Develop your craft.

DIY MFA, anyone?

Here are some of our cherished poetry self-study resources. If we missed out on a site you know and love, send us a link and we’ll add it to the list.

• The American Academy of Poets hosts a robust database of poems as well as the Poem-a-Day email series.
• With a free Internet Archive account, you can check out ebooks, including poetry collections, anthologies, books of criticism, and craft guides. Perhaps you’d enjoy Poems, Poets, Poetry: an Introduction and Anthology by Helen Vendler.
• The Poet’s House offers a selection of digitized chapbooks.
• This Glossary of Poetic Forms may be interesting to you.
• Some great poetry podcasts include VS with Danez Smith and Franny Choi, Poem Talk, and the New Yorker’s Poetry.

Read widely.

Here are some publications we adore.

• The Adroit Journal regularly publishes strong work, criticism, and interviews, and curates useful information for writers.
• perhappened mag and press publishes phenomenal monthly themed issues as well as chapbooks.
• Poetry Daily is an anthology of poems selected from publications everywhere. The poems are made available on the site and, as the name suggests, delivered daily via e-mail.
• Prolit Magazine publishes writing about money, work, class, or capitalism.
• 3Elements Review is a quarterly magazine built around an innovative concept: the theme of each issue consists of three words that must appear in every submission.