Poet’s Market “Where and how to publish your poetry.” 070.5 POET (2015), R 070.5 POET (2016)

Poetry: The Craft of Writing by Mark Mussari J 808.1 MUSS (2011)

Picture Yourself Writing Poetry: Using Photos to Inspire Writing by Laura Purdie Salas J 808.1 SALA (2012)

How to Write Poetry by Paul B. Janeczko J 808.1 JANE (1999)

The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Writing Poetry by Nikki Moustaki 808 MOUS (2001)

Selected Kentucky Poetry

Poets Laureate of Kentucky by Betty J. Sparks 811 SPAR

New Collected Poems by Wendell Berry 811 BERR

Kentucky Is My Land by Jesse Stuart 811.5 STUA

The Brier Poems by Jim Wayne Miller 811 MILL

Appalachian Elegy: Poetry and Place by Bell Hooks 811 HOOK

What Comes Down to Us: 25 Contemporary Ken-tucky Poets edited by Jeff Worley 811 WHAT

When Winter Come: The Ascension of York by Frank X. Walker 811 WALK

Man with a Bull-Tongue Plow by Jesse Stuart 811.52 STUA

Now and Then: Poems, 1976-1978 by Robert Penn Warren 811.52 WARR

Many-Storied House by George Ella Lyon 811 LYON

The Common Man by Maurice Manning 811 MANN

Buffalo Dance: The Journey of York by Frank X. Walker 811 WALK

Sources on the Web

teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/poetry Designed for teachers and students. Get lessons from well-known poets, or use the Poetry Idea Engine to create your own poems in one of four styles—limerick, haiku, cinquain, or free verse!

www.favoritepoem.org The official website of the Favorite Poem Project, be-gun by former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky; en-courages all Americans to read, record, and discuss their favorite poems.

www.poetry.com Submit original poetry for others to review. Earn points and badges to become a “Master” in each of several categories.

www.poets.org From the Academy of American Poets; offers hundreds of essays and interviews, audio clips, and biographies of more than 500 poets and over 2,000 poems.

www.poetryfoundation.org Publishes Poetry magazine and is “committed to a vig-orous presence for poetry in our culture.”

You can also check our poems and poetry selections in our Kentucky Unbound e-book collection.

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Anthologies/Collections

She Walks in Beauty: A Woman’s Journey Through Poems selected by Carolyn Kennedy 808.81 SHE

All The Odes by Pablo Neruda 861 NERU

Love & Misadventure by Lang Leav 821.92 LEAV

Tour America: A Journey Through Poems and Art by Diane Siebert 811.54 SIEB

The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry (2011) edited and introduction by Rita Dove 811 PENG

The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contempo-rary Poetry Vol. 1–2 edited by Jahan Ramazani, et. al. 821.008 NORT

The Poetry Anthology, 1912–2002: Ninety Years of America's Most Distinguished Verse Magazine edited by Joseph Parisi, et. al. 811 POET

100 Great Poems of the Twentieth Century edited by Mark Strand 821.9108 ONE

The 20th Century in Poetry edited by Michael Hulse, Simon Rae 808.80 TWEN

The Poems of Marianne Moore by Marianne Moore 811 MOOR

New Selected Poems and Translations by Ezra Pound 811 POUN

Anthology for the Earth compiled by Judy Allen 808.8 ALLE

Poetry Standards Fifteen Poets: Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton, Dryden, Pope, Cowper, Coleridge, Words-worth, Shelley, Byron, Keats, Browning, Tenny-son, Arnold 821.082 FIFT

Paradise Lost by John Milton, edited by Barbara Lewalski 821.4 MILT

Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 821.8 BROW

The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats edited by Richard J. Finneran 821 YEAT

Leaves of Grass and Selected Prose by Walt Whitman 811.3 WHIT

The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe J 811.3 POE

Collected Sonnets of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Edna St. Vincent Millay 811 MILL

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Selected Poems selected by Anthony Thwaite 811 LONG

The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot 821 ELIO

Sonnets and Other Poems by William Shakespeare 821.3 SHAK

The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou by Maya Angelou 811 ANGE

John Keats, The Complete Poems by John Keats 811 KEATS

Selected Poems by E. E. Cummings 811 CUMM

John Brown’s Body by Stephen Vincent Benét 811 BENE

Did you know BCPL holds an annual poetry contest? Check out the winners: 811 POET

Fantastic Poetry for All Ages

For Children and Teens

Mirror Mirror: A Book of Reversible Verse by Marilyn Singer J 811 SING

Moon Whales and Other Moon Poems by Ted Hughes J 821.914 HUGH

The Paper Doorway: Funny Verse and Nothing Worse by Dean Koontz J 811.54 KOON

Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein 811.54 SILV, CD J Book SILV

The Spoken Word Revolution: Slam, Hip Hop & the Poetry of a New Generation edited by Mark Eleveld J 811 SPOK

Beastly Verse by JooHee Yoon J 808.81 BEAS

The Death of the Hat: A Brief History of Poetry in 50 Objects compiled by Paul B. Janeczko J 808.81 DEAT

Flutter & Hum: Animal Poems = Aleteo y Zumbi-do: Poemas de Animales by Julie Paschkis J 811 PASC

Cornucopia: Poems by Bridget Renshaw J 811.6 RENS

Feeding the Flying Fanellis: And Other Poems from a Circus Chef by Kate Hosford J 811 HOSF

One Today by Richard Blanco E BLAN

Bigfoot Is Missing! by J. Patrick Lewis J 811.54 LEWI