Category Poetry Craft Essays
POETRY AS VENN DIAGRAM, A Craft Essay by Jacob Butlett
ALL THE THINGS: WRITING CATALOG POEMS, a Poetry Craft Essay by Erin Murphy
HOW TO WRITE A LOVE POEM, a Poetry Craft Essay by Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo
Writing to the End: Artistic Choices in Apocalyptic Times, a Poetry Craft Essay by Heidi Seaborn
Other Wisdoms: The Divinatory Potential of Poetry, A Poetry Craft Essay by Michele Battiste
Poetry and the Kink: The Inherent Queerness of the Poetic Line, by Matthew W. Baker
There’s No Cheating in Poetry, by Elizabeth Galoozis
On Writing “What Is Left” and How a Poem Remembers and Speaks, a Poetry Craft Essay by Bunkong Tuon
It Started with a List: CRAFTING A HELIX POEM, a Poetry Craft Essay by Eileen Toomey
THE GENEROUS ACT OF PUBLISHING DRAFTS, a Poetry Craft Essay by Abbie Kiefer
METAPHOR AS SEDUCTION, a Craft Essay by Henrietta Goodman
ROOTED IN THE PLACE YOU KNOW, a Craft Essay by Bradley Sides
THE USES OF ANAPHORA in Jason Schneiderman’s Poems “Anger” and “Star Dust” by Adrie Rose
MYSTERY, MISCARRIAGE and MENDING, a Craft Essay by Kelly DuMar
THIRTEEN POTSHOTS AT THE PROSE POEM, a Craft Essay by Mike James
GROWING SEASONS: On Plants and Poetry, a craft essay by Luiza Flynn-Goodlett
HARNESSING WILDNESS: THE PRACTICE OF POETIC LEAPS , a Craft Essay by Kari Ann Ebert
BUILDING BOATS, WRITING POEMS A Craft Essay by James Diaz
THE ELEPHANT OF SILENCE, a poetry craft essay by John Wall Barger
YOU ARE A POET (Even When You Aren’t Writing) A Craft Essay by Mark Danowsky
SHOWING AND TELLING: Seven Ways to Help Your Writing Breathe, A Craft Essay by Billy Dean
WORKING FOR SURPRISE: On Running, Prescriptive Teaching, and the Language of First Drafts A Poetry Craft Essay by Devin Kelly
POETRY AS PRACTICE How Paying Attention Helps Us Improve Our Writing in the Age of Distraction A Craft Essay by Scott Edward Anderson
WRITING THE SUPERHERO POEM, a craft essay by Lynn Levin
DON’T BE A DRONE: Manipulating the Reader Through Pitch and Pace, A Poetry Craft Essay by Grant Clauser
ACROSS THE DIVIDE AND BACK: How Writing Poetry Is Changing My Nonfiction, a craft essay by Vivian Wagner
SOMEONE IS WRITING THE REAL WEST VIRGINIA, a craft essay by Mary Ann Bragg
THE EMPATHY MACHINE, Part Two by Kelly McQuain text version
THE MAN ON THE COUCH AND THE MAN WHO SPEAKS POEMS by J.G. McClure
WHY I WRITE Or, It’s The End of the World as We Know It and I Feel (Sorta) Fine by J.G. McClure
IN PRAISE OF MISTRANSLATIONS by J.G. McClure
LEAVING APPALACHIA: Overlap in Poetic Landscapes by Julia Paganelli
THE POET’S “I”: DISTANCE THROUGH FIRST-PERSON by Katie Rensch
APPROACHING BORDERS by Nathaniel Popkin
CROSSING THE EMOTIONAL LANDSCAPE: ARCHER, BOB’S BURGERS, AND CONTEMPORARY POETRY by J.G. McClure
RETHINKING THE SHITTY FIRST DRAFT by George Dila
THAT DEXTEROUS MARGIN by Michael McFee
THE ART OF DESPAIR by Allison Seay
TO STAY OR TO GO INTO EXILE: Milosz and Szymborska by Niels Hav
IN A SPRAY OF SPARKS: Emotion, Sincerity, and the “Skittery Poem of Our Moment” by J.G. McClure
SAY IT AGAIN, BUT BETTER: RESISTANCE AND REVISION by Devi S. Laskar
THE MISEDUCATION OF THE POET: High School and the Fear of Poetry by J.G. McClure