Poetry Tips

Organizations

Poetry Foundation Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.

Poets & Writers supports writers and literature through its magazine, website, and various programs and resources.

Academy of American Poets supporting American poets at all stages of their careers and to foster the appreciation of contemporary poetry.

Poetry Global Network poetry events include Poet's Publishing Cafe and A Book's Dialogue, a poetry book club.

Poetry Super Highway Rick Lupert's poetry site offers contests, open mics, opportunities to share books and poems.

 

Writing Tips

Syllable Counter paste in your text to check reading level or syllables in each line (handy for writing 5-7-5 Haiku).

LitHub - 50 Ways to End a Poem.

2022 ALSCW Conference, Yale University Setting Poems to Music.

Dimitri Reyes  six examples of last word enjambments.

Rebecca Haselton how line breaks shape meaning.

Poet Bernadette Mayer famous poetry prompts and experiments.

Poet Bernadette Mayer's Language pdf of poetry comments, tips, prompts, references.

Trance Poetics Blog focuses on contemporary somatic poetry and poetics, ecolinguistics, pedagogy, and performance.

Contemporary Haibun Online lots of tips for writing English-language haibun, tanka prose, and haiga.

 

Submitting Tips

Cincinnati Review Is Your Poem Ready for Submitting?

Lit Hub Aim for 100 Rejections

Cincinnati Review Making a Submission Spreadsheet

Clifford Garstang 2024 Literary Magazine Ranking for Poetry

Poets & Writers Literary Magazines

 

Word Finders

AZ Rhymes

English Study Online

Rhymer

RhymeZone

WordDB

Word Hippo

Wordfinder

Words that Rhyme