CHAD DAVIDSON is Associate Professor in Creative Writing and Literature at University of West Georgia, USA. His poetry collections include Consolation Miracle (2003) and The Last Predicta (2008), both from Southern Illinois UP. He is Associate Editor for New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing. His poems have appeared in The Paris Review, Ploughshares and the Virginia Quarterly Review.GREGORY FRASER is Associate Professor in Creative Writing and Literature at University of West Georgia, USA. He is the recipient of a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and his poetry has appeared in journals including The Southern Review, The Paris Review and The Chicago Review. His collections of poetry are Strange Pietà (Texas Tech, UP 2003) and Answering the Ruins (Northwestern UP, 2009).

• Introduction to Writing Poetry: Creative and Critical ApproachesPART I: FOUNDATIONSEstablishing PracticeForm and StructureVoiceStyleSubjectThe Cultures of Poetry WritingFoundational ExercisesPART II: SPECULATIONSExploring PossibilitiesForms and StructuresVoicesStylesSubjectsThe Cultures of Poetry WritingKey Points: Speculations in Poetry WritingSpeculative ExercisesCreative Critical Further ReadingBibliographyIndex.