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items If you're a poet (beginner to advanced), I hope you take away something you might need from these resources. Each category has 12 resources for each month of the year. See how easy I made it for you?
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12 Free-To-Use Poetry Learning Sites
12 Best Books on Writing Poetry IMO
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12 Publication Tools for Your Poetry
12 Online Tools for Writing Poetry
12 Poetry Podcasts
12 Free-To-Use Poetry Learning Sites
These sites contain dozens of free training courses, creative ideas, and resources to get you started on your poetic journey.
The Poetry in America PBS LearningMedia collection features 12 lessons based on the Season One episodes of the Poetry in America public television series. PBS LearningMedia content is available to teachers and students at no cost, and it's a great re...
“Led by Harvard Professor Elisa New, this free, not-for-credit online Poetry in America series offered through HarvardX surveys nearly 400 years of American poetry. Through video lectures, archival images and texts, expeditions to historic sites, int...
“Led by Harvard Professor Elisa New, this free, not-for-credit online Poetry in America series offered through HarvardX surveys nearly 400 years of American poetry. Through video lectures, archival images and texts, expeditions to historic sites, int...
PBS LearningMedia | Free Resources for Middle- and High-schoolers (and others, I might add).
In this seventh installment of Fiona Veitch Smith's creative writing course, poet Andrew Philip introduces readers to the basics of how to write poems. Andrew has been part of Edinburgh’s Shore Poets since 2002. His poetry volume “Tonguefire” was pub...
Poetry: How to Write Poems | Creative Writing Course
I keep wanting to enroll in this course, because it seems so dynamic and useful. But, I always miss the window. Maybe next year. ModPo (Modern Poetry) is a fast-paced introduction to modern and contemporary U.S. poetry, with an emphasis on experiment...
ModPo 2024
Outside of ModPo (which I already listed), Coursera offers various MOOC (massive open online courses) on poetry. Enjoy selections such as Sharpened Visions: A Poetry Workshop from California Institute of the Arts, Modern American Poetry, offered by t...
Coursera | Top Poetry Courses
Skillshare offers more free video courses including Writing Extraordinary Poems: Create Poetry That Sets You Apart by Nicole Mae; Poetry for Beginners: Write Poems That Have an Impact, by Tasmin Hansmann; and Cameron Conaway's Poetry I: Introduction ...
Skillshare | Poetry Classes Online
This Yale College course, taught on campus twice per week for 50 minutes, was recorded for Open Yale Courses in Spring 2007. Download course materials and enjoy a class at Yale.
Open Yale Courses | Modern Poetry
You could easily spend weeks on this site learning all that Open University offers on poetry. There are 175 courses and articles available to users from beginner to advanced. Note that you do not recieve any recognition for taking these courses, but ...
Open Learning: Poetry
MIT OpenCourseWare offers a lot of poetry courses. You'll have to pick and choose among other literary choices, but they may interest you as well. Massachusetts Institute of Technology provides these courses, materials & teaching resources for fr...
MIT OpenCourseWare | Free Online Course Materials
FutureLearn offers at least ten different poetry courses for free. These courses are provided by Ralston College, University of York, The University of Newcastle Australia, and more.
FutureLearn | Free Online Poetry Courses
This page offers an interactive forum for poets and writers. This course was the first free online poetry workshop, starting in 1995. "Exercises in the Five-Session group represent exercises which, over the years, have produced striking and surprisin...
Albany Poetry Workshop Classroom Writing Exercises
Udemy holds 313 results for “poetry” at its site, but I'm sure a few of those courses and resources are focused more on literature in general. Still, even ten courses might keep you busy for a month. Free!
Udemy | Online Poetry Courses
What fun is this? Poets House offers ten videos where Dave Johnson cajoles watchers into writing a poem in ten minutes. Free for teens to adults.
Poets House | 10*10*10: Free Video Workshops with Dave Johnson
12 Best Books on Writing Poetry IMO
These 12 books keep me writing. Worthy ideas, creative strategies. You may have your own choices, but this is my list. So there.
William Packard died in 2002, ten years after he published this book. Although it may seem a bit outdated with old white man poetry, he brings some highlights to the following:
* Poetic devices and diction
* Verse forms and free verse
* Rhyme and metrics
* Creative vision and revision
* The benefits and problems of workshops and writing classes
* 30 writing challenges to develop form and style and technique
* When to seek publication-and when not to
* What to read while writing
* The life of the poet, including keeping a journal, giving readings, applying for grants, and more.
Packard was an American poet, playwright, teacher, novelist, and the founder and editor of “The New York Quarterly”, a national magazine devoted to the craft of poetry.
* Poetic devices and diction
* Verse forms and free verse
* Rhyme and metrics
* Creative vision and revision
* The benefits and problems of workshops and writing classes
* 30 writing challenges to develop form and style and technique
* When to seek publication-and when not to
* What to read while writing
* The life of the poet, including keeping a journal, giving readings, applying for grants, and more.
Packard was an American poet, playwright, teacher, novelist, and the founder and editor of “The New York Quarterly”, a national magazine devoted to the craft of poetry.
The Art of Poetry Writing: A Guide
I will learn from Robert Pinsky, poet laureate, anytime. This book, for instance, is an anthology, but Pinsky’s headnotes for each of the 80 poems and his brief introductions to each section take a writer’s view of specific works: William Carlos Will...
