Westmoreland County Community College Library: Portrait of the Artist as a Bingo Worker: The Writing Life / Understanding Poetry

The Writing Life

"I'd like to say one thing that, after all these years, I'm pretty sure of is that writing - the teaching and doing of it - might be flakey business, but it's important the way all art is important. It makes us happy. It helps make sense of things. It allows us to be ourselves. It allows us to see what's possible. It gives us hope." Lori Jakiela in Portrait of the Artist as a Bingo Worker, page 188.

Writers on Writing by Robert Pack (Editor); Jay Parini (Editor)
Call Number: PN165 .W684 1991

A celebration of the act and the art of writing for writers, teachers, and readers by 25 established poets and fiction writers, including Philip Levine.
Poetry in Person by Alexander Neubauer (Editor)
Call Number: PS617 .P63 2010

From Maxine Kumin in 1973 to Eamon Grennan in 1996, including Amy Clampitt, Marilyn Hacker, Paul Muldoon, Nobel laureate Derek Walcott, and U.S. poet laureates Robert Hass, Robert Pinsky, Louise Gluck, and Charles Simic, this book follows an extraordinary range of poets as they create their poems and offers numerous illustrations of the original drafts, which bring their processes to light.
Dear Mister Essay Writer Guy by Dinty W. Moore
Call Number: PE1479.A88 M67 2015

"This irreverent guide to crafting personal essays and creative nonfiction takes inspiration from the father of the essay, Michele de Montaigne, using lively essays to answer writing questions from top writers like Cheryl Strayed and Philip Lopate"-- Provided by publisher.

Understanding Poetry

How a Poem Moves by Adam Sol
ISBN: 9781770414563

Publication Date: 2019-03-12

A collection of 35 short essays that walks readers through an array of contemporary poems. For people who are afraid they "don't get" poetry. Includes an essay by Philip Levine.