Resources for Poets

Here are some craft essays I’ve found useful for my poetry practice, as well as some links to other poetry/publishing-related resources.

Essays on Craft

Line Breaks

Learning the Poetic Line by Rebecca Hazelton, Poetry Foundation

Making (and Breaking) a Poem, Ploughshares blog

Syntax

Muscularity and Eros: On Syntax by Carl Phillips, At Length Mag

Landing a Poem

Trapdoors & Lit Fuses: How We End Our Poems, The Cincinnati Review blog

Titles

On Titling Poems, The Cincinnati Review blog

Form

Carl Phillips on the bivalve poem, FSG Work in Progress

Poetry Community & Reflections on Writing

T. De Los Reyes’s Poet’s Field Notes on Substack

Assembling Manuscripts

Alina Štefănescu’s Crib Sheet on Assembling a Poetry Collection

Kris Bigalk’s Substack post How to Order and Organize a Poetry Collection Manuscript

Where to Submit Poetry Manuscripts

Emily Stoddard’s Poetry Bulletin on Substack

General Publishing Advice

“Letters From the Editor” Substack by Kris Bigalk, Executive Editor of Trio House Press