My handouts

• Four Levels of Poetry
• Ms Word: Turning off the Caps
• Poetry Portfolio Instructions
• Blank verse / scanning tips
  • My tip sheet
  • Kim McMurtry's blank verse version
  • Scanning and metrical variation
• Sestinas
  • from James Cummins' The Whole Truth
  • Cummins' great essay on sestinas

Resources online (always expanding)

• Journal Links (For the last question):
  • American Heritage Online
  • OED online
• Favorite Poems Project (audio and links)
• Short (very basic) guide to scansion
• Representative Poetry Online
• Poetry Daily
• Shadow Poetry Handbook of Terms
• U Penn. online class (contains glossary)
• Chadwyck-Healey Literature Collections*
• Kalliope Poetics Exercise Library (includes detailed exercises on rhythm & meter)
• Scanning Poetry (online lesson from professors at Southern Oregon University
• Bad Poetry Archive
• Purdue OWL on writing genres
• Modern & Contemporary American Poetry Links
• Some new Funny Poetry Sites and Ezines
  • WebdelSol
  • Unpleasant Event Schedule
  • McSweeney's Sestina Site
  • Poetz.com
• Po-Biz
  • AWP
  • Poets and Writers
  • Foetry.com