These are a series of free Lessons and Essays regarding Contemporary Poetry. These lessons are neither intended to be a manifesto nor a comprehensive survey of contemporary poetics; we simply offer them as a resource you might find useful. Although offered free to the public, each lesson is copyrighted by its author, so if you wish to distribute, cross-link, copy, or otherwise reproduce them, you must obtain written permission via staff@alsopreview.com. You may print any of these lessons for your personal use.
Each set of lessons is grouped by author(s); you may wish to leaf through several authors as there's bound (we hope!) to be different aesthetic takes amongst them all.
We also feature a section of the Alsop Review titled, "Aside"; it's a selection of non-fiction by poets and writers about the craft, art, and culture of writing.
Advice for beginning poets by Bob Charles, TK, and Jackson Hunter
