 | The Poetry Home Repair Manual: Practical Advice for Beginning Poets by Ted Kooser
Buy new: $9.86 / Used from: $2.50 Great for beginners and advanced alike! Easy to read, easy to understand, easy to use.
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 | Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation
Buy new: $17.05 / Used from: $11.38 a great collection of some of today's best writers! the imagery here will blow you away!
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 | Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $2.50 You could just go to the website and read these for free but there is something about a book in the hand, eh?
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 | 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $5.46 see above
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 | The Yale Younger Poets Anthology (Yale Series of Younger Poets)
Buy new: $21.00 / Used from: $0.78 You may want to read this backwards ather than start at some poets from a century ago! All of these poets are influential and have won this award for a reason! It is one of the best first book prizes a poet can win!
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 | The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing by Richard Hugo
Buy new: $9.86 / Used from: $2.25 If you don't know this, stop reading, buy, and get busy reading it!
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 | The Jazz Poetry Anthology (A Midland Book)
Buy new: $15.34 / Used from: $3.83 If you love jazz and poetry, then this is the definitive collection!
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 | The Second Set, Vol. 2: The Jazz Poetry Anthology (The Jazz Poetry Anthology , Vol 2)
Buy new: $19.95 / Used from: $3.39 see above
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 | The Teachers and Writers Handbook of Poetic Forms by Edited by Ron Padgett
Buy new: $14.36 / Used from: $8.75 This has taught me so much as both a teacher and a writer but more importantly I am finally getting FORMS!
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 | Rebel Angels: 25 Poets of the New Formalism
Buy used from: $1.50 a good way to dip into the new formalists....highly recommended! Many of the poems I didn't even realize were in form because they were written so well!
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 | A Formal Feeling Comes: Poems in Form by Contemporary Women
Buy new: $25.00 / Used from: $10.85 great not just for the poems themselves but for the explanations by all the poets that delves into creating poems!
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 | The New Bread Loaf Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry
Buy used from: $3.53 I have seen critiques write pretty harshly about this (check out Amazon's reviews) but I feel this is an excellent conference (the best of the bunch except for maybe Tupelo's conference). Well worth picking up a used copy!
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 | Contemporary American Poetry: Behind the Scenes by Ryan G. Van Cleave
Buy new: $51.20 / Used from: $9.99 excellet for exercises and examples and a surprising book to get hold of!
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 | Contemporary American Poetry by A. Poulin
Buy new: $52.71 / Used from: $44.75 I have this but have yet to read it so why is it on the list? I trust A. poulin that much!
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 | Contemporary American Poetry (Penguin Academics) by R. S. Gwynn
Buy new: $36.31 / Used from: $14.95 Someone recommended this as well as he tends to write more formally. A great writer many dont know about for some reason (probably because there are so many nowadays!) but I think this follows along the lines of the above comment.
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 | The Portable Poetry Workshop by Jack Myers
Buy new: $40.95 / Used from: $8.83 what more does an aspiring writer need?
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 | The Curious Case of the Misplaced Modifier: How to Solve the Mysteries of Weak Writing by Bonnie Trenga
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $2.94 This is a great teaching tool, as it is fun and creative, centering each lesson about grammar around a mystery. Fun!
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 | The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry by J.D. McClatchy
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $6.00 Another great anthology to get one's hands on and get into the contemporaries!
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 | A Drifting Boat: Chinese Zen Poetry
Buy new: $17.00 / Used from: $9.14 great collection of poetry by Chinese writers!
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