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Resources for Poets & Writers - Updated 4/30/2010


For Poets & Writers | Business of Writing | More Poetry Resources | Peter's Tips | For Teachers


For Poets & Writers

Poets & Writers Online
Resources for poets and writers, including information on grants and markets.
www.pw.org

Duotrope’s Digest
An interactive database of over 2,400 markets for publishing your fiction and poetry. They have a great search engine which can help you locate places accepting simultaneous & multiple submissions while filtering out ones not currently accepting work, including a chart with average response times for poetry and prose. Be sure to check out their online submissions tracker too!
www.duotrope.com

Creative Writers Opportunities List (CRWROPPS)
List-serve which sends free daily emails with info about literary contests and publication opportunities for poems, stories, essays and book manuscripts to publish as well as contest deadlines.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/crwropps-b

PoetryNJ Literary Event Notices
Our free Yahoo! Group which will email you notices of poetry & prose readings, workshops, conferences and other literary events in NJ, NY, Philly & environs.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/poetrynj

NewPages.com
News, information and guides to independent bookstores, publishers, literary magazines, creative writing programs, writers' conferences and more.
www.newpages.com

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Business of Writing

Is your writing a business or hobby?
Your answer can have a big impact on your taxes. Check out this IRS fact sheet for details.
www.murphywriting.com/resources/is-your-writing-a-business-or-hobby.pdf

Copyright Basics
Did you know your work is automatically copyrighted? Check out this fact sheet from the US Copyright Office.
www.murphywriting.com/resources/copyright-basics-for-writers-and-poets.pdf

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More Poetry Resources

Poetry Daily
A recently published poem each day plus poetry news from around the world.
www.poems.com

Fooling with Words with Bill Moyers
Designed as classroom lessons but easy for individual poets to use as well. Includes teachers’ guides, audio & video clips & three detailed poetry lessons by Peter E. Murphy.
www.pbs.org/wnet/foolingwithwords

Americans’ Favorite Poem Project
Video, audio & texts of poems loved by ordinary Americans.
www.favoritepoem.org/favoritepoem

Poetry 180
Former Poet Laureate Billy Collins’ initiative to post 180 poems for high school students to read and hear, one for each day of the school year.
www.loc.gov/poetry/180

Academy of American Poets
Services for poets & teachers including hundreds of poems on line in text and audio. Great links.
www.poets.org

Poetry Society of America
The nation's oldest poetry organization sponsors programs, initiatives, contests and awards.
www.poetrysociety.org

The Edison Review
Publishes poetry by New Jersey writers and sponsors readings & other literary events.
www.edisonliteraryreview.org

The Poetry Foundation
Home of Poetry Magazine with a huge archives of poems, interviews, news and other useful features.
www.poetryfoundation.org

Internet Poetry Archive
Audio recordings of Seamus Heaney, Yusef Komunyakaa, Philip Levine, Czeslaw Milosz, Robert Pinsky, Margaret Walker & Richard Wilbur.
www.ibiblio.org/ipa/levine.php

Poets OnLine
A site of inspiration. A new poetry writing prompt every two weeks.
www.poetsonline.org

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Peter's Tips

Murphy's Revision Style Sheet
Whether you write prose or poetry, it's your job to get the words right and you can't do this without deep revision. Here are some ideas to get you started.
www.murphywriting.com/resources/revision.html

Murphy's Roof Preading Tips (a.k.a. Murphy's Proofreading Tips)
Few of us can hire our own editors to clean up our messes so here are some of Peter E. Murphy’s favorite things to look out for.
www.murphywriting.com/news/tip_200903_proofreading.html

Have you "Reader Tested" your writing?
Do you know what your readers are thinking? Try my "Reader Test" to see your work in progress as an intelligent, interested stranger might.
www.murphywriting.com/news/writing-tip-2010-03-reader-testing-your-writing.html

Murphy's Submission Resources
Here are a few brilliant internet tools that will give you up to date information on where to submit your poems, stories and creative non-fiction so you can spend more time writing.
www.murphywriting.com/news/tip_200904_submission.html

Murphy's Laws for Writers
Poor Murphy. Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong. You know you're having a Murphy day when things go from bad to worse to terrible. Until now, however, there have not been Murphy's Laws for Writers.
www.murphywriting.com/news/writing-tip-2009-10-murphys-laws-for-writers.html

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Professional Development Resources for Teachers

Check out our list at InserviceSolutions.net

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