Howard Miller
02-03-2002, 11:56 AM
Here is a brief (well, it was when it started) subject index of threads in Blurbs of Wisdom for reference purposes. Bear in mind that conversations often move from one subject to another within a single thread, so there will sometimes be references to Subject A in a thread listed as dealing with Subject B. For instance, the Capitalizing the Start of a Line thread is really mostly about enjambment (mutter, mutterdamn poets never can keep focused on a single topic).
To give people somewhere to start, threads we think are particularly useful have been marked with a [COLOR=red]@[/COLOR] [color=white]-[/color]
Introduction to Board for Newbies:
1. Why Post At All?
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR] [color=white]-[/color]What if I just want to write for myself? (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9908)
2. What Not To Do
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR] [color=white]-[/color]Five Beginners' Blunders (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9910)
3. How To Accept Criticism
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR] [color=white]-[/color]Before Posting: A Workshop for One (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9920)
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR] [color=white]-[/color]Nasty Criticism (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9932)
4. How Not to Write Poetry to Be Posted to a Workshop
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR] [color=white]-[/color]Instant Poetry (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9964)
5. Coming to Terms with PFFA as a Workshop (A Case Study):
so..., I've got a question (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9957)
6. Fundamentals of Poetry Writing
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR] [color=white]-[/color]"Advice I Wish I'd Been Told" by Walt MacDonald (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=27474)
7. Random Bits of Assorted Wisdom for Newbies
Last Words (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9941)
Where to Post (Discussion of Forum Levels):
Excuse Me, Moderator; Where Should I Post? (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9886)
Excuse Me, Moderator; Where Should I Post? Part II (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9897)
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR] [color=white]-[/color] On Posting to the Higher Critical Forums (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=12871)
Showing and Telling:
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR] [color=white]-[/color]Show and Tell (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9912)
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR] [color=white]-[/color]A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=26215)
Abstractions:
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR] [color=white]-[/color]A Short Blurb on Abstractions (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9883)
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR] [color=white]-[/color]Abstractions and How To Identify Them (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9928)
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR] [color=white]-[/color]How To Avoid Abstractions and Clichés (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9963)
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR] [color=white]-[/color]"Advice I Wish I'd Been Told" by Walt MacDonald (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=27474)
Abstraction Done Well (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9906)
Using Abstractions Effectively (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?t=54703)
Levels of Abstraction (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?t=33222)
Abstractions Again (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?t=34427)
Clichés:
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR] [color=white]-[/color]Because I love you all so much, a little blurb about clichés (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9887)
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR] [color=white]-[/color]A Question on Clichés (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9930)
Cliché Central (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9942)
Language:
A. Words
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR] [color=white]-[/color]Action! (Verbs in Poetry) (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?t=39762)
The Strength of Words (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9949)
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR] [color=white]-[/color]Modifiers/Noun-Adjective Pairings (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9952)
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR] [color=white]-[/color]"On How to Modify a Poem" (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?t=38482)
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR] [color=white]-[/color]Modifiers in Poetry (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?t=39765)
More on Modifiers in Poetry (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?t=54909)
B. Archaic Diction:
Retro Words (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9947)
C. Inventing Words
When is it okay . . . . (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=12868)
Thinking About Words (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?t=33282)
D. Latinate vs. Anglo-Saxon Diction:
Latinate Diction in Poetry (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=20957)
Figurative Language:
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR] [color=white]-[/color]Figurative Language (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9913)
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR] [color=white]-[/color]Metaphor (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?t=39737)
A Question on Metaphors (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9936)
Personification Blues (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=12201)
A Thought on Metaphors (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=4859)
A Question About Repeated Similes (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=4871)
Extended Metaphor (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=15301)
Symbolism:
Symbolism (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=25636)
Introduction to Symbolism (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=25638)
Spelling:
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR] [color=white]-[/color]Learn to Spell as a valid criticism (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9889)
Grammar:
Punctuation Links (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9950)
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR]Making a Point About Proper Punctuation (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=4388)
Donner's Helpful Hints (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9882)
A Question About Gerunds (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9895)
Punctuation from Hell: The Apostrophe; or, How to Your Its from Your It's (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9940)
Punctuation Pitfalls (Semicolons and Ellipses) (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9946)
Voice and Tense (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=18230)
Passive Voice (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=19226)
Rhyme:
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR] [color=white]-[/color]Forced Rhyme (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9904)
"Observations on Rhyme" (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?t=38134)
Notes on Rimas Dissolutas (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9919)
Meter:
Scansion (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9896)
[Normative Meter, Two-Syllable Feet and Three-Syllable Feet (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9924)
