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Play with Poetry

Feel free to join us on September 12 at 6:30 pm as we "Play with Poetry" at the San Mateo Main Library. You can also use these resources to inspire your poetry, learn different poetry techniques and read how other poets perfect their craft.

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  • BookNew Haven : Yale University Press, [2022] — BIO HARJO
  • Finding What You Didn't Lose

    Expressing Your Truth and Creativity Through Poem-making

    Fox, John, 1955-
    BookNew York : Penguin Putnam, c1995. — 808.1 FOX
  • Fooling With Words

    a Celebration of Poets and Their Craft

    BookNew York : Morrow, c1999. — 808.1 MOY
  • Poetry in Person

    25 Years of Conversation With America's Poets

    BookNew York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010. — 811 POETR
  • BookCambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2002. — 809 KINGSTON
  • What Poets Are Like

    Up and Down With the Writing Life

    Soto, Gary
    BookSeattle : Sasquatch Books, [2013] — 811 SOTO
  • The Poetry Home Repair Manual

    Practical Advice for Beginning Poets

    Kooser, Ted
    BookLincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2005. — 808.1 KOOSER
  • Singing School

    Learning to Write (and Read) Poetry by Studying With the Masters

    Pinsky, Robert
    BookNew York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2013] — 808.1 P657s
  • Writing the Sacred

    a Psalm-inspired Path to Appreciating and Writing Sacred Poetry

    McGinnis, Ray
    BookKelowna, B.C. : Northstone Pub., c2005. — 808.1 MCGIN