New books on writing poetry.
Highlights of Poetry.
Index of poetry.
How to Write Poetry.
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How to write specific forms:
Haibun.
Haiku.
Hay(na)ku.
Rengay.
Tanka.
Concrete.
Ghazal.
Lai.
Pantoum.
Prose poem.
Rondeau.
Rubáiyát.
Sestina.
Skaldic verse.
Sonnet.
Terza rima.
Triolet.
Tritina.
Villanelle.
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Poets:
Adam Zagajewski.
Aleda Shirley.
Anne Carson.
The Beowulf Poet.
Billy Collins.
Billy Collins exercise.
Snorri's Edda.
Carl Dennis.
Charles Atkinson.
Chase Twichell.
Corey Marks.
François Villon
Franz Wright.
Galway Kinnell.
Gary Young.
The Gawain Poet.
Jack Gilbert.
Jane Hirshfield.
Jean Vengua.
J. Zimmerman.
J. Zimmerman (haiku).
Jorie Graham.
Karen Braucher.
Karl Shapiro.
Kay Ryan.
Laureate Poets: Britain;
USA.
Len Anderson.
Les Murray.
Li Young Lee.
Linda Pastan.
Louise Glück.
Nordic Skalds.
Pulitzer Poetry Prize (U.S.A).
Richard Hugo.
Robert Bly.
Sappho.
Sara Teasdale.
Shiki (haiku).
Snorri's Edda.
Stephen Dunn.
Ted Kooser.
W.S. Merwin.
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Billy Collins
Books of Poetry (alphabetical).
Billy Collins exercise.
Time Line.
Books.
Best American Poetry: 2007
(guest editor Heather McHugh) with "The New Today".
Best American Poetry: 2004
(guest editor Lyn Hejinian) with "The Centrifuge".
Best American Poetry: 2003
(guest editor Yusef Komunyakaa) with "Litany".
Best American Poetry: 2001
(guest editor Robert Hass) with
"Snow Day".
Best American Poetry: 2000
(guest editor Rita Dove) with
"Man Listening to Disc".
Best American Poetry: 1999
(guest editor Robert Bly) with "Dharma".
Best American Poetry: 1998
(guest editor John Hollander) with "Lines Composed Over Three Thousand Miles from Tintern Abbey".
Best American Poetry: 1997
(guest editor James Tate) with "Lines Lost Among Trees".
Best American Poetry: 1993
(guest editor Louise Glück) with
"Tuesday, June 4th, 1991".
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The Apple That Astonished Paris (1988). |
Billy Collins' first full-length collection of poetry.
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The Art of Drowning. |
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Questions About Angels . |
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Accessible poems, written in common speech that one might use in conversation, with a willingness to look death in the face. In this, they remind me of the (admittedly more romantic and less funny) poems of Sara Teasdale.
In his introduction to Best American Poetry 2006, Billy Collins specifies some selection criteria, so it's interesting to see to what extent he follows his own criteria. The sarcastic "The Student" reinforces Collins' inclination to disagree with rules:
"My poetry instruction book, which I bought at an outdoor stall along the river, contains many rules about what to avoid and what to follow. More than two people in a poem is a crowd, is one. Mention the clothes you are wearing as you compose, is another. Avoid the word vortex, the word velvety, and the word cicada. ..." |
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Books of Poetry Form.
Alphabetic list of poetry forms and related topics.
Poetry Home.
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