Handy Dandy Vest Pocket Guide to Iambic Pentameter (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=16129)
Standard Substitutions in Strict Iambic Pentameter (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=11320)
Using the Headless Iamb (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?t=46995)
Let Us Pause: The Caesura (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9918)
Accentual Meter (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=15199)
Meter in Free Verse (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=18909)
Greek and English Meters--How They Differ (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=24103)
Contemporary Approaches to Meter (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=24510)
Syllabics (Syllabic Meter) (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?t=40240)
Sounds in Poetry:
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR] [color=white]-[/color]Rhythm and Sound in Poetry ~ Expanded Version (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9955)
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR] [color=white]-[/color]Aural Images and Sonics (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=25480)
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR] [color=white]-[/color]A Neurological Introduction to Sound (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=32937)
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[color=white]-[/color]Sonics: Recurrence (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?t=57121)
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR] [color=white]-[/color]The Sound of -- um well -- Sound (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=32940)
The Look or the Sound (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9899)
Using Sound (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9927)
The Weight of Syllables (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9937)
Capitalization and Enjambment:
Capitalizing the Start of a Line (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9884)
Upper Case (Beginning Lines with Uppercase Letters) (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=31140&perpage=15&pagenumber=1)
Line Breaks and Enjambment:
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR] [color=white]-[/color]Lines and Line Breaks (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9958)
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR] [color=white]-[/color]Denise Levertov -- "On the Function of the Line" (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=31654)
Good Line Breaks (A Question) (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9892)
Stanzas:
A Question About Strophes (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9877)
Another term question (Stanza/Strophe) (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9960)
"Why Strophes?" (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?t=38965)
Poetic Structure:
The Structure of Poems (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=29935)
Ending a Poem (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=21501)
Form and Structure (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?t=39590)
Images:
One Simple Thing - Focus of Images (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9880)
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR] [color=white]-[/color]Poetry as Experience (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9935)
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR] [color=white]-[/color]Images, Metaphors, and Meaning (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9965)
Engaging the Senses Through Multiple Images (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=25485)
Aural Images and Sonics (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=25480)
Clarity:
A Blurb on Clarity (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9891)
Voice:
Voice and Tense (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=18230)
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR] [color=white]-[/color]A Question of Voice (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=25731)
Writing Poetry:
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR] [color=white]-[/color]Writing and Critical Thinking (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=19915)
Mark Doty on the Composition of "A Display of Mackerel" (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=21503)
Rita Dove on the Composition of "Parsley" (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=27432)
Purpose in Poetry (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=16921)
Who Is My Audience? (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=20111)
Obscurity and Familiarity (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=18722)
Subtexts in Poetry (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=21022)
Point of View (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=21365)
Poem-ing Actual Events (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?t=33932)
Contrast as a Method of Developing a Poem (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?t=42303)
Rewriting Poetry:
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR] [color=white]-[/color] The Rewriting Process (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=13096)
Rewrite Woes (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9923)
When Is A Poem A Finished Product? (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9954)
"Revisions" (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?t=39021)
Reading Poetry:
No Need to Read Poetry (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9944)
Readers DO Have Some Responsibilities (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9931)
Designs on the Reader (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?t=54496)
Discussions of Individual Poets
Rachel and Howard Twirl to the Mark Doty Merengue (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?t=42614)
Rachel and Howard Move to the Marge Piercy Mambo (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?t=39903)
Rachel and Howard Dance the Ted Kooser Boogie (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?t=37986)
Stephen Dobyns' Style (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?t=39801)
Bukowski (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?t=4670)
Billy Collins (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?t=40227)
How to Read John Ashbery (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?t=41033)
Al Purdy (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?t=45704)
Discussions of Individual Poems:
Why Do You Like That Poem? (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=4891)
An Example of a Good Spiritual Poem (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=15299)
Images, Metaphors, and Meaning (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9965)
"The Dog" by Gerald Stern (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=21017)
Gwendolyn Brooks' "We Real Cool": Why Is This Good Poetry? (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=28677)
Transtormer's "Tracks" (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?t=40228)
"A Younger Woman" by John Stammers (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?t=37645)
"Is 'The Red Wheelbarrow' Overrated?" (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?t=39544)
Wallace Stevens' "The Emperor of Ice Cream" (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?t=39414)
"White Pig" by Stephen Dobyns (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?t=39405)
"The Orchards of Syon" by Geoffrey Hill (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?t=40199)
Ai -- "Woman" (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?t=42966)
"It was not Death for I stood up" -- Emily Dickinson (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?t=52442)
The Art and Science of Critique:
NOTE: The Picks of the Litter - Critiques Forum contains many excellent examples of how to critique well.
