A Poet's Craft

A Comprehensive Guide to Making and Sharing Your Poetry

Ranked #91 in Poetry Writing

Praise for Annie Finch’s The Ghost of Meter “Finch offers fresh insights, particularly into the development of free verse in America, and injects into what is often a dry as dust topic a certain intellectual excitement.”
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A Poet's Craft transcends the limitations of current books, combining the best of three types of poetry-writing guides: textbooks for academic use, general guides to writing poetry, and guides to writing in form. Like textbooks, it includes poetry-writing exercises and discussion of classic and contemporary poems as examples, and...
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