Making Poems

Todd F. Davis is Associate Professor of English at Penn State at Altoona. He is coauthor (with Kenneth Womack) of Formalist Criticism and Reader-Response Theory and coeditor (with Womack) of Reading the Beatles: Cultural Studies, Literary Criticism, and the Fab Four (also published by SUNY Press), Mapping the Ethical Turn: A Reader in Ethics, Culture, and Literary Theory, and The Critical Response to John Irving. He is also the author of a book of poetry, Ripe.

• Learning to Make Poems—An Introduction Red SugarFinding Red SugarJan BeattyMan of the YearStrange Tercets: Merry Men, Iambic Feet, and Poetic TransgressionRobin BeckerKnot Tying Lessons: The Slip KnotThe Knot of the PoemFleda BrownBrother André’s Heart: Montreal, 2003Tenebrae: Living In/Among ShadowsJ. L. Conrad Factory JungleOK for ShipmentJim Daniels Loving the FleshThe Body of PoetryTodd DavisElegy with Fall’s Last FilamentsOn "Elegy with Fall’s Last Filaments"Chris Dombrowski To W. S. MerwinTranslating My Way into a PoemDan Gerber Contemplation with Ledges and MoonWriting into the EveningJeff GundyPinkOn "Pink"Kimiko Hahn LonghouseFrom the Out-ThereWilliam HeyenAwash with blushing textures, your hips, lipped liliesThere Is No AvoidingH. L. Hix DanceShut Up & DanceJohn Hoppenthaler Sonnets for the Amish Girls of Nickel MinesEvery Buggy Has Four Wheels: Making "Sonnets for the Amish Girls of Nickel Mines"Ann Hostetler Double the DigitsMemory and the Problem of What Really HappenedJulia Spicher KasdorfBorges at the Northside RotaryThe Deliberate Transformed by the AccidentalDavid KirbyClown Baby’s SummerThe Natural Birth of Clown Baby, or How I Came to Midwife, Father, and Wet-nurse a Prose Poem SequenceThe Conception of Clown BabyGerry LaFemina Up Late with LoonsMaking PeaceMary Linton PenelopeThe Biography of a PoemShara McCallum RevelationThe Poem Stripped Bare by Her AuthorDinty W. Moore CovetousCoveting Thy Neighbor’s PoemMary Rose O’Reilley The Third WinterThe Wild HorseErin Murphy AnniversaryAnything WorthwhileLee PetersonOrpheus, Gathering the TreesIn the WoodlotGreg Rappleye SundayAn Essay with Two Short Lectures: Revising "Sunday"Keith RatzlaffRepairing the HousThe Poem and I Have a Little ConversationJack RidlComing Out of CalibanAre You Watching?Steven Sherrill Revising My MemoirsCutting Logic Loose from Its TethersDavid ShumateChristopher Street Pier (Summer)Against SolitudeAaron Smith BloodOn "Blood"Lucien StrykHot Pads, Cold PadsOn the Writing of "Hot Pads, Cold Pads"Mary SwanderFishing on the Merrimack, My Father Sees a B-24Prisoner of WarFrom Sunday Supplement to Sonnet Sequence: A Poet’s Gift to HerselfSue Ellen Thompson MythMythmakingNatasha Trethewey At the Farmer’s Market in EugeneIn a Country at WarBrian TurnerThe Weak Already InheritedResponseLee UptonAnniversaryRevisiting the Anniversary: A Ghost StoryG. C. WaldrepBelovedThe Eccentric DisciplineMichael Waters Wesley LeavingLeaving to Find Place in the Making of a PoemPatricia Jabbeh How Flatterers Must Be ShunnedThe Prince’s Almond Trees: "How Flatterers Must Be Shunned"Katharine WhitcombA Lock of Her HairThe Charm by Which I Meant to Bring Her BackRobert Wrigley Contributor’s NotesAcknowledgments