Resources for Writers
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Ordinary Genius, Kim Addonizio
Primer for Poets & Readers of Poetry, Gregory Orr
The Poet’s Companion, Kim Addonizio & Dorianne Laux
Finger Exercises for Poets, Dorianne Laux
Next Word, Better Word: The Craft of Writing Poetry, Stephen Dobyns
”The Art of” series from Graywolf Press
A Little Book on Form, Robert Hass
Triggering Town, Richard Hugo
The Gazer Within, Larry Levis
Madness, Rack, and Honey, Mary RuefleBooks that helped through doubt & drought:
Becoming a Writer, Dorothea Brande (pdf here)
Writing Down the Bones, Natalie Goldberg -
I’ve studied with stellar poet-teachers through these organizations (inspiring & rigorous classes, reasonable cost, some offer financial aid):
The Loft Literary Center
The Speakeasy Project
The Poetry Barn
Transformative Language Arts Network
24PearlStreet (Fine Arts Work Center)
The Poetry Society of New York
Hugo House -
Arts Calling w/Jaime Alejandro Cruz
Of Poetry w/Han VanderHart
Commonplace: Conversations with Poets (and Other People)
Eat the Storms w/Damien Donnelly
fiction/non/fiction
Poetry Off the Shelf
The Slowdown
The Invisible College
TK with James ScottInfrequent but always enjoyable:
Lunch Box with Ed & John (Ed Skoog & J. Robert Lennon) -
BaddDD Sonia Sanchez
A Late Style of Fire: Larry Levis, American Poet
Hemingway by Ken Burns -
List to come!
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Bookshop supports local stores—an alternative to Amazon
Only Poems
Heavy Feather Review—where to submit
Trish Hopkinson
Poets & Writers
Poets.org
Poetry Foundation
Writing by Writers—especially archive of readings
Folger Shakespeare Library—it’s not just Shakespeare
Erika Dreifus
Substacks:
Mary Carroll Moore, Your Weekly Writing Exercise
Two Sylvias Press Weekly Muse
"The 20 Best Creative Writing Substacks"—some good stuff here! -
Electroboy: A Memoir of Mania, Andy Behrman
Brain on Fire, Susannah Cahalan
Odes to Lithium, Shira Ehrlichman—this collection gave me the courage to write my book
W-3: A Memoir, Bette Howland
The Loony-Bin Trip, Kate Millet
The Collected Schizophrenias, Esmé Weijun WangAnd this nonfiction read:
The Great Pretender, Susannah Cahalan
Never Stay Where Grief Is Free (excerpt)
Disappear: a transitive verb, fear its object. You
are not the young bodies left among deadfall.
I am not the parents who raise photos like empty
pockets of tears, yet I choke back wonder,
fear what will happen if you abandon your light
to the mourning dove and the swallow.
Grief is a country, its anthem a swallow
of vinegar and fear. Please let me sing you
beyond it borders once more until light
marries water, prison bends truth, hands fall
from hips unread. The night never wonders
what happens when the boulevards empty.
No small wonder, grief: my body empty
of light, thirsty and calling freedom. I swallow
the song of you, sleep where rivers fall.
2 stanzas & envoy of a double sestina
Full poem at Anti-Heroin Chic