Poets will find 1,700 listings, including U.S. and international publishers of poetry, a list of Canadian and U.S. arts councils, contests and awards, writing colonies, organizations useful to poets, and publications useful to poets.

This annual brings together the two key aspects of children's publishing--the writing and the illustrating--in one handy volume of markets, including book publishers, magazines, audio-visual and audiotape markets and scriptwriting markets. Includes helpful articles.

Fiction writers turn to this guide each year for marketing information on 1,900 fiction publishers. Helpful articles and interviews with professional writers make this book essential for novel and short story writers.

In each of the 1,700 listings in Poet's Market, poet/author Judson Jerome meets the special needs of poets by providing detailed analysis of the markets. Jerome also answers the most asked questions about how to get published and offers advice and inspiration to poets.

This poet's directory contains 1,700 listings--U.S. and international publishers, Canadian and U.S. art councils, contests and awards, conferences and workshops, writing colonies, organizations and publications. Poets will also find advice on submission formats, cover letters, record-keeping, and other aspects of submitting.

This is, perhaps, the widest ranging, most comprehensive poetry collection available, and it is useful for poetry courses at all levels. It contains an excellent introduction to reading poetry and understanding the elements, as well as sections on poems and paintings, poems and music, and poems from other languages. Sections on featured poets are integrated with the chronological anthology which gives students a perspective on the variety and range of a large group of poets. This multi-national, multi-cultural, multi-genre and multi-lingual collection gives students a view and instructors an opportunity to teach the universality of poetry. Includes a superb historical range of poetry, from its recorded beginnings to most contemporary.

Presents the 1913 edition of African-American writer Paul Dunbar's collected poems and adds sixty poems to it, also providing variants, selected primary and secondary bibliographies, and an index of first lines.

Here in one volume is a selection of the extraordinary poems of Rita Dove, who, as the nation's Poet Laureate from 1993 to 1995, brought poetry into the lives of millions of people. Along with a new introduction and poem, Selected Poems comprises Dove's collections The Yellow House on the Corner, which includes a group of poems devoted to the themes of slavery and freedom; Museum, intimate ruminations on home and the world; and finally, Thomas and Beulah, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1987, a verse cycle loosely based on her grandparents' lives. Precisely yet intensely felt, resonant with the voices of ordinary people, Rita Dove's Selected Poems is marked by lyric intensity and compassionate storytelling.

2009 Poet's Market will give you all the information necessary to research markets and submit your poetry for publication. In addition to market listings, you'll find guidance for preparing and submitting manuscripts, identifying markets, relating to editors, and more. Plus, the book includes additional listings for conferences, workshops, organizations for poets, print and online resources, and the latest trends in poetry writing and publishing.

Provides up-to-date profiles on the careers of leading and emerging poets.