Hirsch, Edward, How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry, Harcourt, 1999.

This book is a collection of essays about poems from all over the world and from many different eras and includes a glossary of poetic terms and a bibliography.

Morris, John Graves, "Imaginative Imperatives and Intimate Ruminations: An Interview with Stephen Dunn," in Hayden's Ferry Review, Issue 28, Spring—Summer 2001.

In this interview, which took place in 2000, Dunn discusses the writers and life events that influenced his own writing.

Nims, John Frederick, and David Mason, eds., Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetry, 4th ed., McGraw Hill, 2000.

This book provides a guide to the different forms of poetry, including free verse, and an anthology of poetry in English.

Young, Dean, Skid, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002.

To understand the wide variety of tone of early twenty-first-century American poetry, it is instructive to read...