Singing School: Write & Read Poetry
Robert Pinsky again, where he states in this book, "Poetry is a vocal, which is to say a bodily, art. The medium of poetry is the human body: the column of air inside the chest, shaped into signifying sounds in the larynx and the mouth. In this sense...
He devotes brief, informative chapters to accent and duration, syntax and line, like and unlike sounds, blank and free verse. He cites examples from the work of fifty different poets. This is a foundation book, and I refer to it time and time again.
He devotes brief, informative chapters to accent and duration, syntax and line, like and unlike sounds, blank and free verse. He cites examples from the work of fifty different poets. This is a foundation book, and I refer to it time and time again.
The Sounds of Poetry: A Brief Guide
Wow--I was surprised at the value of this book, especially in hardcover. Glad I have my hardcover edition, which is another one of my foundation books as an introduction to poetry. This book has been a best seller for over fifty years, as it covers t...
Perrines Sound and Sense: Intro to Poetry
Teachers can use this book to explore any facet or era of poetry. Any reader can use it as an entryway into the art of poetry. Each chapter begins with a summary, then goes into detail, provides poetry examples, and ends with classroom activities to ...
Teaching the Art of Poetry
Now this is a poet you probably know. Mary Oliver offers passion and wit as she imparts her expertise from a long, celebrated career as a poet. She walks readers through exactly how she builds a poem, from meter and rhyme, to form and diction, to sou...
A Poetry Handbook
I really don't want to like this book, because Ted Kooser, poet laureate, writes what I don't want to hear. That said, Kooser writes what he has learned through his forty years as a poet, offering advice, yes, but also wisdom and how to hone a poetic...
The Poetry Home Repair Manual for Poets
The first time I purchased this book, it fell into the tub while I was reading and soaking. I had to buy it again, and I would buy it a third time if I had to. The author of several poetry collections, Kim Addonizio provides essays about how to write...
The Poet's Companion: Writing Poetry Guide
If I adored one book by Kim Addonizio, surely another book would double my pleasure, right? I wasn't wrong.
As she provides a number of writing exercises, Addonizio writes, "The creative process is just that, not a means to an end, but an ongoing participation." Called by one editor as an “angel of poetry,” Addonizio provides chapters on gender, addiction,...
As she provides a number of writing exercises, Addonizio writes, "The creative process is just that, not a means to an end, but an ongoing participation." Called by one editor as an “angel of poetry,” Addonizio provides chapters on gender, addiction,...
Ordinary Genius: A Guide for the Poet Within
I have the first red cover edition of this book, so I don't know what has changed between that first edition and this one, which was published two years after his death. I'm enamored with Kowit's wit and his strength as he offers inspired guidance in...
Steve Kowit was an experienced poetry teach for going on three decades, with many awards for his own poetry.
Steve Kowit was an experienced poetry teach for going on three decades, with many awards for his own poetry.
In the Palm of Your Hand: Poet's Workshop
This book, published just this year (2024) is a goldmine of advice on how to go from staring down a pile of poetry to celebrating a book launch.
Katerina Stoykove is the found and senior editor of Accents Publishing, where she has selected, edited, and published more than 100 poetry collections. She also serves as the director of the Kentucky Book Festival, the director for the Center of the ...
Katerina Stoykove is the found and senior editor of Accents Publishing, where she has selected, edited, and published more than 100 poetry collections. She also serves as the director of the Kentucky Book Festival, the director for the Center of the ...
The Poet's Guide to Publishing a Book of Poetry
My paperback version of this book is about as beat up as a book can get. The book offers writing exercises from poets who teach, and that alone is worth the price of admission. I've used the various chapters numerous times for inspiration and learnin...
The Practice of Poetry: Writing Exercises
12 Sites on Poetry Learning/Teaching
Is poetry learning the opposite of machine learning? Hm.
The American Verse Project is a collaborative project between the University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative (HTI) and the University of Michigan Press. The project assembled an electronic archive of volumes of American poetry prior to 1920. T...
American Verse Project | University of Michigan Library Digital Collections
This page is an example of a rabbit hole. I dare you to click a link and return, because one page leads to another. This site is a fabulous resource for teaching as well as for self-learning poetics, poetry, and the spoken word. Grab a canteen, as it...
Poetry | Kennedy Center
The Modern American Poetry Site (MAPSO is a comprehensive learning environment and scholarly forum for the study of modern and contemporary American poetry. Use this site to discover poets, schools of poetry, and to learn how to submit your own origi...
Modern American Poetry
I can't find the words to describe this site concisely, so I'll use their words. “At its inception, the Favorite Poem Project put out an open call for people across the country to share their favorite poems. Eighteen thousand Americans—from ages 5 to...
Favorite Poem Project
Information for students: What’s It Like To Compete? Nervous about reciting? Unsure of where to start? Don’t be—everything you need to help you perform a successful recitation is right here.
Information for teachers: Every year thousands of teachers integrate Poetry Out Loud into their curricula. This section has everything you need to run a successful program in your classroom.
Information for teachers: Every year thousands of teachers integrate Poetry Out Loud into their curricula. This section has everything you need to run a successful program in your classroom.
