The best poems surprise the poet.

Restriction is the trick.
 
 
How Poets’ Drafts Reveal the Messy Truth of Writing

Poems contain their own vanished histories.
 
Poets' drafts of poems in progress.
 
The Art of the Cento

Centos are the result of play and intuition.
 
 
Write, Revise, Submit

Essential Tips for Undergraduate Writers
 
 
Where Poetry Breathes

A Conversation with Adela Najarro and M. Soledad Caballero