How to Make Poems: Form & Technique

Introducing general education students as well as English majors to creative writing, Heather Sellers' How to Make Poems: Form and Technique offers an inspiring, lively, and straightforward new book on how to write effective poems.

How to Make Poems is aligned with the pedagogical needs of instructors charged with helping students learn the basic vocabulary and craft elements required to study and write poetry - form and technique. Sellers describes the process in just over 150 pages by using manageable, sequenced modules, ensuring students are writing poems-and experiencing success-right away.

This poetry handbook is written especially for and directly to today's college students, a new generation of learners. The students before us are well-intentioned, socially aware, engaged, and they are expecting-demanding-readings that are whole-heartedly representative in terms of race and gender. They also expect brevity ("tldr") and clarity and resist an overly formal voice and tone.

Thus, How to Make Poems: Form and Technique is designed to reel in students with its clear and casual approach, delicious new poems by global poets, and interesting, accessible, no-fail writing prompts; teachers will find a streamlined yet robust book they can lead with confidence, face-to-face or online.

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How to Make Poems: Form & Technique

Introducing general education students as well as English majors to creative writing, Heather Sellers' How to Make Poems: Form and Technique offers an inspiring, lively, and straightforward new book on how to write effective poems.

How to Make Poems is aligned with the pedagogical needs of instructors charged with helping students learn the basic vocabulary and craft elements required to study and write poetry - form and technique. Sellers describes the process in just over 150 pages by using manageable, sequenced modules, ensuring students are writing poems-and experiencing success-right away.

This poetry handbook is written especially for and directly to today's college students, a new generation of learners. The students before us are well-intentioned, socially aware, engaged, and they are expecting-demanding-readings that are whole-heartedly representative in terms of race and gender. They also expect brevity ("tldr") and clarity and resist an overly formal voice and tone.

Thus, How to Make Poems: Form and Technique is designed to reel in students with its clear and casual approach, delicious new poems by global poets, and interesting, accessible, no-fail writing prompts; teachers will find a streamlined yet robust book they can lead with confidence, face-to-face or online.

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How to Make Poems: Form & Technique

How to Make Poems: Form & Technique

by Heather Sellers
How to Make Poems: Form & Technique

How to Make Poems: Form & Technique

by Heather Sellers

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Introducing general education students as well as English majors to creative writing, Heather Sellers' How to Make Poems: Form and Technique offers an inspiring, lively, and straightforward new book on how to write effective poems.

How to Make Poems is aligned with the pedagogical needs of instructors charged with helping students learn the basic vocabulary and craft elements required to study and write poetry - form and technique. Sellers describes the process in just over 150 pages by using manageable, sequenced modules, ensuring students are writing poems-and experiencing success-right away.

This poetry handbook is written especially for and directly to today's college students, a new generation of learners. The students before us are well-intentioned, socially aware, engaged, and they are expecting-demanding-readings that are whole-heartedly representative in terms of race and gender. They also expect brevity ("tldr") and clarity and resist an overly formal voice and tone.

Thus, How to Make Poems: Form and Technique is designed to reel in students with its clear and casual approach, delicious new poems by global poets, and interesting, accessible, no-fail writing prompts; teachers will find a streamlined yet robust book they can lead with confidence, face-to-face or online.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9798985849288
Publisher: Flip Learning
Publication date: 01/29/2025
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 153
File size: 358 KB

About the Author

About The Author
Heather Sellers, born and raised in Florida, has been teaching at the college level for thirty-four years and is the author of eleven books, most recently How to Make Poems: Form and Technique. Her memoir You Don't Look Like Anyone I Know: a true story of family, face-blindness, and forgiveness (Riverhead), was an O, Oprah book-of-the-month club selection and New York Times Editor's Choice also featured on Good Morning America, Rachel Ray, NPR's All Things Considered, and Dick Gordon's The Story. Her essays appear in Tin House, Parade, Reader's Digest, The Sun, Good Housekeeping, O Magazine, The London Daily Telegraph, Brevity, The New York Times, The Best American Essays, The Pushcart Prize LXII, and the Royal Academy Journal of Medicine.

Table of Contents

PART ONE: Introduction to Poetry

Chapter 1: What is Poetry For?

Chapter 2: Tips for Poetic Success

Chapter 3: Poetic Forms and Poetic Techniques

Chapter 4: Foundational Techniques for Reading and Writing Poetry

PART TWO: Open Forms and Closed Forms

Section One: Open Forms

Chapter 5: The ABC Poem

Chapter 6: The Ode

Chapter 7: The List Poem

Chapter 8: The Apostrophe and the Epistle

Chapter 9: The Elegy

Chapter 10: The Cento

Section Two: Closed Forms

Chapter 11: The Ghazal

Chapter 12: The Villanelle

Chapter 13: The Pantoum

Chapter 14: The Triolet

Chapter 15: The Sonnets

Chapter 16: The Sestina

PART THREE: Poetry in the World

Chapter 17: Building Your Audience

Chapter 18: Revision Versus Editing

Chapter 19: Poetry Communities

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