The Crafty Poet: A Portable Workshop, edited by Diane Lockward

WEST CALDWELL, N.J. - Jan. 31, 2017 - PRLog -- A poetry tutorial to inform and inspire poets. Includes model poems and prompts, craft tips, and interviews with poets. Geared towards practicing and aspiring poets. Guaranteed to break through any writer's block. Ideal for the classroom or individual use.

Contributors include 65 of our nation's finest poets, 16 of them current or former state poets laureate. An additional 47 accomplished poets, two of them former state poets laureate, have contributed sample poems. Students will learn from such poets as George Bilgere, Natalie Diaz, Camille Dungy, Tony Hoagland, Lee Upton, Robert Wrigley, Alberto Rios, Dean Young, Laure-Ann Bosselaar, Laura Kasischke. Ellen Bass, and Ada Limon.

Diane Lockward is the author of four poetry collections, most recently The Uneaten Carrots of Atonement (Wind Publications,2016). She is also the author of two chapbooks, Greatest Hits: 1997-2010 (Kattywompus Press, 2012) and Against Perfection (Poets Forum Press, 1998). Her poems have been published in several anthologies, including Poetry Daily: 366 Poems from the World's Most Popular Poetry Website and Garrison Keillor's Good Poems for Hard Times. Her poems have appeared in such journals as Prairie Schooner, Harvard Review, and Spoon River Poetry Review. Her poems have also been featured on Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, and The Writer's Almanac. She is the recipient of a poetry fellowship from the NJ State Council on the Arts, the first place prize in the 2012 Naugatuck River Poetry Review Contest, the Quentin R. Howard Poetry Prize, and a Woman of Achievement Award.

The Crafty Poet II is available through eBookIt.com (https://www.ebookit.com/tools/pd/Bo/eBookIt/booktitle-The...), Amazon.com, B&N.com, and other online sources.

The Crafty Poet, 327 pages, $11.99

ISBN: 978-0-9976666-7-0

Contact the editor for readings or workshops:

973-226-0807

dslockward@gmail.com

www.terrapinbooks.com