Poetry Out Loud
The National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) offers this resource for teachers, but it's also an excellent resource for self-learners. Every lesson plan on ReadWriteThink(TM) has been aligned not only to the IRA/ NCTE Standards for the English ...
NCTE also offers a site for teacher poetry resources at https://ncte.org/resources/poetry/
NCTE also offers a site for teacher poetry resources at https://ncte.org/resources/poetry/
Poetry | Read Write Think
According to the site: "Poetry doesn't just live in books - it lives in the sounds that words make. When we read poems out loud we breathe life into them and we can picture them in our imagination. The Children’s Poetry Archive is a place where you c...
“Poetry was spoken out loud a long time before people started to write it down but we didn’t have any way to make recordings of it. This is why we can’t listen to Shakespeare or Wordsworth now, however much we might like to. The Children’s Poetry Arc...
What a joy to listen!
“Poetry was spoken out loud a long time before people started to write it down but we didn’t have any way to make recordings of it. This is why we can’t listen to Shakespeare or Wordsworth now, however much we might like to. The Children’s Poetry Arc...
What a joy to listen!
The Children’s Poetry Archive
On this site, you’ll find a wide selection of poetry lesson plans and activities covering the whole spectrum of key stages, and exploring many themes and forms of poetry. Check out some of the prompts in the climate change section…asking students to ...
Poetryclass Resources: Free lesson plans from The Poetry Society - Poetry Class
PBS (Public Broadcast Systems) offers 397 resources for teachers to teach poetry, or for adults to experience self-learning about poetry. Modules such as "Found Poetry" from the Library of Congress, "Poetry in America", "Elements of Poetry" from Amer...
Poetry | PBS LearningMedia
ThinkCERCA is an award-winning education company that creates K-12 writing software and curriculum to help students become strong critical thinkers. Their poetry resources include slides that contain poetry, images, and thought-provoking questions ab...
Poetry | Think CERCA
The Library of Congress promotes poetry and literature year-round through their online and in-person programs, their honors and prizes, and their ambassadors. Their podcast, "From the Catbird Seat" is an excellent official poetry and literature featu...
Poetry & Literature | Library of Congress
For seventy years, The Poetry Center hs presented and documented the work of outstanding contemporary poets and related artists, creating and preserving original new and historic audio and video recordings while assuring public awareness of and acces...
The Poetry Center | College of Liberal & Creative Arts San Francisco
12 Publication Tools for Your Poetry
This is a difficult subject. So much pain from rejection, so much joy with acceptance!
Yes, do get a subscription to the magazine if you can, as it is a wealth of information about contests, grants, and submissions. Also, you'll learn from other poets, both in the magazine and online, about their creative processes, publications, and a...
Poets & Writers
One-of-a-kind newsletter that provides tons of publishing opportunities. All you need to do is write and submit. Get their news via email, and you'll be glad you did. All free, but if you spend the price of a cup of coffee, you can create a little “h...
newsletter - chill subs
You are every writer/poet/submitter. Learn from this site about reading, writing, publishing, promotions, and teaching writing. Plus, you can submit if you think you are every writer's writer. The coolest part of the site is their database for litera...https://www.everywritersresource.com/literarymagazines/
Take advantage!
Take advantage!
Empowering Writers Since 1999 - EveryWriter
The University of Arizona's Poetry Center offers much, but most of all it offers this resource on how to edit, refine, research, and submit your poetry or other writing. Learn how to choose the platforms right for you to avoid the pain and terror of ...
LibGuides: Publishing Poetry
This project started with a spreadsheet in 2018 and has grown little by little over the years. It now includes "The Big List of Poetry Publishers", Data and Trends, Submission Fee Support Circle (formed in 2021 to help fellow poets submit their books...
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Duotrope is an established, award-winning resource for writers and artists. We help you save time finding publishers or literary agents, so you can focus on creating. Our publication and agent listings are up to date and full of information you won't...
Duotrope: Find publishers & agents. Track submissions. Get published.
The Submission Grinder (or The Grinder for short) is a donation-based tool for writers to search for publications to submit their work. You can view anonymized response time statistics based on other writer's submissions as well as track their submis...youtube.com/watch?v=3WcxXCUtasg
PS – If you can't find a listing for a publisher you'd like to submit to, suggest a new market listing.
PS – If you can't find a listing for a publisher you'd like to submit to, suggest a new market listing.
The Submission Grinder
The Writer’s Database will keep track of all the markets for your writing, and the status of all the manuscripts you’ve sent out to each market. You can easily check on a market’s contact information, rate of pay and estimated response time, guidelin...
The Writer's Database: Market and Submission Tracker
If entering writing contests brings out your paranoid side, lean into Wining Writers to find legitimate writing contests. This site provides resources to learn of a writing contest is a scam, and includes a list of writing contests to avoid. Priceles...
Welcome to Winning Writers
Do you want an agent for your poetry manuscript? You might find one at this site. What started as a hashtag and a Tumblr in 2013 became a hand-edited blog, then–thanks to Mike Chen and Sierra Godfrey Fong–became a site where agents and editors could ...
Manuscript Wish List
Enjoy online conferences, interviews, and classes and events all centered around getting published. The Manuscript Academy, LLC is brought to you by literary agent Jessica Sinsheimer (Context Literary Agency), conference organizer and media professio...
