POEMS ABOUT POETRY
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Ars Poetica

Archibald MacLeish

As for Poets

Gary Snyder

Because You Asked about the Line
between Poetry and Prose

Howard Nemerov

Beep Beep Poem (The)

Nikki Giovanni

Beware:  Do Not Read This Poem

Ishmael Reed

Bribe (The)

Pat Mora

Catch a Little Rhyme

Eve Merriam

Cinquains:  A Series of Five

Lois E. Huffman

A Definition

Peter Nicholson

Eating Poetry

Mark Strand

Evaluation of an Unwritten Poem

Siwlawa Szymborska

Five Tips on Writing a Poem

Jane Yolen

For Poets

Al Young

How Poetry Comes to Me

Gary Snyder

How to Eat a Poem

Eve Merriam

I Leave Bits of Me Everywhere

Karen Swank-Fitch

I Love the Look of Words

Maya Angelou

I Loved My Way into Language

Sigmund A. Boloz

I Stop Writing the Poem

Tess Gallagher

Jesse James Joyce

Eddie Gibbons

The Joy of Writing

Wislawa Szymborska

kidnap poem

Nikki Giovanni

Loaf of Poetry (A)

Naoshi Koriyama

Mother

Herman de Coninck

Muse

Jim Bennett

My Heart

Frank O'Hara

My Poem

Nikki Giovanni

My Poems

Robert Currie

A New Poet

Linda Pastan

Notes on the Art of Poetry

Dylan Thomas

Nym and Graph

Eve Merriam

Oatmeal
(When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone)

Galway Kinnell

Obsessive Combination of Onotological Inscape, Trickery and Love

Anne Sexton

On Hearing Edwin Morgan Read
"Strawberries"

Helen Welsh

Peom

Ken Osborne

Poem for People Who Are Understandably  Too Busy to Read Poetry

Stephen Dunn

The Poem

Homero Aridjis
   translated by Eliot Weinberger

A Poem Off Center

Nikki Giovanni

The Poems I Have Not Written

John Brehm

The Poet

Pablo Neruda

The Poet, Trying to Surprise God

Peter Meinke

Poet's Obligation

Pablo Neruda
(translated by Alastair Reid)

Poetics

Paul Smyth

Poetry

Nikki Giovanni

Poetry

Marianne Moore

Poetry

Pablo Neruda

Poetry

Don Paterson

Poetry, A Natural Thing

Robert Duncan

Poetry and Penguins

Benita Little

Poetry Mobile

Helena Nelson

The Poetry Police

Eddie Gibbons

Poetry Reading

Wislawa Szymborska

The Questions Poems Ask

Lawrence Raab

Reckless Poem

Mary Oliver

Refuge

Richard Denner

Reply to the Question:
How Can You Become a Poet?

Eve Merriam

Salvage This

Jerry Martien

Scotch Hotchpotch

Ingrid Sahai

Several Things

Martha Collins

Teaching the Ape to Write Poems

James Tate

They Call It Metromania

Bruno D'Arcy

There Is Net to Catch a Poem

Jane Yolen

Things

Eloise Greenfield

A View

Dawn Bruce

What Is a Poem?

Christie McKinney
(*a graduate student of mine)

What Makes a Poem?

Eve Merriam

Where Do You Get the Idea for a Poem?

Karla Kuskin

Why Am I Not a Painter?

Frank O'Hara