Text Box: Selected Books on Poetry Roy Cook, 101 Famous Poems (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2003) Robin Behn, The Practice of Poetry: Writing Exercises from Poets Who Teach (Harper, 1992) Mary Oliver, A Poetry Handbook (Orlando: Harcourt, 1994) Edward Hirsch, How to Read a Poem (San Diego: Harcourt, 1999) Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet (W.W. Norton, 1993) Mark Strand and Eavan Boland (eds.) The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms (New York: Norton, 2001) Jay Parini, Why Poetry Matters (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008) Robert McDowell, Poetry as Spiritual Practice (New York: Free Press, 2008) Jonathan Bate, The Song of the Earth (Harvard University Press, 2000) John Felstiner, Can Poetry Save the Earth? A Field Guide to Nature Poems (Yale University Press, 2009) William Higginson and Penny Harter, The Haiku Handbook -25th Anniversary Edition: How to Write, Teach, and Appreciate Haiku (New York: Kodansha, 2010) Bill Moyers’ The Language of Life: A Festival of Poets, edited by James Haba (New York: Doubleday, 1995) based on the PBS documentary film; The Language of Life on DVD

Poetry Resources
Text Box: Rumi Poetry Club Text Box: Celebrating Inspirational Words & Perennial Wisdom Text Box: Open Directory Project: List of Poetry Magazines www.dmoz.org/Arts/Literature/Poetry Text Box: Poetry Directories & Societies Text Box: Poetry.org http://poetry.org/ A great source of information on poetry contests, academic programs, conferences, publishers, etc. Text Box: Poetry Today Online www.poetrytodayonline.com Subtitled, “Your source for poets and online poetry,” this is another online directory of all things poetry. Text Box: Poetry Super Highway http://poetrysuperhighway.com/ Text Box: Poetry Chaikhana www.poetry-chaikhana.com “Sacred Poetry from Around the World.” Happy reading! Thanks to Ivan Granger!

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“A poets’ gift?

What else can it be other than a new poem (s)he deposits it with a good mind?”

Rumi in the Masnawi

 
Text Box: Electronic Poetry Center (EPC) http://epc.buffalo.edu/ Text Box: Haiku World http://haikuworld.org Text Box: Academy of American Poets www.poets.org Text Box: The Poetry Society UK www.poetrysociety.org.uk Text Box: UNESCO www.unesco.org United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Text Box: Audiovisual Resources BBC on Poetry www.bbc.co.uk/poetryseason PBS on Literature www.pbs.org/arts/arts_literature Literary Visions (1992) With Fran Dorn, 24 episodes in 6 DVD discs Distributed by Annenberg Media www.learner.org Voices & Visions (1988) 13 renowned American poets, 7 DVD discs Distributed by Annenberg Media Lannan Literary Videos (1988-2002) Featuring major poets and writers of our time www.lannan.org Master Poets Collection DVDs distributed by Monterey Media Inc. www.montereymedia.com Famous Authors Series DVDs distributed by KULTUR www.kultur.com Six Centuries of Verse (1984) 16 episodes (Athena DVD, 2010) Companion Book by Anthony Thwaite Healing Words: Poetry & Medicine DVD; on PBS www.healingwordsproductions.com Bill Moyers’ The Language of Life: A Festival of Poets, edited by James Haba (New York: Doubleday, 1995) based on the PBS documentary film; The Language of Life on DVD Elise Paschen and Rebekah Presson Mosby (eds.) Poetry Speaks Expanded: How Poets Read Their Own Works From Tennyson to Plath, Book with CD (Sourcebooks MediaFusion, 2007). Poetry Hall of Fame Collection (2003). 2 DVD discs 240 minutes, 133 of the world’s famous poems in English; program host William Perry; distributed by www.montererymedic.com. Amazon.com Text Box: Support Your Local Bookstores! Text Box: Poetry Society of America www.poetrysociety.org Text Box: National Federation of State Poetry Societies (USA) www.nfsps.com Including Utah State Poetry Society www.utahpoets.com

“You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.”

John Adams (2nd US President) in a letter to his son, John Quincy

 

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. “

Albert Einstein            The World As I See It
Text Box: Poetry Out Loud: National Recitation Contest www.poetryoutloud.org