The Manuscript Academy
They say it best: "The official blog of Writer Beware® shines a bright light into the dark corners of the shadow-world of literary scams, schemes, and pitfalls. Also providing advice for writers, industry news, and commentary. Writer Beware® is spons...
Writer Beware
12 Online Tools for Writing Poetry
My favorite tool is the thesaurus. What's yours?
Written by Jonathon Green over 17 years from 1993, it reached the printed page in 2010 in a three-volume set containing nearly 100,000 entries supported by over 400,000 citations from c. AD 1000 to the present day. it is the largest historical dictio...
Green’s Dictionary of Slang
Quickly search through 94,000+ English words to find rhymes for poetry, songwriting and love letters. You can search for end rhymes, last-syllable rhymes, double rhymes, triple rhymes, beginning rhymes, and first-syllable rhymes. Have fun!
Rhymer.com | Online Rhyming Dictionary
This is a platform that allows you to search for keywords, and then filter the results by things like search volume, word count, and relevance score. Although SEO (Search Engine Optimization) experts rely on this platform, poets also can use this too...
But, wait…This program also analyzes the context of your writing, senses when you pause, and opens a box of suggestions for what to write next. You can also search for synonyms or other related words within your writing using the highlight tool, or t...
But, wait…This program also analyzes the context of your writing, senses when you pause, and opens a box of suggestions for what to write next. You can also search for synonyms or other related words within your writing using the highlight tool, or t...
Twinword | Keyword Research Tool
Pretty cool tool. Fine-tune your focus with Omm Writer. This free online poetry tool helps eliminate distractions and offers a soothing soundscape. Omm Writer fills your screen with a soothing background and hypnotic keystroke sounds to help you get ...
OmmWriter
The poetry section at Writer's Digest is a dream for poets. You'll find interviews with poets, a whole stockpile of poetic forms to experiment with, poetry FAQs, prompts, and the famous PAD (Poem A Day) challenges. What's not to like?
Writer's Digest | Write Better Poetry
This is the tool I use to find alternate words for my poetry. It's simple, it's tight, and it's been a life-saver for me. I cannot write a poem without this tool. Seriously.
Thesaurus.com
Sometimes it takes a village, or a hive, or a mind map to get your ideas out of your head and on to paper. This tool is free to use for up to three mind maps, unlimited public diagrams, and more. If you want even more, the price you pay is about the ...
Coggle | Collaborative Mind Maps
Use Canva to create everything you might need for your self-expression, including your own chapbooks and broadsides. The learning curve is definitely there, especially for individuals who haven't used graphic design. But, you'll find a ton of YouTube...
Canva: Visual Suite for Everyone
A website filled with games, exercises, techniques, prompts, text manipulation, text generators (AI before AI), and, of course, poetry. Play away, poet.
Language is a Virus
Yes, this is AI. Get a grip and have fun. No one is stealing your ideas, let alone your poetry here. I've used this tool to learn more about how I innately incorporate the elements and principles of poetry, and this tool also tells me when I'm a bit ...
Poem Analyzer Online: Decode Your Poetry Using Poem Analysis
I haven't finished playing with this site, so please excuse me. Not sure my neurospicy brain can handle the visuals, but I like the concept. Type in a word and see a mind map of that word that leads to synonyms. It's a visual dictionary/thesaurus/int...
Visuwords
We all have our choices of disctionaries, so there's that. But, etymologies? Bigger ones? More detailed? You'll find that here at WordOrigins. If you don't like this site, go to “Resources” to find even more etymological resources and links.
Wordorigins.org
12 Poetry Podcasts
Turn it on, turn it up, and tune in.
They say it better: "The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. Make us a part of your routine as you drink coffee in the morning, as you take a walk in nature, or as you wind down to go to sleep in the evening. With host Major Jackson, we collectivel...
American Public Media | The Slowdown
Kelly Writers House impresario Al Filreis leads lively roundtable discussions of a single poem with a series of rotating guests including Tracie Morris, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, erica kaufman, Charles Bernstein, Sawako Nakayasu, Simone White, and other...
Poetry Foundation: Poem Talk
This is Spotify. Check out this podcast and other poetry offerings at Spotify. Lots!
Spoken Word Poetry Podcast
Another Poetry Foundation podcast, and one of my faves. “Producer Helena de Groot talks to poets about language, dreams, love and loss, identity, connection, anger, discomfort, the creative process, the state of the world and the world of the soul.”
Poetry Foundation: Poetry Off the Shelf
Close Readings is a new multi-series podcast subscription from the London Review of Books. Two contributors explore areas of literature through a selection of key works, providing an introductory grounding like no other. Listen to some episodes for f...youtube.com/playlist?list=PLT6dL0t3N1uwntdebUCvXl_JD7K9J8B0K
London Review of Books | Close Readings
In Episode 1 of the podcast Mark McGuinness introduces the show and explains how to get the most out of it. You can find that commentary on the home page of this link. One of the best podcasts for contextualizing and analyzing classic poetry, IMO.
