Resources for Writing
- Mentor and Muse: Essays from Poets to Poets
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Mentor and Muse is a collection of essays on poetic craft and traditions. Each essay consider a different element of poetry, revealing the skills and insights gained while writing or reading a specific poem. Each essay also challenges the readers to do the same by closing with a detailed writing exercise. - Next Line, Please: Prompts to Inspire Poets and Writers
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An inspired compilation of his weekly column on the American Scholar website, Next Line, Please makes the case for poetry open to all. Next Line, Please gathers in one place the popular column’s plethora of exercises and prompts that Lehman designed to unlock the imaginations of poets and creative writers. - Poetry Foundation: LearnA cornucopia of resources designed to help explore and learn about poetry.
- The Time Is NowThe Time Is Now offers a weekly writing prompt (we’ll post a poetry prompt on Tuesdays, a fiction prompt on Wednesdays, and a creative nonfiction prompt on Thursdays) to help you stay committed to your writing practice throughout the year. We also offer a selection of books on writing—both the newly published and the classics—that we recommend you check out for inspiration, plus advice and insight on the writing process from the authors profiled in Poets & Writers Magazine.
- The Word Rhythm Dictionary : A Resource for Writers, Rappers, Poets, and Lyricists
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This new kind of dictionary reflects the use of “rhythm rhymes” by rappers, poets, and songwriters of today. Users can look up words to find collections of words that have the same rhythm as the original and are useable in ways that are familiar to us in everything from vers libre poetry to the lyrics and music of Bob Dylan and hip hop groups.
