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Poets on Poetry (Academic)

Creeley, Robert. The Collected Essays of Robert Creeley. University of California Press, 1989.

*Dove, Rita.
--Conversations with Rita Dove.
--The Best American Poetry 2000.
--"Letter to the Editor," Poetry June 2004.
--The Poet's World.

*Gluck, Louise.
--Proofs and Theories: Essays on Poetry.
--The Best American Poetry 1993

Negative Capability: Contemporary American Poetry, by Linda Gregerson. University of Michigan, 2001.

Melodies Unheard by Anthony Hecht

Hennessey, Christopher Matthew. Ed. Outside the Lines: Talking with Contemporary Gay Poets. University of Michigan Press, 2005.

Henry, Brian & Zawacki, Andrew. Eds. The Verse Book of Interviews: 27 Poets on Language, Craft, and Culture. Verse Press.

Kinzie, Mary. A Poet's Guide to Poetry.

*Kooser, Ted. The Poetry Home Repair Manual. University of Nebraska Press, 2005.
--The Poetry Home Repair Manual: Practical Advice for Beginning Poets
--Writing Brave and Free: Encouraging Words for People Who Want to Start Writing.
--Riding with Colonel Carter: An Essay & 2 Poems
--Journey to a place of work: A Poet in the World of Business

*Kunitz, Stanley.
--"From feathers to Iron: A Lecture Delivered to the Libary of Congress." (UT Lib)
--Interviews and Encounters with Stanley Kunitz.
--A Kind of Order, a Kind of Folly.
--Next-to-last Things: New Poems and Essays.
--The Wild Braid: A Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garden

The Big Question, by David Lehman.

Levertov, Denise. "An Approach to Public Poetry Listenings." Light Up the Cave. New Directions, 1981.

Don't Ask, by Philip Levine.

*Merwin, W.S.
--Summer Doorways: A Memoir.
--A Conversation with W.S. Merwin.
--W.W. Merwin: A Listener's Guide (CD)
--Unframed Originals.

Mullen, Harryette. "An Interview with Harryette Mullen." Contemporary Literature 41, no. 3 (2000).

Coming After, Essays on Poetry, by Alice Notley.

Oliver, Mary. A Poetry Handbook.

Olson, Alex. "Diary of a Slam Poet." Ms. (Dec/Jan 2000).

Olson, Charles. Human Universe and Other Essays. Grove Press, 1967.

The Metaphysician in the Dark, by Charles Simic.

"Slam Info: Philosophies" by Marc Smith

Wintors, Yvor. "TEh Audible REading of Poetry." Hudson Reivew 4, no. 3 (1951).

Wojahn, Daivd. "A kind of Vaudeville: Appraising the Age of the Poetry Reading." New England Review and Breadloaf Quarterly 8, no 2. (1985).

Zukofsky, Louis. A Test of Poetry. New Ork: C.Z. Pulications, 1980.

Hammer & Blaze: A Gathering of Contemporary Poets

Poets Teaching Poets: Self and the World

Talking Poetry: Conversation in the Workshop with Contemporary Poets. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1987.

Twentieth Century American Poetics: Poets on the Art of Poetry. (53 poets)

Unrelenting Readers: The New Poet-Critic. Story Line Press. 2003.

Written in Water, Written in Stone: Twenty Years of Poets on Poetry, edited by Martin Lammon.