Home - A Mouthful of Air
Poems as friends, a great concept and an intimate look into poetry and poets. What a wonderful podcast, and the result as they approached their 10th anniversary, they published their first anthology of “Poems as Friends” with Quercus Editions in May ...amazon.com/Poems-As-Friends-Anthology-Anniversary/dp/1529432456
PODCAST | The Poetry Exchange
Andy & Brendan Stermer ask artists and luminaries to read us a favorite poem and share what it means to them. Guests have included rapper Dessa, biblical translator Robert Alter, painter Enrique Martínez Celaya, and photographer Alec Soth, among ...
Interesting People Reading Poetry
The Speakeasy Cafe Open-Mic Poetry Show airs every Thursday at 8 pm east coast time. Hosted by Nyla Alisia, this show offers non-stop poetic entertainment where it is all about poets. “Poets write because they have something to say, come take the mic...
SpeakEasy Cafe - Open Mic Poetry Radio Online Radio by SpeakEasy Cafe
Part interview and part reading, with a prompt-based open mic, it’s a casual way to hangout with Rattle editor Timothy Green and all of our friends in poetry around the world. The Rattlecast livestreams—usually Sundays at 8pm ET / 5pm PT, but if you ...
Rattlecast
Something bad might happen to me if I don't include this podcast. It's a traditional staple amongst poets, I think, because “The New Yorker”’s poetry editor, Kevin Young, is the man when it comes to top-shelf poetry. This podcast is monthly, which is...
The New Yorker Poetry Podcast
I like this podcast because it broadens my horizons outside American poetry. This podcast presents a series of discussions, interviews, and live recordings with poets in the UK and beyond. Now hosted by Peter deGraft-Johnson, LPP was founded in 2014 ...
Lunar Poetry Podcasts
12 MFA Programs for Poets
So you want a degree in poetry. I see. Hint: Creative Writing usually encompasses poetry.
The Program in Poetry and Poetics brings together a diverse community of literary scholars, poets, and translators working on poetry and poetics across a spectrum of regions, historical periods, and theoretical approaches at the University of Chicago...
University of Chicago | Poetry and Poetics Master of Arts Program
The goal of Columbia University School of the Arts is to help students to realize the best version of the poet they know themselves to be. Accordingly, their experience at Columbia culminates with the Thesis Workshop— the most intense delving into th...
Columbia School of the Arts | Poetry
Arizona State University's creative writing program, distinguished by an outstanding faculty whose works have received major national and international recognition, is consistently ranked among top-tier programs in poetry and fiction. Plus, you have ...
Arizona State University | MFA Creative Writing
Indiana University Bloomington's graduate program in Creative Writing is relatively small, currently enrolling fewer than thirty students. They normally accept eight new students each year (four in fiction, four in poetry), and work to recruit a stro...
Indiana University Bloomington | Master of Fine Arts Degree
Bluegrass Writers Studio in Richmond, Kentucky, offers a low-residency MFA in Creative Writing through a quality affordable, and flexible program. Enjoy online workshops, intensive residency workshops, and international literary and cultural experien...
Bluegrass Writers Studio at Eastern Kentucky University
The Creative Writing MFA Program at Boise State is a fully-funded three-year program dedicated to poetry and fiction. Each MFA student receives a full tuition waiver, health insurance, and a Graduate Assistantship to teach one undergraduate fiction o...
Boise State | Creative Writing MFA
Set on the banks of the Black Warrior River in Tuscaloosa, The University of Alabama houses an MFA program in which students can take workshops in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, as well as a wide range of special topics courses. This program is one...
University of Alabama | MFA Creative Writing
The English Department at UAF is the first to have been established in the State of Alaska. They offer an undergraduate major and three minor programs in English, including poetry. They also offer three graduate programs: the MFA in Creative Writing,...
University of Alaska Fairbanks | Department of English
It was my dream to attend this university, but life got in the way. The poetics department at Naropa University was born under the guidance of Anne Waldman, Allen Ginsberg, John Cage, Diane di Prima, and Naropa's founder, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. I ...
Naropa University | Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics
From the site (since I don't know much about this program yet): "MFA students are at home in the Humanities and Sciences Graduate Center on CCA’s main San Francisco campus. Outside the studio, we write and meet alongside redwood trees in our beautifu...
California College of the Arts | Writing
I'll just say a few words: Cyrus Cassells, Roger Jones, Naomi Shihab Nye, Cecily Parks, and Steve Wilson. Ready? Apply!
Texas State University | MFA Creative Writing (Poetry Concentration)
I can't possibly add all the poetry programs in all the colleges and universities across the country, but Poets & Writers can. Check out the database to learn more about writing programs with degrees near you (or as far as possible from home, wha...
MFA Programs Database
12 Courses and Workshops for Poets
These courses are rarely free, so you can cherry-pick your favorite instructors and *sometimes* obtain certificates and/or college credits.
This site is busting at the seams with writing courses, including online courses and self-guided courses. They bring renowned instructors right to your computer, tablet or smartphone. Best of all, they critique your work weekly, which helps you push ...
Writers.com | Online Writing Classes, Learning, and Community
Poets & Writers is pleased to offer courses to help you deepen your writing practice and get published. All classes are offered live online via Zoom and provide ample opportunity for interaction with the instructor and peers. Online classes are n...
