Poetry

Amorak Huey teaches creative writing at Grand Valley State University, Michigan, USA. He is author of four books of poetry, including Dad Jokes from Late in the Patriarchy (2021). He is co-founding editor of River River Books; he and W. Todd Kaneko also collaborated on the award-winning chapbook Slash/Slash (2021). W. Todd Kaneko teaches creative writing at Grand Valley State University, Michigan, USA. A Kundiman fellow, he is the author of the poetry books This Is How the Bone Sings (2020) and The Dead Wrestler Elegies, Championship Edition (2023) and co-author with Amorak Huey of the chapbook Slash/Slash (2021).

(Praise for the first edition)With Poetry: A Writers’ Guide and Anthology, it is as if Huey and Kaneko have been looking over my shoulder at my class notes and have built a streamlined textbook specifically to meet my needs. Collected in one volume are chapters of practical advice and explanation about poetic elements (including a periodic table!), along with an amazing, truly up-to-date anthology of example poems. Most appropriate for students new to poetry, this book will serve as a solid review text for more advanced students as well.

• PREFACESECTION I: An Introduction to PoetryChapter 1. Why Do We Write Poems?Chapter 2. Who Gets to Be a Poet?Chapter 3. Where Do Poems Come From?Chapter 4. Reading, Writing, and Making MeaningSECTION II: The Elements of PoetryChapter 5. Rhetorical ConstructionChapter 6. KairosChapter 7. The Elements of PoetrySECTION III: Beyond the ElementsChapter 8: The Poetry WorkshopChapter 9: RevisionChapter 10: Proceed with CautionChapter 11: The Importance and Ethics of ImitationChapter 12: Forms (Fixed and Broken, Traditional and Contemporary)Chapter 13: ProsodySECTION IV: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetic ModesApostropheArs PoeticaAubade & NocturneDocumentaryEkphrasisElegyEnvironmental FoundListLove PoemLyricMeditationNarrativeOccasionalOdePersonaPortraitProtestAppendix A: 100 Poetry ExperimentsAppendix B: Additional ReadingAcknowledgmentsIndex