- Poetry
- I, too, dislike it.
- Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in
- it, after all, a place for the genuine.
Selected Poems
Selected Poems By Other People
- "so you want to be a writer?"
- by Charles Bukowski
- "Poetry" (unedited version)
- by Marianne Moore
- "somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond"
- by E.E. Cummings
- "Against Funerals"
- by Mark Craver
- "Homage to Sharon Stone"
- by Lynn Emanuel
- "Ego"
- by Denise Duhamel
- "Adolescence II"
- by Rita Dove
- "Gorilla At Dallas Zoo Raids Kitchen"
- by Tom Williams
- "To Earthward"
- by Robert Frost
- "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
- by T.S. Eliot
Other Poets and Writers
- H.D.
- E.E. Cummings
- Sylvia Plath
- Anne Sexton
- Robert Burns
- Robert Creeley
- Heather McHugh
- Carolyn Forché
- Virginia Woolf
- Anaïs Nin
- Margaret Atwood
Poetics
- A Brief Guide to Modernism
- "Make It New: Originality and the Younger Poet" by Dana Levin
- "The Politics of Narrative: Why I Am a Poet" by Lynn Emanuel
- "Can Poetry Matter?" by Dana Gioia
- "Tradition and the Individual Talent" by T.S. Eliot
Poetry Online
Literary Journals