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POETRY CRAFT
A. R. Ammons, A Poem Is A Walk ^
Alberto Ríos, Should First Words in Lines of Poetry Be Capitalized?
Amiri Baraka, Expressive Language
Andrew David King, The doublespeak of texts and subtexts: indicting the found political poem
Bernadette Mayer, List of journal writing ideas
Cynthia Hogue, An irreverent meditation on the line
Denise Levertov, Some Notes on Organic Form ^
Derek Attridge, Poetic Rhythm ^
Dwight Garner, Sharon Olds (on breathing, the Pope’s penis, and the necessity of getting out of art’s way)
Elisa Gabbert, How Poets Use Punctuation As A Superpower and a Weapon
Elisabeth A. Frost, Visual Poetics ^
Haryette Mullen, On starting a tanka diary ^
James Longenbach, The Point of Poetry: Punctuation & Its Particulars
Lyn Hejinian, Continuing Against Closure ^
Lyn Hejinian, The Rejection of Closure ^
Martha Collins, On Syntax in Poetry ^
Mary Oliver, Diction, Tone, and Voice ^
Mary Szybist, On visual poetry ^
Mary Reufle, Notes On Tone ^
Mike Young and Elissa Gabbert, Moves in Contemporary Poetry
Rae Armantrout, Poetic Silence ^
Raymond De Borja, Lineated Time
Renee Ashley, Field Guide to Prose Poetry and the Art of the Poetic Line
Stephanie Burt, Sestina!, or the Fate of the Idea of Form ^
Ted Berrigan, Sonnet Workshop, 1979 ^
PROSE CRAFT
Alain Robbe-Grillet, The Art of Fiction No. 91
Alexander Chee, 100 Things About Writing a Novel
Benjamin Dreyer, Are These Bad Habits Creeping into Your Writing?
Bonnie Friedman, The Discipline of the Notebook ^
Brenda Miller, The Hermit Crab Essay ^
Clive Thompson, What I Learned About Writing By Seeing Only the Punctuation
Deb Olin Unferth, Correspondence with Christine Schutt
Douglas Glover, The Novel as a Poem
Elisa Gabbert, 50 Moves You Can Use in Your Fiction
Emily Temple, How Kazuo Ishiguro Used “Dream Techniques” to Write His Most Polarizing Novel
Erin Stagg, The Mind’s Eye: Character Thought in Fiction
Gustaw Herling, The Art of Fiction No. 162
Harold Brodkey, The Art of Fiction No. 126
Hilton Als, The Art of the Essay No. 3
Imre Kertész, The Art of Fiction No. 220
Jeanette Winterson, The Art of Fiction No. 150
JoAnna Novak, The Long Dash
Jody Hobbs Hesler, If You Can Name It, Then You Can Fix It: A Craft Glossary
Joe Moran, In Praise of the Long and Complicated Sentence
José Saramago, The Art of Fiction No. 155
Julie Buntin, On Making Things Up: Some True Stories About Writing My Novel
Julie Jones, Weird Plots for Strange Stories: Alternatives to conventional plot structure
Kazim Ali, Genre Queer: Notes Against Binaries ^
Kwame Anthony Appiah, The Art of Nonfiction No. 10
László Krasznahorkai, The Art of Fiction No. 240
Luisa Valenzuela, The Art of Fiction No. 170
Lydia Davis, Revising One Sentence
Marguerite Yourcenar, The Art of Fiction No. 103
Mary Cappello, Before the Essay, the Lecture: Literature’s Lost Performative
Mary Cappello, Notes on Notes
Mary Cappello, Heir to Ambuigity ^
Nay Saysourinho, “What is magic but a story with solid engineering?”
Phillip Lopate, Writing Personal Essays, Turning Oneself into a Character ^
Rachel Cusk, The Art of Fiction No. 246
Richard Thomas, 15 unconventional story methods
Ron Carlson, Writing Dialogue ^
Sadye Taiser, The First-Person Plural
Samantha Harvey, When A Story is Best Told Backwards
T. Kira Madden, Against Catharsis
Ted Gioa, The Rise of the Fragmented Novel
Sara Levine, The Essayist Is Sorry for Your Loss ^
VK McCarty, How to Write an Erotic Love Letter ^
Wes Jamison, You Are Absent: The Pronoun of Address in Nonfiction
PEP TALKS FOR WRITERS (i.e. keep writing)
Lydia Davis, Changing My Mind
Nadia Colburn, On Rejection, the Language of Trauma, and the Rewards of Staying Open
Paul Auster, Why Write? ^
Sheila Heti, A Common Seagull: On making art & mourning