Poetic Forms

We occasionally use poetry forms in the calls for submission prompts on the website. Here are a few books we have used that you might want to use to broaden your use of forms.

Lewis Turco The Book of Forms: A Handbook of Poetics

    

 The Teachers & Writers Handbook of Poetic Forms

   

The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms 

  

 Robert Hass, A Little Book on Form: An Exploration into the Formal Imagination of Poetry

   

Patterns of Poetry: An Encyclopedia of Forms by Miller Williams 

 

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