex, 1957-
Brooklyn, NY : Soft Skull Press, 2005. 2005

How to write a poem

Redmond, John, 1967-
Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2006. 2006

I would lie to you if I could : interviews with ten American poets

DeNiord, Chard, 1952- author.
Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2018] 2018

In the palm of your hand : a poet's portable workshop : a lively and illuminating guide for the prac

Kowit, Steve.
Gardiner, Me. : Tilbury House, c1995. 1995

Intention and unintention, or, the hyperconscious in contemporary lyric impulse

Caldwell, Grant, author.
North Melbourne, Victoria : Australian Scholarly Publishing, [2018] 2018

Intimate with Walt : selections from Walt Whitman's conversations with Horace Traubel, 1888-1892

Traubel, Horace, 1858-1919.
Iowa City, Iowa : University of Iowa Press, c2001. 2001

Making a poem : some thoughts about poetry and the people who write it

Williams, Miller.
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2006. 2006

A Martian muse : further essays on identity, politics, and the freedom of poetry

Shepherd, Reginald, 1963-2008.
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2010] 2010

The muse in the machine essays on poetry and the anatomy of the body politic

Hummer, T. R.
Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2006. 2006

Next word, better word : the craft of writing poetry

Dobyns, Stephen, 1941-
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. 2011

The night sky : writings on the poetics of experience

Lauterbach, Ann, 1942-
New York : Viking, 2005. 2005

The ode less travelled : unlocking the poet within

Fry, Stephen, 1957-
New York : Gotham Books, 2006 printing. 2006

Ordinary genius : a guide for the poet within

Addonizio, Kim, 1954-
New York : W.W. Norton, c2009. 2009

Orpheus in the Bronx essays on identity, politics, and the freedom of poetry

Shepherd, Reginald, 1963-2008.
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2007. 2007

The poetics of American song lyrics

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2012. 2012

Poetry slam : the competitive art of performance poetry

San Francisco : Manic D Press, c2000. 2000

A poet's craft : a comprehensive guide to making and sharing your poetry

Finch, Annie, 1956-
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2012. 2012

Pure act : the uncommon life of Robert Lax

McGregor, Michael N., author.
New York : Fordham University Press, 2015. 2015

Risking intensity : reading and writing poetry with high school students

Michaels, Judith, 1944-
Urbana, Ill. : National Council of Teachers of English, c1999. 1999

Roots and recognition : where poetry comes from

McDougall, Jo.
Pittsburg, Kan. : Friends of Timmons Chapel, Pittsburg State University, c1994. 1994

The route as briefed

Tate, James, 1943-2015.
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©1999. 1999

Side/lines a new Canadian poetics

Toronto : Insomniac Press, c2002. 2002

Southbound interviews with southern poets

Suarez, Ernest.
Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c1999. 1999

Take a risk, trust your language, make a poem

Harlow, Michael P.
Christchurch, N.Z. : Christchurch Teachers College, c1985. 1985

Talk poetry poems and interviews with nine American poets

Baker, David, 1954-
Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 2012. 2012

Teaching poetry reading and responding to poetry in the secondary classroom

Naylor, Amanda.
London ; New York : Routledge, 2012. 2012

To be the poet

Kingston, Maxine Hong.
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2002. 2002

Twentieth-century American poetics : poets on the art of poetry

Boston, Mass. : McGraw-Hill, 2004. 2004