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Praise from Poet’s Market: Six Stellar Sources of Poetry Prompts
“Wingbeats: Exercises and Practice in Poetry, edited by Scott Wiggerman and David Meischen, offers an impressive array of prompts from some of America’s preeminent contemporary poets.”
Wingbeats, the Original
58 Teaching Poets — 61 Poetry Writing Exercises
“opens the door wide to our creative selves”
— Gabriele Rico
$19.95 – 324 pages – ISBN: 9780976005193
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Wingbeats II
59 Teaching Poets — 58 Poetry Writing Exercises
$22.95 – 360 pages – ISBN: 9780984039951
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Contributors
Millicent Borges Accardi, Rosa Alcalá, Kazim Ali, Wendy Barker, Ellen Bass, Tara Betts, Alan Birkelbach, Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Catherine Bowman, Susan Briante, Sharon Bridgforth, Nathan Brown, Nickole Brown, Jenny Browne, Regie Cabico, Robin Chapman, Lisa D. Chavez, Ching-In Chen, Alison T. Cimino, Cathryn Cofell, Alfred Corn, Sarah Cortez, Bruce Covey, Barbara Crooker, Oliver de la Paz, Lori Desrosiers, Joanne Diaz, Carol Dorf, Cyra S. Dumitru, Keith Ekiss, Rhina P. Espaillat, Jill Alexander Essbaum, Anna Evans, Blas Falconer, Annie Finch, Gretchen Fletcher, Madelyn Garner, Carmen Giménez Smith, Veronica Golos, Brent Goodman, Barbara Hamby, Carol Hamilton, James Harms, Penny Harter, Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, Kurt Heinzelman, Jane Hilberry, Tony Hoagland, Andrea Hollander, Karla Huston, Elizabeth Jacobson, Tina Jacobson, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Meg Kearney, Christopher Kennedy, David Kirby, Laurie Kutchins, Melissa Kwasny, Christine Dumaine Leche, Ada Limón, Ellaraine Lockie, Diane Lockward, Sheryl Luna, Ed Madden, Pablo Miguel Martínez, Valerie Martínez, Cleopatra Mathis, Farid Matuk, Marty McConnell, Anne McCrady, Robert McDowell, Ray McManus, David Meischen, Tomás Q.Morín, karla k. morton, Harryette Mullen, Patricia Colleen Murphy, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Hoa Nguyen, Alfred Nicol, Naomi Shihab Nye, Angela Alaimo O’Donnell, Katherine Durham Oldmixon, Kathleen Peirce, Georgia A. Popoff, Kevin Prufer, Dean Rader, Victoria Redel, Lee Ann Roripaugh, Natasha Sajé, Jason Schneiderman, Tim Seibles, Patty Seyburn, Ravi Shankar, Shoshauna Shy, Patricia Smith, Jessamyn Johnston Smyth, Bruce Snider, Sandra Soli, Lisa Russ Spaar, Adrienne Su, Marcela Sulak, Cole Swensen, Susan Terris, Michael Theune, Lewis Turco, Sarah Vap, Andrea L. Watson, Afaa Michael Weaver, Rebecca Wee, William Wenthe, Scott Wiggerman, Abe Louise Young, Matthew Zapruder.
Praise for Wingbeats I
“a manual to power-lift off the bookshelf”
— The Coachella Review
Wingbeats is a fabulous toolbox of innovative and practical ideas that literally every teacher of poetry workshops and at every level, from elementary poets-in-the-schools through the graduate MFA, will find indispensable. Covering a vast range from image to sound to form, the exercises are all concrete and clearly presented—a marvelous way to mine the imaginations and experiences of today’s most dynamic poets. Invaluable!
— Cole Swensen, author of Gravesend, Ours, The Glass Age . . .
I opened Wingbeats—and fell in headfirst, caught in the feathers of the creative impulse. Wingbeats proves that poetry matters, that writing is an experimental discovery process, that there are many avenues to success, that writing poems is a gift we can all claim. The wealth of enabling nudges by the poets of Wingbeats—who share their energy, wisdom, and examples—opens the door wide to our creative Selves. No teacher, no aspiring poet, should be without the gentle guidance of this book.
— Gabriele Rico, author of Writing the Natural Way