Resources for Poets

Books:

2006 Poet’s Market
Edited by Nancy Breen
Published by Writer’s Digest Books
(includes 1800 places to publish your poems, poetry contests, and more)

The Poetry Home Repair Manual: Practical Advice for Beginning Poets
by Ted Kooser

How to Publish Your Poetry
by Helen Ciaravino

A Poet’s Guide to Poetry
by Kathryn S. Brogan

Finding What You Didn’t Lose: Expressing Your Truth Through Poem-Making
by John Fox

Creating Poetry
by John Drury

The Poet’s Dictionary: A Handbook of Prosody and Poetic Devices
by William Packard

The Haiku Handbook: How to Write, Share, and Teach Haiku
by William Higginson

You Must Revise Your Life: Poets on Poetry
Ed.: William Stafford

The Sound of Poetry: A Brief Guide
by Robert Pinsky

Poemcrazy
by Susan Goldsmith Woolridge

The Shape of Poetry: A Practical Guide to Writing Poetry
by Peter Meinke

Writing Personal Poetry: Creating Poems From Your Life Experiences
by Sheila Bender

Poets’ Tools:

The newest dictionary available (Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary and The American Heritage Dictionary are editors’ favorites.)

Roget’s Super Thesaurus

Magazines for Poets:

Poets & Writers
www.pw.org

Writers’ Digest
www.writersdigest.com
(mostly for prose writers, but often runs articles about poetry)

The Writer
www.writermag.com

Writers’ Journal
www.writersjournal.com

Websites:

www.poeticbyway.com
An excellent guide for the study of poetry; includes a comprehensive glossary of poetic terms

www.streetsaint.com/titles/stoller/haikusample.html
Includes info on Neca Stoller’s book, How To Write Haiku; some info on haiku; a few samples of haiku and senryu

www.poets.org
The American Academy of Poets’ site; includes biographies of famous authors, collected reviews, and articles

www.poems.com
Poetry Daily’s site posts reviews of contemporary poets’ work, as well as the poems.