Highlights of Poetry. Index of poetry. How to Write Poetry. Books read. |
How to write specific forms:
Haibun. Haiku. Hay(na)ku. Rengay. Tanka. Concrete. Ghazal. Lai. Pantoum. Prose poem. Rondeau. Rubáiyát. Sestina. Skaldic verse. Sonnet. Terza rima. Triolet. Tritina. Villanelle. |
Poets:
Adam Zagajewski.
Billy Collins.
Billy Collins exercise.
Snorri's Edda. Carl Dennis. Corey Marks. Franz Wright. Gary Young. The Gawain Poet. J. D. McClatchy. J. Zimmerman. J. Zimmerman (haiku). J. Zimmerman (tanka). Jack Gilbert. James Maughn. Jane Hirshfield. Jean Vengua. Jorie Graham. Karen Braucher. Karl Shapiro. Kay Ryan. Laureate Poets: Britain; USA. Len Anderson. Li-Young Lee. Linda Pastan. Nordic Skalds. Pulitzer Poetry Prize (U.S.A). Richard Hugo. Robert Bly. Sara Teasdale. Snorri's Edda. Stephen Dunn. Ted Kooser. W.S. Merwin. |
Editor David Lehman.
The Best American Poetry: 2006;
Guest Editor Billy Collins.
The Best American Poetry: 2005; Guest Editor Paul Muldoon. |
On Linda Pastan's Imperfect Paradise
by J. Zimmerman
Linda Pastan. Imperfect Paradise. Structure. Samples. Links. Books.
Buy
Imperfect Paradise,
by Linda Pastan. | Carnival Evening: New and Selected Poems, 1968-1998,
by Linda Pastan. |
[The Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize was established in 1986 to honor work the lifetime achievement of a poet writing in English. Its $100,000 value makes it one of the largest prizes given to American poets.]
Her first book was A Perfect Circle of Sun (l971). Her most recent was The Last Uncle (Norton, 2002).
She is one of 48 women poets whose work is in 100 essential modern poems by women (2008):
100 Essential Modern Poems By Women (2008)
edited by Joseph Parisi and Kathleen Welton. |
Lines per stanza | number of poems |
2 | 1 |
3 | 6 |
4 | 2 |
5 | 0 |
6 | 1 |
7 | 4 |
8 | 2 |
9 | 2 |
10 | 2 |
15 | 1 |
18 | 1 |
19 | 1 |
Darling, though you know
I admire your many fine qualities you don't fill all my needs just now, and besides there's a backlog waiting to fit in my bed. Copyright © 1988 by Linda Pastan. |
Outside the hospital window
the first leaves have opened their shiny blades, and a dozen new accidents turn over in their sleep waiting to happen. Copyright © 1988 by Linda Pastan. |
and in the leftover light
it is hard to see where the descent will end, hard to believe it is death holding her elbow with such care guiding her all the way down. Copyright © 1988 by Linda Pastan. |
100 Essential Modern Poems By Women (2008)
edited by Joseph Parisi and Kathleen Welton. |
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