Machine generated contents note: 1.Some Initial Thoughts on Poets and Poetry, Workshopping Poems, and the Creative Process -- 2.Beyond the Ordinary: Witnessing the World as a Poet -- 3.Imagery: Getting to the Heart of It -- 4.Metaphors and Symbols: Finding and Using Creative Analogies -- 5.Line Endings, Turns, and Epiphanies: More Essential Elements of Craft -- 6.The Speaker and the Reader: A Dialogue -- 7.Narrative Poetry: Poems That Tell Stories -- 8.Communicating Emotional Truths and Avoiding Melodrama -- 9.Writing in Other Voices -- 10.Sound Devices -- 11.Punctuation: A Surprisingly Creative Tool -- 12.Effective Titles: Hints at Theme -- 13.Nature as Muse -- 14.The Prose Poem: A Revelatory Form -- 15.Writing in Various Forms -- 16.Portfolios, Presentations, Aural Modeling, and Syllabi.