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR] [color=white]-[/color] Careful Reading and Critique: Focus and Filters (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=12867)
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR] [color=white]-[/color]Critique Guidelines: Focus and Filters Crib Sheet (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=32934)
Critique in General Poetry (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9902)
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR] [color=white]-[/color]JB's Top 5 Crit Tips for Beginners (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9881)
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR] [color=white]-[/color]How Do You Write Good Crits? (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9953)
How Do You Choose Which Poems to Critique? (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9909)
What's Wrong with Your Critiques? (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9962)
Example of How to Crit and How to Respond (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9926)
Case Study: Responding to Criticism (How Not To) (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9900)
One-Line Wonders in Anarchy Condensed: How NOT to Critique (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?t=42860)
Poetic Forms:
Prelude: How Do I Begin to Write in Forms?
Can You Spare Some Advice (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9921)
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR] [color=white]-[/color]Rhyme, Meter, Stanza, and Pattern (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?t=43563)
I. Haiku:
Haiku Resources (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9943)
Bad Haiku (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9879)
II. The Sonnet:
I'd Like to Know More About This Poem (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9905)
14 Lined Rhymed Poems Written in Iambic Pentameter with a Rhyme Scheme (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9907)
(NOTE: This is actually a continuation of the previous thread)
Basic Sonnet Forms (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9922)
3. The Triolet:
Notes on the Triolet (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9916)
4. The Ballade:
Notes on the Ballade (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9915)
5. The Rondeau:
Notes on the Rondeau: (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9914)
6. Terza Rima:
Notes on Terza Rima (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9917)
Subject Matter:
Woe is Hell (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9903)
A Word About Spiritual Poetry (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9901)
How to Write Better Love Poetry (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9934)
(im)practical experiments in poetry (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9939)
Nonsense Verse (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=17508)
The Nature of Poetry:
What is Poetry? (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9888)
( NOTE: Bring your lunch; you're going to be here a while)
Is 'metrical' a sufficient condition for 'poetry? (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9966)
(Another one to bring your lunch to)
Prose with Linebreaks!!! (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=24896)
How Free is the "Free" in "Free Verse"? (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=15065)
Pros and beginners alike, what is your opinion? (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9938)
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR] [color=white]-[/color]On Poetry and Self-Expression (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9894)
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR] [color=white]-[/color]The Trouble with 'I' (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9956)
(Why poetry is more than self expression)
Much More on "I": Real or Fictional? (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=18427)
Can Someone Tell Me Where the Deep End Is (Meaning in Poetry) (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9961)
Hidden Meanings (More About Meaning in Poetry) (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9959)
Writing from Experience (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=12869)
An Interesting Link (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9893)
(NOTE: The original link to an essay on the decline of contemporary poetry is no longer valid; fortunately, the discussion which follows doesn't depend on that essay particularly)
Slam/Performance Poetry:
Poetry Slam (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9925)
Some Mini-Anthologies of Recommended Reading:
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR] [color=white]-[/color]Connect the Poem (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9929)
(A chain of poems connected by - well, you figure it out)
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR] [color=white]-[/color]Connect the Poem Version 2.0 (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=13145) (More of the same, but four times as long)
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR]Connect the Poem Version 3.0 (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?t=58220) (Even more)
Fall Poems (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?t=40714)
Poems on Poetry (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?t=44628)
Poems I Wish I'd Written (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?t=45911)
Poems on Loss and Bereavement (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?t=50943)
Poetry Competition Example Poems:
"Sense of Place" Poems (Competition II) (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=18387)
Examples of Poems That Present Character (Competition III) (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?t=33786)
Reference Works:
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR] [color=white]-[/color]The everypoet.com Poetry Reading List (http://www.everypoet.com/readinglist.htm)
Books about poetry, anthologies and reference works recommended by PFFA members
Copyright:
Copyright Question (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9933)
Plagiarism:
A Message from Your Friendly Mod (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9878)
The Fuzzy Boundaries of Plagiarism (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=15743)
Poetry.com:
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR] [color=white]-[/color]Poetry.com One More Time (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9951)
Just in Case You Still Doubt Poetry.Com is a Scam (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9945)
Continuation of Donner's 'Poetry.com is a Scam' (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9948)
I Need Some Information about Poetry.com (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9885)
To give people somewhere to start, threads we think are particularly useful have been marked with a [COLOR=red]@[/COLOR] [color=white]-[/color]
Introduction to Board for Newbies:
