The venture of this inviting collection is to look, from the many vantages that the 35 poets in this eclectic anthology chose to look, at what it was—knowing that a poem can’t be conceived in advance of its creation—that helped their poems to emerge or connected them over time. The Rag-Picker's Guide to Poetry permits an inside view of how poets outwit internal censors and habits of thought, showing how the meticulous and the spontaneous come together in the process of discovery. Within are contained the work and thoughts of:

Betty Adcock
Joan Aleshire
Debra Allbery
Elizabeth Arnold
David Baker
Rick Barot
Marianne Boruch
Karen Brennan
Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Michael Collier
Carl Dennis
Stuart Dischell
Roger Fanning
Chris Forhan
Reginald Gibbons
Linda Gregerson
Jennifer Grotz
Brooks Haxton
Tony Hoagland
Mark Jarman
A. Van Jordan
Laura Kasischke
Mary Leader
Dana Levin
James Longenbach
Thomas Lux
Maurice Manning
Heather McHugh
Martha Rhodes
Alan Shapiro
Daniel Tobin
Ellen Bryant Voigt
Alan Williamson
Eleanor Wilner
C. Dale Young

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Eleanor Wilner is the author of seven books of poems, most recently Tourist in Hell and The Girl with Bees in Her Hair; she has also published a verse translation of Euripides’s Medea and a book on visionary imagination. Her awards include a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, the Juniper Prize, Pushcart Prizes, and a National Endowment for the Arts grant. A 40-year veteran of teaching, she has taught for over 20 years for the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.

Maurice Manning is the author of The Gone and the Going Away and The Common Man , which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2010, as well as Bucolics ,A Companion for Owls, and Lawrence Booth’s Book of Visions. He has been a fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and has held a Guggenheim Fellowship. Currently, Manning teaches at Transylvania University.

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