Research Guides @ Fordham: Poetry: Form & Craft

Suggested Search Terms

Find resources on the practice and craft of poetry writing by using terms such as:

Poetry authorship
Poetics
Poets interviews
Poetry collaboration
Literary form
Creation
Creative writing
Creative ability
Poetry criticism

Selected Books

Catching the Light by Joy Harjo
Call Number: (RH) PS3558.A62423 Z46 2022
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022.
How to Be a Poet by Jo Bell and Jane Commane
Rugby, United Kingdom : Nine Arches Press, 2017.
Electronic resource; authentication is required.
The Rag-Picker's Guide to Poetry: Poems, Poets, Process by Eleanor Wilner and Maurice Manning
Call Number: (RH) PN1059.A9 R34 2013
Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, 2013.
A Poet's Guide to Poetry by Mary Kinzie
Call Number: (RH) PN1059.A9 K56 2013
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2013.
How Poems Get Made by James Longenbach
Call Number: (RH) PN1059.A9 L66 2018
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2018.

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