1. Why Post At All?
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR] [color=white]-[/color]What if I just want to write for myself? (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9908)
2. What Not To Do
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR] [color=white]-[/color]Five Beginners' Blunders (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9910)
3. How To Accept Criticism
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR] [color=white]-[/color]Before Posting: A Workshop for One (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9920)
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR] [color=white]-[/color]Nasty Criticism (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9932)
4. How Not to Write Poetry to Be Posted to a Workshop
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR] [color=white]-[/color]Instant Poetry (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9964)
5. Coming to Terms with PFFA as a Workshop (A Case Study):
so..., I've got a question (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9957)
6. Fundamentals of Poetry Writing
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR] [color=white]-[/color]"Advice I Wish I'd Been Told" by Walt MacDonald (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=27474)
7. Random Bits of Assorted Wisdom for Newbies
Last Words (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9941)
Where to Post (Discussion of Forum Levels):
Excuse Me, Moderator; Where Should I Post? (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9886)
Excuse Me, Moderator; Where Should I Post? Part II (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9897)
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR] [color=white]-[/color] On Posting to the Higher Critical Forums (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=12871)
Showing and Telling:
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR] [color=white]-[/color]Show and Tell (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9912)
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR] [color=white]-[/color]A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=26215)
Abstractions:
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR] [color=white]-[/color]A Short Blurb on Abstractions (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9883)
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR] [color=white]-[/color]Abstractions and How To Identify Them (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9928)
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR] [color=white]-[/color]How To Avoid Abstractions and Clichés (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9963)
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR] [color=white]-[/color]"Advice I Wish I'd Been Told" by Walt MacDonald (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=27474)
Abstraction Done Well (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9906)
Using Abstractions Effectively (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?t=54703)
Levels of Abstraction (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?t=33222)
Abstractions Again (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?t=34427)
Clichés:
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR] [color=white]-[/color]Because I love you all so much, a little blurb about clichés (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9887)
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR] [color=white]-[/color]A Question on Clichés (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9930)
Cliché Central (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9942)
Language:
A. Words
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR] [color=white]-[/color]Action! (Verbs in Poetry) (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?t=39762)
The Strength of Words (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9949)
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR] [color=white]-[/color]Modifiers/Noun-Adjective Pairings (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9952)
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR] [color=white]-[/color]"On How to Modify a Poem" (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?t=38482)
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR] [color=white]-[/color]Modifiers in Poetry (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?t=39765)
More on Modifiers in Poetry (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?t=54909)
B. Archaic Diction:
Retro Words (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9947)
C. Inventing Words
When is it okay . . . . (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=12868)
Thinking About Words (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?t=33282)
D. Latinate vs. Anglo-Saxon Diction:
Latinate Diction in Poetry (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=20957)
Figurative Language:
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR] [color=white]-[/color]Figurative Language (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9913)
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR] [color=white]-[/color]Metaphor (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?t=39737)
A Question on Metaphors (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9936)
Personification Blues (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=12201)
A Thought on Metaphors (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=4859)
A Question About Repeated Similes (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=4871)
Extended Metaphor (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=15301)
Symbolism:
Symbolism (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=25636)
Introduction to Symbolism (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=25638)
Spelling:
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR] [color=white]-[/color]Learn to Spell as a valid criticism (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9889)
Grammar:
Punctuation Links (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9950)
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR]Making a Point About Proper Punctuation (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=4388)
Donner's Helpful Hints (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9882)
A Question About Gerunds (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9895)
Punctuation from Hell: The Apostrophe; or, How to Your Its from Your It's (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9940)
Punctuation Pitfalls (Semicolons and Ellipses) (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9946)
Voice and Tense (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=18230)
Passive Voice (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=19226)
Rhyme:
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR] [color=white]-[/color]Forced Rhyme (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9904)
"Observations on Rhyme" (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?t=38134)
Notes on Rimas Dissolutas (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9919)
Meter:
Scansion (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9896)
[Normative Meter, Two-Syllable Feet and Three-Syllable Feet (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9924)
Handy Dandy Vest Pocket Guide to Iambic Pentameter (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=16129)
Standard Substitutions in Strict Iambic Pentameter (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=11320)
Using the Headless Iamb (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?t=46995)