Poets & Writers | Workshops & Classes
This class is just one of several that MasterClass offers. Billy Collins, Joy Harjo, Amanda Gorman, Nas, and more. You can gain access to these classes for a base fee, paid annually. It's not a bad price, but make sure you have the time to sit throug...
MasterClass | Billy Collins Teaches Reading and Writing Poetry
Poetry Barn’s mission is to nurture poetry education, inspiration, and appreciation by sponsoring poetry-related workshops, retreats, readings, and a comprehensive poetry lending library accessible to the public. Nestled in the foothills of Catskill ...
The Poetry Barn | Online Poetry Workshops
Button Poetry offers a collection of live online writing courses from Button Poetry authors occurring in 2024 & 2025. All Button University workshops are virtual, generative, and live via Zoom. Recordings provided. Check out their site if you nee...
Button Poetry U | Writing Workshops
The field is slim for poetry here, but take note--you can learn about publishing, marketing, and social media skills for your poetic compositions and publications. Take a look!
Writer's Digest University
This site currently offers 31 courses/classes in poetry, including how to write poems on grief, loss, and recovery, the contemporary sonnet, and poetry revision. Take note of the poets offering the course, learn more from reviews, and take the plunge...
The Best Online Poetry Workshops for Emerging and Established Authors
Roundtable offers various poetry courses including "The Poetry of Bob Dylan: The American Shakespeare" (Timonthy Hampton), "Reading Yeats with Edward Mendelson", and "Robert Pinsky on the Music of Poetry". You know I'm all over that last one. Reasona...
Roundtable by The 92nd Street Y, New York — Live, Online Courses
Only Poems offers workshops online at 12 PM EST / 9 AM PST / 11AM CST / 5 PM BST. Recordings and related materials are provided for anyone who is not able to attend live. There may be a discount with membership, and I know they often run sales/discou...
ONLY POEMS | Upcoming Poetry Workshops
Read, write, edite and translate poetry, in year-long courses, short courses, workshops, one-day sessions, seminars, tutorials and every variety of learning in between – in Poetry School's classrooms, off site and online. Poetry School is a national ...
“Up to a fifth of all our online course students are based outside of the UK, from America and Canada to India, Germany, Singapore, Mexico, Uzbekistan and Australia. And the majority of our online courses are suitable to all levels of poets, employin...
“Up to a fifth of all our online course students are based outside of the UK, from America and Canada to India, Germany, Singapore, Mexico, Uzbekistan and Australia. And the majority of our online courses are suitable to all levels of poets, employin...
Poetry School | Poetry Courses
“The mission of Lighthouse Writers Workshop is to provide the highest caliber of artistic education, support, and community for writers and readers in the Rocky Mountain region and beyond. We strive to ensure that literature remains accessible and re...
Lighthouse Writers Workshop | Poetry Collective
Learn more about the offerings provided by the Loft. They’ve been teaching poetry outside of universities and colleges since 1974. Their face-to-face courses happen in Minneapolis, while their long list of online courses are available to anyone anywh...
The Loft Literary Center
12 Recent U.S. Poet Laureate Consultants in Poetry
Begun in 1937, the present title of Poet Laureate was created and authorized by an Act of Congress in 1985.
Ada Limón, who is of Mexican-American descent, grew up in Sonoma, California. Limón was appointed 24th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry by Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden in 2022 and reappointed for a second, two-year term in 2023.
Ada Limón, 2022 -
Joy Harjo is an American poet, musician, playwright, and author. She served as the 23rd United States Poet Laureate, the first Native American to hold that honor. Harjo has written numerous works in the genres of poetry, books, and plays. Harjo's wor...
Joy Harjo, 2019-2022
Tracy K. Smith is an American poet and educator. She served as the 22nd Poet Laureate of the United States from 2017 to 2019. She has published five collections of poetry, winning the Pulitzer Prize for her 2011 volume "Life on Mars".
Tracy K. Smith, 2017-2019
Juan Felipe Herrera is an American poet, performer, writer, toonist, teacher, and activist. Herrera was the 21st United States Poet Laureate from 2015 to 2017. He is a major figure in the literary field of Chicano poetry.
Juan Felipe Herrera, 2015-2017
Charles Wright from Pickwick Dam, Tennessee, is an American poet. He shared the National Book Award in 1983 for Country Music: Selected Early Poems and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998 for Black Zodiac. From 2014 to 2015, he served as the 20th Poet Lau...
Charles Wright, 2014-2015
Natasha Trethewey from Gulfport, Mississippi, is an American poet who served as the 19th United States Poet Laureate from 2012 to 2014. She won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for her 2006 collection Native Guard, and is a former Poet Laureate of M...
Natasha Trethewey, 2012-2014
Philip Levine (1928 – 2015), from Detroit, was an American poet best known for his poems about working-class Detroit. He taught for more than thirty years in the English department of California State University, Fresno and held teaching positions at...
Philip Levine, 2011-2012
William Stanley Merwin (1927 – 2019) was an American poet who wrote more than fifty books of poetry and prose and produced many works in translation. After winning numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1971 and in 2009, the Libr...
William S. Merwin, 2010-2011
Kay Ryan, from San Jose, California, is an American poet and educator. She has published seven volumes of poetry and an anthology of selected and new poems. From 2008 to 2010 she was the sixteenth United States Poet Laureate. In 2011 she was named a ...
