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Index
How to Use This Book
Introduction to Poetry - Billy Collins
1. Introduce Yourself: Find the Poems Inside
To a Poet, For a Poem - Jennifer Wagner
The Poetry of Imperfection
Freewriting
Freewriting Starts
Finding Your Freewrite’s Shape
Your Turn
2. Color it In: Imagery
Light-Years - Cameron Alexander Lawrence
The Problem with Adjectives
Jiuzhaigou
Living in the Summer Mountains - Yu Hsuan-Chi
Try it Out
3. Stir the Bees: Sound
Tiny Blast - Peter Gizzi
Do You Hear What I Hear?
Play it By Ear
Plagiarizing Moonlight - Kelli Russell Agodon
The Rules About No Rules
Tree - Andrew Hudgins
Course - LW Lindquist
5. Wire the Switch: Aha!
Sailboat - Heather Allen
Dulce et Decorum Est - Wilfred Owen
6. Let it Go: Mystery
Deep Noticing - Brenda Hillman
Live and Let Live
The Worship of Nature - John Greenleaf Whittier
7. A Change for the Better: Revision
from The Circus Animals’ Desertion -William Butler Yeats
The Eight-Letter Word
Revision Strategies
Murphy’s Revision Style Sheet
8. Write the Invitations: Share Your Work
Free Verse - Paul Willis
Readings and Groups
Sonnets from the Portuguese - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Online Opportunities
Public Events and Community Service
Publishing
9. Get Your Exercise
Imagery
My Son’s Legs - Anya Krugovoy Silver
Lemons: A Love Letter - Vandana Khanna
The Snow Man - Wallace Stevens
Permission - Lexanne Leonard
The Timpanist - Graham Hillard
Sound
My Sentence - Dana Levin
The White House - Claude McKay
Gerda in the Garden - Sara Barkat
In the Beginning - Katherine Hoerth
Cave Hill Cemetery - Dave Harrity
Line
Aria for Starlings in the Spring - David Wright
Danse Russe - William Carlos Williams
Doors Among Trees - Jae Newman
What My Father Left Behind - Chris Forhan
My Bare-Chested Husband Wrestles the Patio Umbrella -Susanna Childress
A-Ha!
Constellations - Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum
Lesions - Ellery Akers
The Dark Woods - Matthew Buckley Smith
Late Summer - Jennifer Grotz
Redhead Exiting Train - Brad Fruhauff
Mystery
Canary - Rita Dove
Inventory - Günter Eich
Ramp - Dave Malone
How Is It That the Snow - Robert Haight
Raphael’s Goblet - Nancy Willard
Notes
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