Let Us Pause: The Caesura (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9918)
Accentual Meter (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=15199)
Meter in Free Verse (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=18909)
Greek and English Meters--How They Differ (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=24103)
Contemporary Approaches to Meter (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=24510)
Syllabics (Syllabic Meter) (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?t=40240)
Sounds in Poetry:
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR] [color=white]-[/color]Rhythm and Sound in Poetry ~ Expanded Version (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9955)
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR] [color=white]-[/color]Aural Images and Sonics (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=25480)
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR] [color=white]-[/color]A Neurological Introduction to Sound (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=32937)
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[color=white]-[/color]Sonics: Recurrence (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?t=57121)
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR] [color=white]-[/color]The Sound of -- um well -- Sound (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=32940)
The Look or the Sound (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9899)
Using Sound (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9927)
The Weight of Syllables (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9937)
Capitalization and Enjambment:
Capitalizing the Start of a Line (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9884)
Upper Case (Beginning Lines with Uppercase Letters) (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=31140&perpage=15&pagenumber=1)
Line Breaks and Enjambment:
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR] [color=white]-[/color]Lines and Line Breaks (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9958)
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR] [color=white]-[/color]Denise Levertov -- "On the Function of the Line" (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=31654)
Good Line Breaks (A Question) (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9892)
Stanzas:
A Question About Strophes (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9877)
Another term question (Stanza/Strophe) (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9960)
"Why Strophes?" (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?t=38965)
Poetic Structure:
The Structure of Poems (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=29935)
Ending a Poem (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=21501)
Form and Structure (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?t=39590)
Images:
One Simple Thing - Focus of Images (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9880)
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR] [color=white]-[/color]Poetry as Experience (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9935)
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR] [color=white]-[/color]Images, Metaphors, and Meaning (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9965)
Engaging the Senses Through Multiple Images (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=25485)
Aural Images and Sonics (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=25480)
Clarity:
A Blurb on Clarity (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9891)
Voice:
Voice and Tense (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=18230)
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR] [color=white]-[/color]A Question of Voice (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=25731)
Writing Poetry:
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR] [color=white]-[/color]Writing and Critical Thinking (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=19915)
Mark Doty on the Composition of "A Display of Mackerel" (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=21503)
Rita Dove on the Composition of "Parsley" (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=27432)
Purpose in Poetry (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=16921)
Who Is My Audience? (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=20111)
Obscurity and Familiarity (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=18722)
Subtexts in Poetry (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=21022)
Point of View (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=21365)
Poem-ing Actual Events (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?t=33932)
Contrast as a Method of Developing a Poem (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?t=42303)
Rewriting Poetry:
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR] [color=white]-[/color] The Rewriting Process (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=13096)
Rewrite Woes (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9923)
When Is A Poem A Finished Product? (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9954)
"Revisions" (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?t=39021)
Reading Poetry:
No Need to Read Poetry (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9944)
Readers DO Have Some Responsibilities (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9931)
Designs on the Reader (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?t=54496)
Discussions of Individual Poets
Rachel and Howard Twirl to the Mark Doty Merengue (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?t=42614)
Rachel and Howard Move to the Marge Piercy Mambo (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?t=39903)
Rachel and Howard Dance the Ted Kooser Boogie (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?t=37986)
Stephen Dobyns' Style (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?t=39801)
Bukowski (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?t=4670)
Billy Collins (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?t=40227)
How to Read John Ashbery (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?t=41033)
Al Purdy (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?t=45704)
Discussions of Individual Poems:
Why Do You Like That Poem? (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=4891)
An Example of a Good Spiritual Poem (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=15299)
Images, Metaphors, and Meaning (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9965)
"The Dog" by Gerald Stern (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=21017)
Gwendolyn Brooks' "We Real Cool": Why Is This Good Poetry? (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=28677)
Transtormer's "Tracks" (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?t=40228)
"A Younger Woman" by John Stammers (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?t=37645)
"Is 'The Red Wheelbarrow' Overrated?" (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?t=39544)
Wallace Stevens' "The Emperor of Ice Cream" (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?t=39414)
"White Pig" by Stephen Dobyns (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?t=39405)
"The Orchards of Syon" by Geoffrey Hill (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?t=40199)
Ai -- "Woman" (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?t=42966)
"It was not Death for I stood up" -- Emily Dickinson (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?t=52442)
The Art and Science of Critique:
NOTE: The Picks of the Litter - Critiques Forum contains many excellent examples of how to critique well.
