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• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Preface: A Word of Welcome for Teachers and Students
• Part I: An Introduction to Poetry
• Chapter 1: Why Do We Write Poems?
• Chapter 2: Who Gets to Be a Poet?
• Chapter 3: Where Do Poems Come From?
• Chapter 4: Reading, Writing, and Making Meaning
• Part II: The Elements of Poetry
• Chapter 5: Rhetorical Construction
• Chapter 6: Kairos
• Chapter 7: The Elements of Poetry
• Ambiguity
• Beginnings
• Clarity
• Concision
• Contradiction
• Defamiliarization
• Diction
• Doorways
• Endings
• Exploration
• Gaze
• Image
• Inventory
• Language
• Lines
• Lyric
• Metaphor
• Mood
• Movement
• Music
• Narrative
• Observation and Interpretation
• Originality
• Point of View
• Precision
• Punctuation
• Questioning
• Repetition
• Rhythm
• Showing and Telling
• Speaker
• Structure
• Surprise
• Syntax
• Titles
• Value
• Voice
• Weight
• Part III: Beyond the Elements
• Chapter 8: The Poetry Workshop
• Chapter 9: Revision
• Chapter 10: Proceed with Caution
• Chapter 11: The Importance and Ethics of Imitation
• Chapter 12: Forms (Fixed and Broken, Traditional and Contemporary)
• Chapter 13: Prosody
• Part IV: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetic Modes
• Apostrophe
• To The Mountains Eileen Myles
• To Juan Doe #234 Eduardo C. Corral
• Love Letter Jake Skeets
• Crow Flying Overhead with a Hole in Its Wing Kendra DeColo
• Ars Poetica
• Introduction to Poetry Billy Collins
• Ars Poetica Traci Brimhall
• [Sometimes I Can’t Feel It, What Some Call] Diane Seuss
• No Context in a Duplex Omar Sakr
• Aubade & Nocturne
• Aubade with Bread for the Sparrows Oliver de la Paz
• Aubade Ending with the Death of a Mosquito Tarfia Faizullah
• Nocturne Li-Young Lee
• Nocturne Kiki Petrosino
• Documentary
• Rape Joke Patricia Lockwood
• Split Cathy Linh Che
• A Family History Is Sacred Joshua Jennifer Espinoza
• 38 Layli Long Soldier
• Ekphrasis
• History Lesson Natasha Trethewey
• 1935 Naomi Shihab Nye
• Quinta Del Sordo Monica Youn
• Stutter Evelyn Araluen
• Elegy
• Elegy with lies Bob Hicok
• The Role of Elegy Mary Jo Bang
• Inside My Mother Ali Cobby Eckermann
• The Biting Point Catherine Smith
• Environmental
• Landscape with one of the earthworm’s ten hearts Laura Kasischke
• In Chicano Park David Tomas Martinez
• How to Locate Water on a Desert Island Karen Skolfield
• Rings of Fire Craig Santos Perez
• Found Poems
• One-Star Reviews of the Great Wall of China Aimee Nezhukumatathil
• Cascade Rajiv Mohabir
• Through a Glass Lightly (Cento for Beginners) Kate Fagan
• Elegy Shazea Quraishi
• List Poems
• Things That Didn’t Work Catie Rosemurgy
• Split It Open Just to Count the Pieces Oliver Baez Bendorf
• Glass Jaw Sonnet Gabrielle Calvocoressi
• Love Poems
• The Bus Ride Jenny Johnson
• Mountain Dew Commercial Disguised as a Love Poem Matthew Olzmann
• You Don’t Know What Love Is Kim Addonizio
• When I Tell My Beloved I Miss the Sun, Paige Lewis
• Lyric
• I Have to Go Back to 1994 and Kill a Girl Karyna McGlynn
• Tell Me Again about the Last Time You Saw Her Gary L. McDowell
• Downhearted Ada Limón
• The Return of Music Kazim Ali
• Meditation
• Good Bones Maggie Smith
• Song Tracy K. Smith
• Jet Tony Hoagland
• Redneck Refutation John Kinsella
• Narrative
• Teacher of the Year David Kirby
• Lighter Dorianne Laux
• Dynamite Anders Carlson-Wee
• In Which Christina Imagines That Different Types of Alcohol Are Men and She Is Seeing Them All Chris
• Triple Sonnet for Being a Queer in a Family of Straights Dorothy Chan
• Occasional
• Move-in Janine Joseph
• After Our Daughter’s Autism Diagnosis Kamilah Aisha Moon
• Halloween Sandra Beasley
• Yolanda: A Typhoon Sarah Gambito
• Ode
• Ode to Jay-Z, Ending in the Rattle of a Fiend’s Teeth Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib
• Ode to Buttoning and Unbuttoning My Shirt Ross Gay
• Bipolar II Disorder: Third Evaluation (Ode to the Brain) Eugenia Leigh
• Ode to the First Time I Wore a Dress & My Mother Did Not Flinch torrin a. greathouse
• Persona
• Trumpet Player, 1963 Mark Halliday
• Wonder Woman Dreams of the Amazon Jeannine Hall Gailey
• The Lammergeier Daughter Pascale Petit
• Anna May Wong Blows Out Sixteen Candles Sally Wen Mao
• Portrait
• Lone Star Nick Makoha
• My Mother Talks in Numbers Eileen Chong
• Pol Pot in Paris Adam Aitken
• Self-Portrait as Mae West One-Liner Paisley Rekdal
• Protest
• from Reaching Guantánamo Solmaz Sharif
• The Gun Joke Jamaal May
• Two Guns in the Sky for Daniel Harris Raymond Antrobus
• Animals Hayan Charara
• Appendix A
• Appendix B
• Acknowledgments
• INDEX