Kay Ryan, 2008-2010
Dušan Simić (1938 – 2023), known as Charles Simic, was a Serbian American poet and co-poetry editor of the "Paris Review". He received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1990 and was a finalist of the Pulitzer Prize in 1986 and in 1987. He was appointe...
Charles Simic, 2007-2008
Donald Andrew Hall Jr. (1928 – 2018) from Hamden, Connecticut, was an American poet, writer, editor, and literary critic. He was the author of over 50 books across several genres from children's literature, biography, memoir, essays, and including 22...
Donald Hall, 2006-1007
Theodore "Ted" J. Kooser is an American poet and author from Ames, Iowa. He won the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 2005. He served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004 to 2006. Kooser was one of the first poets laur...
Ted Kooser, 2004-2006
12 Poetry Organizations to Join
So many poetry organizations, and so little time and money. Pick carefully and put your heart into it.
Launched in 2016, the Poetry Coalition and its founding members present annual programming across the country on themes of social importance, including Poetry & Migration (2017), Poetry & the Body (2017), Poetry & Democracy (2019), Poetry...
Academy of American Poets | Poetry Coalition
The grants program is part of the Foundation's commitment to support the field of poetry and the literary arts more robustly, equitably, and transparently. Established in 2022 when the Poetry Foundation changed from an operating to a non-operating fo...
Poetry Foundation
The National Beat Poetry Foundation, Inc. (NBPF) offers national and international festivals such as the National Beat Poetry Festival, International Beat Poetry Festival, Goddess Festival, Kerouac Cafe, & annual 3 day National Beat Poetry Festiv...
National Beat Poetry Foundation
The Poetry Society of America is the nation’s oldest poetry organization, founded in 1910. Its mission is to place poetry at the crossroads of American life. “The PSA transforms public spaces into sites for imaginative encounters with poems, engages ...
Poetry Society of America
This is a specific niche! The Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association was founded as the Science Fiction Poetry Association in 1978 to bring together poets and readers interested in speculative poetry. Members voted to rename the organizatio...
Science Fiction Poetry Association
“The mission of the APP is to improve the quality of life of people living with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia by facilitating creative expression through poetry. We do not set boundaries in our beliefs in what possible for people with memo...
Alzheimer's Poetry Project
The concept of "Change" in the name 100 Thousand Poets for Change refers to social change, but is otherwise broadly defined and dependent on the definitions of individual organizers or poets. 100TPC events do not necessarily share political or philos...
100 Thousand Poets for Change (Official)
The Haiku Society of America is a non-profit organization composed of haiku poets, editors, critics, publishers and enthusiasts that promotes the composition and appreciation of haiku in English. The HSA web site includes information on how to get in...
Haiku Society of America
They say it better: “PALA is an international academic association for those who work in stylistics, poetics, and associated fields of language and linguistics. Specific interests of PALA members include (in no particular order): narratology, li...
Poets and Linguistics Association
The Poetry Society is a membership organization based in London. Founded in February 1909 as the Poetry Recital Society, it became the Poetry Society in 1912. They publish "The Poetry Review," and they organize several competitions, including the Bri...
The Poetry Society | London
The Poetry Book Society (PBS) was founded in 1953 by T. S. Eliot and friends, including Sir Basil Blackwell, "to propagate the art of poetry". The British Library acquired the Poetry Book Society archive in 1988 and 1996, consisting of organizational...
The Poetry Book Society
There are so many organization nationally and internationally that I can't touch on all of them here. This Wikipedia page contains a plethora of organizations, including those present in every State of the Union.
Wikipedia | Poetry Organizations
12 Lessons on Poetic History
Remember Gilgamesh? Yeah, those cedars and those mushrooms? Oh, there's more!
Materials and research for this Poetry through the Ages exhibit were sourced from a wide range of fascinating books, web resources, and interviews. Learn about the earliest poems, how poems evolved, and where they might be headed.
Introduction : Poetry through the Ages
Quick and easy. Use this page as your foundation source to learn about poetry through the ages.
Very Long Media | Poetry Chronology Overview
This is another quick and easy read on poetry through the ages. Great material for a syllabus, perhaps?
Poetry Through the Ages: A Historical Journey
Fiveable offers a more expanded version of 18th and 19th century literature and adds some comparison between American and British literature. This is an interesting site that offers a wide range of historical literature.
Fiveable | Poetry movements - (18th and 19th Century Literature)
Sasha Blakely and Ellie Green explore literary movements in English literature. Learn the different literary periods in Western literature, review their features, and discover the authors.
Literary Movements Overview & Periods - Lesson
How can I leave Wikipedia in the dust? This link leads to a search on History of Poetry. Scan the list and pick and choose. Wonderful resources, all cited.
History of Poetry - Search results
CJ Casciotta provides a brief (about) 6-minute overview of poetry. Fun.
A (Very) Brief History of Poetry: Digital Poets Episode 2
Apples and Snakes provides a brief (3-minute) history on the spoken word. Check out Spoken Word Archive, a celebration of the artists and the events that make up the Apples and Snakes story, as well as the wider story of the modern spoken word poetry...spokenwordarchive.org.uk
A Short History of Spoken Word Poetry | Spoken Word Archive
A classic and a treat! Listen to Allen Ginsberg on the history of poetry. The Beat Cafe provides this audio, which lasts about one hour and 25 minutes. Sit back and enjoy.