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR] [color=white]-[/color] Careful Reading and Critique: Focus and Filters (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=12867)
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR] [color=white]-[/color]Critique Guidelines: Focus and Filters Crib Sheet (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=32934)
Critique in General Poetry (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9902)
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR] [color=white]-[/color]JB's Top 5 Crit Tips for Beginners (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9881)
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR] [color=white]-[/color]How Do You Write Good Crits? (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9953)
How Do You Choose Which Poems to Critique? (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9909)
What's Wrong with Your Critiques? (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9962)
Example of How to Crit and How to Respond (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9926)
Case Study: Responding to Criticism (How Not To) (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9900)
One-Line Wonders in Anarchy Condensed: How NOT to Critique (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?t=42860)
Poetic Forms:
Prelude: How Do I Begin to Write in Forms?
Can You Spare Some Advice (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9921)
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR] [color=white]-[/color]Rhyme, Meter, Stanza, and Pattern (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?t=43563)
I. Haiku:
Haiku Resources (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9943)
Bad Haiku (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9879)
II. The Sonnet:
I'd Like to Know More About This Poem (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9905)
14 Lined Rhymed Poems Written in Iambic Pentameter with a Rhyme Scheme (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9907)
(NOTE: This is actually a continuation of the previous thread)
Basic Sonnet Forms (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9922)
3. The Triolet:
Notes on the Triolet (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9916)
4. The Ballade:
Notes on the Ballade (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9915)
5. The Rondeau:
Notes on the Rondeau: (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9914)
6. Terza Rima:
Notes on Terza Rima (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9917)
Subject Matter:
Woe is Hell (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9903)
A Word About Spiritual Poetry (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9901)
How to Write Better Love Poetry (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9934)
(im)practical experiments in poetry (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9939)
Nonsense Verse (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=17508)
The Nature of Poetry:
What is Poetry? (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9888)
( NOTE: Bring your lunch; you're going to be here a while)
Is 'metrical' a sufficient condition for 'poetry? (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9966)
(Another one to bring your lunch to)
Prose with Linebreaks!!! (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=24896)
How Free is the "Free" in "Free Verse"? (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=15065)
Pros and beginners alike, what is your opinion? (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9938)
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR] [color=white]-[/color]On Poetry and Self-Expression (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9894)
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR] [color=white]-[/color]The Trouble with 'I' (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9956)
(Why poetry is more than self expression)
Much More on "I": Real or Fictional? (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=18427)
Can Someone Tell Me Where the Deep End Is (Meaning in Poetry) (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9961)
Hidden Meanings (More About Meaning in Poetry) (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9959)
Writing from Experience (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=12869)
An Interesting Link (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9893)
(NOTE: The original link to an essay on the decline of contemporary poetry is no longer valid; fortunately, the discussion which follows doesn't depend on that essay particularly)
Slam/Performance Poetry:
Poetry Slam (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9925)
Some Mini-Anthologies of Recommended Reading:
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR] [color=white]-[/color]Connect the Poem (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9929)
(A chain of poems connected by - well, you figure it out)
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR] [color=white]-[/color]Connect the Poem Version 2.0 (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=13145) (More of the same, but four times as long)
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR]Connect the Poem Version 3.0 (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?t=58220) (Even more)
Fall Poems (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?t=40714)
Poems on Poetry (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?t=44628)
Poems I Wish I'd Written (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?t=45911)
Poems on Loss and Bereavement (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?t=50943)
Poetry Competition Example Poems:
"Sense of Place" Poems (Competition II) (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=18387)
Examples of Poems That Present Character (Competition III) (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?t=33786)
Reference Works:
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR] [color=white]-[/color]The everypoet.com Poetry Reading List (http://www.everypoet.com/readinglist.htm)
Books about poetry, anthologies and reference works recommended by PFFA members
Copyright:
Copyright Question (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9933)
Plagiarism:
A Message from Your Friendly Mod (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9878)
The Fuzzy Boundaries of Plagiarism (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=15743)
Poetry.com:
[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR] [color=white]-[/color]Poetry.com One More Time (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9951)
Just in Case You Still Doubt Poetry.Com is a Scam (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9945)
Continuation of Donner's 'Poetry.com is a Scam' (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9948)
I Need Some Information about Poetry.com (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9885)