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 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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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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 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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 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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