Poetry Lessons
 

These are a series of free Lessons and Essays regarding Contemporary Poetry.  These lessons are neither intended to be a manifesto nor a comprehensive survey of contemporary poetics; we simply offer them as a resource you might find useful.  Although offered free to the public, each lesson is copyrighted by its author, so if you wish to distribute, cross-link, copy, or otherwise reproduce them, you must obtain written permission via staff@alsopreview.com.  You may print any of these lessons for your personal use. 

Each set of lessons is grouped by author(s); you may wish to leaf through several authors as there's bound (we hope!) to be different aesthetic takes amongst them all.

We also feature a section of the Alsop Review titled, "Aside";  it's a selection of non-fiction by poets and writers about the craft, art, and culture of writing.

A Poetry Primer

Advice for beginning poets by Bob Charles, TK & Jackson Hunter

So You Want To Be A Poet
On the Matter of Line Breaks
A Layman's Perspective on Meter and Rhyme
On the Matter of lower case and Tricks with Punctuation
Some General Notes

Poetry Essays

Dealing with several topics by RJ McCaffery

"There is nothing so wonderful as a List"
Metaphor, the crux of poetry
A ramble across several subjects:  Poetics, Communication, Poetry, Reading/Readership, Patterns in Poems, Choice in Poems, Tone, Ethical Criticism, Back to Tone, Coyness, Avoidance and the via negetiva.
Personal Poetry & Confession

Recommended Pages

The World's Worst Poet: William Topaz McGonagall.

  The Alsop Review