Amorak Huey teaches creative writing at Grand Valley State University, Michigan, USA. He is author of four books of poetry, including Dad Jokes from Late in the Patriarchy (2021). He is co-founding editor of River River Books; he and W. Todd Kaneko also collaborated on the award-winning chapbook Slash/Slash (2021).
W. Todd Kaneko teaches creative writing at Grand Valley State University, Michigan, USA. A Kundiman fellow, he is the author of the poetry books This Is How the Bone Sings (2020) and The Dead Wrestler Elegies, Championship Edition (2023) and co-author with Amorak Huey of the chapbook Slash/Slash (2021).

PREFACE

SECTION 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

SECTION II: The Elements of Poetry
Chapter 5. Rhetorical Construction
Chapter 6. Kairos
Chapter 7. The Elements of Poetry

SECTION 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

SECTION IV: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetic Modes
Apostrophe
Ars Poetica
Aubade & Nocturne
Documentary
Ekphrasis
Elegy
Environmental
Found
List
Love Poem
Lyric
Meditation
Narrative
Occasional
Ode
Persona
Portrait
Protest
Appendix A: 100 Poetry Experiments
Appendix B: Additional Reading
Acknowledgments
Index