How to Make Poems

Introducing general education students as well as English majors to creative writing, Heather Sellers' How to Make Poems: Form and Technique offers an inspiring, lively, and straightforward new book on how to write effective poems.

How to Make Poems is aligned with the pedagogical needs of instructors charged with helping students learn the basic vocabulary and craft elements required to study and write poetry - form and technique. Sellers describes the process in just over 150 pages by using manageable, sequenced modules, ensuring students are writing poems-and experiencing success-right away.

This poetry handbook is written especially for and directly to today's college students, a new generation of learners. The students before us are well-intentioned, socially aware, engaged, and they are expecting-demanding-readings that are whole-heartedly representative in terms of race and gender. They also expect brevity ("tldr") and clarity and resist an overly formal voice and tone.

Thus, How to Make Poems: Form and Technique is designed to reel in students with its clear and casual approach, delicious new poems by global poets, and interesting, accessible, no-fail writing prompts; teachers will find a streamlined yet robust book they can lead with confidence, face-to-face or online.