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Preface: A Few Words to Instructors A Few Things You Should Know About Creative Writing A Few Words About Revision 1 Writing Poetry A Few Things You Should Know about PoetryThe Elements of PoetryThe Short Poem: Three Models Gail White, "My Personal Recollections of Not Being Asked to the Prom" Ruth Stone, "Winter" Rae Armantrout, "Duration"Lines and StanzasMeter and RhythmThe Music of PoetryImages, Symbols and Figurative LanguageDiction, Syntax and the Language of PoetryPoetic Forms Sonnet / Villanelle / Rondeau / Sestina / Haiku / Cinquain / Rondelet / Triolet / Pantoum / Ghazal / Prose PoetryGetting Started Writing PoetryKick-Starts: Beginning Your PoemsAn Anthology of Poems Kim Addonizio, "For You" Elizabeth Alexander, "House Party Sonnet:‘66" Sherman Alexie, "Basketball" Agha Shahid Ali, "Postcard from Kashmir" Todd Boss, "The World Is in Pencil" Ciaran Carson, "Campaign" Lorna Dee Cervantes, "Poem for the Young White Man Who Asked Me How I, an Intelligent, Well-Read Person, Could Believe in the War between Races" Marilyn Chin, "Repulse Bay" Billy Collins, "Nostalgia" Elaine Equi, "A Quiet Poem" Vona Groarke, "Why I Am Not a Nature Poet" Kimiko Hahn, "Yellow Jackets—" Joy Harjo, "Santa Fe" Geoffrey Hill, "September Song" Brenda Hillman, "Shadows in Snow" Major Jackson, "The Giant Swing Ending in a Split" Allison Joseph, "On Being Told I Don’t Speak like a Black Person" June Jordan, "Ghazal at Full Moon" Donald Justice, "Variations for Two Pianos" Jane Kenyon, "The Blue Bowl" Galway Kinnell, "That Silent Evening Yusef Komunyakaa, "A Voice on an Answering Machine" Ted Kooser, "Mourners" Ben Lerner, "We Have Assembled" D. Nurske. "Left Field" Naomi Shihab Nye, "I Feel Sorry for Jesus" Mary Oliver, "Crossing the Swamp" David O’Meara, "The Game" Deborah Paredez, "Bustillo Drive Grocery" Linda Pastan, "November" Bradley Paul, "Short Ends" Molly Peacock, "Instead of Her Own" Patricia Smith, "Listening at the Door" Gary Snyder, "I Went into the Maverick Bar" Gary Soto, "What Is Your Major? James Tate, "Teaching the Ape to Write Poems" Gloria Vando, "new shoes and an old flame" David Wojahn, "The Assassination of John Lennon as Depicted by the Madame Tussaud Wax Museum, Niagara Falls, Ontario, 1987" Matthew Zapruder, "Automated Regret Machine"2 Writing the Short StoryA Few Things You Should Know about the Short-Short StoryThe Elements of FictionThe Short-Short Story: Three Models Isaac Babel, "Crossing the River Zbrucz" Donald Barthelme, "The Baby" Stephanie Vaughn, "We’re on TV in the Universe"Structure and Design Creating CharactersWriting DialogueSetting the SceneDeciding on Point of View, Developing Tone and Style First-Person Point of View / Second-Person Point of View / Third-Person Limited Point of View / Third-Person Omniscient Point of View / Tense / Tone and StyleGetting Started Writing the Short-Short StoryKick-Starts: Beginning Your StoryAn Anthology of Short Stories Lisa Alvarez, "Cielito Lindo" Margaret Atwood, "An Angel" Aimee Bender, "Loser" T.Coraghessan Boyle, "The Hit Man" Ron Carlson, "A Kind of Flying" Raymond Carver, "Popular Mechanics" Dan Chaon, "St. Dismas" John Cheever, "Reunion" Allegra Goodman, "La Vita Nuova" Ursula Hegi, "Doves" Pam Houston, "Symphony" Jamaica Kincaid, "Girl" Lorrie Moore, "How" Joyce Carol Oates, "Wolf’s Head Lake" Ron Rash, "Into the Gorge" Lynne Tillman, "The Recipe" Guadalupe Valdes, "Recuerdo" John Edgar Wideman, "Rock River" Tobias Wolff, "Bible"A Few Words About Getting Your Work Published A Few Words of FarewellGlossaryIndex