The Crafty Poet series is a
favorite resource, and I'm doubly excited about the two books since my work is
included in both. The second in the series, The Crafty Poet II: A Portable Workshop, has just been released by Terrapin Books, and I'm
happy to report that it lives up to the first: helpful craft tips, prompts with
exemplary poems, the "Poet on the Poem" features, and more. Diane
Lockward is a gifted editor with a teacher's eye—in this case, for tips, poems,
and experiential advice that can help poets become better at what they do.
Here are the accomplished poets
and poet-teachers whose company I'm honored to be among—with their poems,
insights, and writing strategies:
Kelli Russell Agodon, Dick
Allen, Nin Andrews, David Barber, Judith Barrington, Ellen
Bass, Mary Bindiger, George Pilgere. Chana
Bloch, Laure-Anne Bosselaar, David Bottoms, Fleda
Brown, Kathryn Stripling Byer, Lauren Camp, Martha
Collins, Mary Cornish, Oliver de la Paz, Carl Dennis, Toi
Derricotte, Natalie Diaz, Camille Dungy, Jill Alexander
Essbaum, Alice B. Fogel, Alice Friman, Karin
Gottshall, Tami Haaland, Barbara Hamby, Ava Level
Haymon, Tom Hennen, David Hernandez, Tony Hoagland, Karla
Huston, Laura Kasischke, Meg Kearney, David Kirby, Lance
Larsen, Sydney Lea, Ada Limon, Timothy Liu, Diane
Lockward, Alessandra Lynch, Davis McCombs, Deborah
Miranda, D. Nurkse, Priscilla Orr, Paisley Rekdal, Susan
Rich, Alberto Rios, Lee Ann Roripaugh, Sheryl St. Germaine, Martha
Silano, Ron Smith, A. E. Stringer, KC Trommer, William
Trowbridge, Lee Upton, Sidney Wade, Charles Harper
Webb, Hilde Weisert, Marjory Wentworth, Terence
Winch, Robert Wrigley, Dean Young, Michael T. Young
Plus, the book includes a host of sample poems by these talented
poets:
Gloria Amescua, Bob
Bradshaw, Constance Brewer, Betsey Cullen, Jessica de
Koninck, Gail Fishman Gerwin, Deborah Gerrish, Patricia L.
Goodman, Jeanie Greensfelder, Susan Gundlach, Barbara G.S.
Hagerty, Tracy Hart, Penny Harter, Karen Paul Holmes, Akua
Lezli Hope, Jenny Hubbard, Jen Karetnick, Tina Kelley, Adele
Kenny, Kim Klugh, Denise Low, Kathy Macdonald, Charlotte
Mandel, Joan Mazza, Jane Miller, Maren Mitchell, Camille Norvaisas, Ellie
O'Leary, Judith Quaempts, Wanda Praisner, Anjela Villarreal Ratliff, Kim
Roberts, Jennifer Saunders, Paula Schulz, Martha
Silano, Linda Simone, Jay Sizemore, Kate Sontag, Carole
Stone, Marilyn L. Taylor, Lisken Van Pelt Dus, Pramila
Ventkateswaren, Angela Vogel, Jeanne Wagner, Jane West, Scott
Wiggerman, Lori Wilson
