Poems of mine that you can read (to see what kind of approach(es) I take:
| Family Driftwood (1990) |
The Trend (2003) |
The Furthest Point In the Forest (Translation of Miguel Marvilla) |
| Camp Empathy (1995) | The Young Green of the Eyes but A Dark Promise (Translation of Friederike Mayröcker)[ PDF file] | Junk Human (Translation of Friederike Mayröcker) |
| Autumn Molt (1999) | Phallocrypt (2004) |
Exercises:
Other exercises to try:
Poetry:
Absurd Premise Poem (1 pt.)
Bill Knott Sonnet (1 pt.)
Birds (1 pt.)
Catalog/List Poem (1 pt.)
Childhood Memory Poem (1 pt.)
Community Life (1pt.)
Disembodied Voice Poem (1 pt.)
Elegy (1 pt.)
Expressing the Ineffable (1 pt)
Familiar Poem (1 pt.)
Flowers (1 pt.)
Fugue Poem (1 pt.)
Historical Personage, Invoking a (1 pt.)
Love Poem (1 pt.)
Newspaper Poem (1 pt.)
Nocturne (1 pt.)
Object Poem (1 pt.)
Poems about Ancestry (1pt.)
Prayer Poem (1 pt.)
Remembering the Old Poets (1 pt.)
Work Poems (1 pt.)
Writing Between The Lines (2 pts.)
Fiction: [Courting the Art of of Fiction]
Literary Links: (for your browsing pleasure)
webdelsol—a tempting melange of high profile literary magazines throughout the country
online literary arts magazines (via University of Washington)
Literary Links (via Ohio University)
Plagiarist.com—a compendium of privately posted literature
vers libre— a compendium of contemporary and modern English literature from the UK
Poetry 180: A Poem a day for American High Schools (compiled by Billy Collins)