Poetry Tips

Organizations

Poetry Foundation Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.

Poets & Writers supports writers and literature through its magazine, website, and various programs and resources.

Academy of American Poets supporting American poets at all stages of their careers and to foster the appreciation of contemporary poetry.

Poetry Global Network poetry events include Poet's Publishing Cafe and A Book's Dialogue, a poetry book club.

Poetry Super Highway Rick Lupert's poetry site offers contests, open mics, opportunities to share books and poems.

The Haiku Foundation Haiku Writing Prompts, Dialogue and Information.

Haiku Universe offers a daily haiku or micro-poem.

 

Poetry Writing Tips

LitHub - 50 Ways to End a Poem.

2022 ALSCW Conference, Yale University Setting Poems to Music.

Dimitri Reyes  six examples of last word enjambments.

Rebecca Haselton how line breaks shape meaning.

Poet Bernadette Mayer famous poetry prompts and experiments.

Poet Bernadette Mayer's Language pdf of poetry comments, tips, prompts, references.

Trance Poetics Blog focuses on contemporary somatic poetry and poetics, ecolinguistics, pedagogy, and performance.

Contemporary Haibun Online lots of tips for writing English-language haibun, tanka prose, and haiga.

 

Syllable Counters

Fathom check reading level or count syllables in each line

Syllable Counter calculates syllables, also offers lists of one, two, three and four syllable words

Word Stats calculates syllables and breaks down syllable per word

 

Submitting Tips

Cincinnati Review Is Your Poem Ready for Submitting?

Lit Hub Aim for 100 Rejections

Cincinnati Review Making a Submission Spreadsheet

Clifford Garstang 2024 Literary Magazine Ranking for Poetry

Poets & Writers Literary Magazines

Writers.com Poetry Manuscript Format Tips

Every Writer Poetry Revision Checklist

Writers.com How to Get Published

Angela T. Carr Submitting to Journals and Competitions

 

Finding where to Submit & Tracking Submissions

Duotrope

Chill Subs

Submittable

List of other Trackers

 

Word Finders

AZ Rhymes

English Study Online

Rhymer

RhymeZone

Thesaurus Description Database

Trillium Montessori LLC

WordDB

Word Hippo

Wordfinder

Words that Rhyme