RESOURCES FOR WRITERS
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Craft Books
Ordinary Genius, Kim Addonizio
Primer for Poets & Readers of Poetry, Gregory Orr
The Poet’s Companion, Kim Addonizio & 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 -
Online Classes & Workshops
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 (Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center)
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Podcasts
fiction/non/fiction w/Jaime Alejandro
Of Poetry w/Han Vanderhart
Commonplace: Conversations with Poets (and Other People)
Eat the Storms w/Damien Donnelly
fiction/non/fiction
Of Poetry w/Han Vanderhart
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) -
Documentaries
BaddDD Sonia Sanchez
A Late Style of Fire: Larry Levis, American Poet
Hemingway by Ken Burns -
Useful Websites
Bookshop supports local stores—an alternative to Amazon
read poetry—curated site for readers & writers
Heavy Feather Review—where to submit
Trish Hopkinson
Poets & Writers
Poets.org
Poetry Foundation
Writing by Writers archive of readings
Folger Shakespeare Library—it’s not just Shakespeare! -
Mental Illness—Memoirs, Essays, Poetry
Electroboy: A Memoir of Mania, Andy Behrman
Brain on Fire, Susannah Cahalan
Odes to Lithium, Shira Ehrlichman
A Memoir W-3, Bette Howland
The Loony-Bin Trip, Kate Millet
The Collected Schizophrenias, Esmé Weijun WangAnd this nonfiction read:
The Great Pretender, Susannah Cahalan -
Generous Strangers
Advice & wonders in unexpected places.
Sit Down and Write—Encouragement & first steps. Thanks to CLP Young Writers Club for sharing this resource!