Allen Ginsberg class - The history of poetry - June 1975
BookBaker provides the entire book on "Exploring Literary Movements: From Modernism to Metamodernism. The chapters are listed on the left of the page, and you have access to a worksheet at the end. Brilliant.
Exploring Literary Movements: From Modernism to ...
Free digital access to literature. Most of these are classic writings in novels, short stories, essays, reference, plays, and poetry with digital textbooks, too. Most of these books are Project Gutenberg online books. You can read it on line or downl...
LibGuides: Open Source and Open Access Literature: Poetry
I liked this history of poetry overview, which really doesn't say much, but it's chronological, and it's pretty.
Google Arts & Culture | A Five-Beat History of Poetry
12 Poetry Resources I Missed
And the hits just keep on coming!
How did I forget this submission site? Active ingredients include:
1) up to date submission calls from literary magazines (every week);
2) details on top agents and open indie presses for book authors (every week);
3) where to pitch your nonfiction and get paid for your essays (every week);
4) plenty more insights, interviews, and opportunities for writers (you guessed it).
Sub Club is strictly reader-funded. There are no advertisements or sponsored listings, affiliate links or anything else. “All thoughts or feelings we provide are ours alone unless they’ve upset you in which case they were some other person’s. We don’...
1) up to date submission calls from literary magazines (every week);
2) details on top agents and open indie presses for book authors (every week);
3) where to pitch your nonfiction and get paid for your essays (every week);
4) plenty more insights, interviews, and opportunities for writers (you guessed it).
Sub Club is strictly reader-funded. There are no advertisements or sponsored listings, affiliate links or anything else. “All thoughts or feelings we provide are ours alone unless they’ve upset you in which case they were some other person’s. We don’...
Sub Club | Substack
They send you a list of publishers seeking submissions on the regular. Don't know how I missed this one, either.
Authors Publish Magazine
Teachers & Writers Collaborative (T&W) celebrates the imagination through transformative writing and arts education for youth and lifelong learners. Our programs and publications inspire classroom innovation and create greater equity in and t...
Additionally, T&W hosts the “NY Poetry Out Loud” recitation competition and the “NY Youth Poet Laureate” program for teens in New York State. To support the teaching of creative writing, they also publish “Teachers & Writers Magazine” and an ...
As a funded cohort member of Aroha Philanthropies Seeding Vitality Arts U.S., T&W also partnered with “Visions,” a NYC senior center for vision impaired older adults. Multiple workshop series successfully engaged senior center members in "songwri...
Additionally, T&W hosts the “NY Poetry Out Loud” recitation competition and the “NY Youth Poet Laureate” program for teens in New York State. To support the teaching of creative writing, they also publish “Teachers & Writers Magazine” and an ...
As a funded cohort member of Aroha Philanthropies Seeding Vitality Arts U.S., T&W also partnered with “Visions,” a NYC senior center for vision impaired older adults. Multiple workshop series successfully engaged senior center members in "songwri...
Home - Teachers and Writers Collaborative
Mostly for writers rather than poets, but you can find plenty here to help with marketing, getting noticed, inspiration, and more. Check it out!
Writer's Digest 101 Best Websites for Writers 2024 - Writer's Digest
“Read Poetry is a safe space to explore identity, diversity, and empowerment, providing a familiar but current look into the human experience. It is an online community where we celebrate poetry around the world and encourage readers to discover poet...
Home - Read Poetry
Founded in the early 1970s as a print publication, NewPages provides online news, information, and guides to literary magazines, independent and university publishers, graduate and undergraduate creative writing programs, independent bookstores, alte...
New Pages
How could I forget this old love. I bucked up and joined a poetry group here back in the 20th century, and one of my poems made an “honorabl mention” in one of their contests. I still know people I met during those days. This link leads to all things...
Utne Magazine | Poetry
Use this site to learn how to create a do-it-yourself version of the MFA. Lori states all you need to do is: write with focus, read with purpose, and build your community. Check out the free DIY MFA starter kit and plow on through these fields, you b...
DIY MFA - Home
This link leads to all things poetic at Lit Hub, one of the where craft and criticism, news and culture, and the best of the book world come together. Take in their reading lists and listen to Lit Hub Radio. If you donate, you'll get an ad-free readi...
Literary Hub [Lit Hub] | Poetry
The Poetry Lab is a community learning space for creative writers, dedicated to mentoring and encouraging poets and writers to craft their learning journeys through non-traditional means. They are based in the Greater Los Angeles area, but most of th...
The Poetry Lab
Poetry International was born out of the Poetry International Festival, which has brought the best international poets to appreciative Rotterdam crowds since 1970. The annual festival each June is an important activity, along with the Poetry Archives...
Poetry International
How did I miss the Poetry Review. So lame. This link leads to the archive of interviews from the 1950s through to the 2020s, including Rita Dove, Robert and Louise Glück, Robert Hass, and Truman Capote. A must-have resource to know your literary ance...
Paris Review - Writers, Quotes, Biography, Interviews, Artists