Poems Talking to Poems

Setting Your Poetry Manuscript Apart

Jeffrey Levine, Kristina Marie Darling, Kristina Marie Darling

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Tupelo Press, Incorporated
01 October 2025

Creative writing & creative writing guides; Writing skills

This handbook demystifies the process of crafting a full-length poetry collection.

Poems Talking to Poems presents practical guidance for sequencing, structure and architecture, revision, and choosing titles for sections as well as the poetry manuscript as a whole. This guide also includes insider tips about how contests work, the literary marketplace, and how you can set your work apart.

With essays by such literary luminaries as Ilya Kaminsky, Katie Farris, Kristina Marie Darling, Jeffrey Levine, and many other distinguished contributors, this anthology is a concise and comprehensive field guide to perfecting your book and getting it into print.

Edited by: Jeffrey Levine, Kristina Marie Darling, Kristina Marie Darling
Imprint: Tupelo Press, Incorporated
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 141g
ISBN: 9781961209367
ISBN 10: 1961209365
Pages: 112
Publication Date: 01 October 2025
Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jeffrey Levine is the author of three books of poetry: The Kinnegad Home for the Bewildered, Rumor of Cortez, and Mortal, Everlasting, which won the 2002 Transcontinental Poetry Prize. His many poetry prizes include the Larry Levis Prize from the Missouri Review, the James Hearst Poetry Prize, the Mississippi Review Poetry Prize, the Ekphrasis Poetry Prize, and the 2007 American Literary Review poetry prize. A graduate of the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers, Levine is founder, artistic director, and publisher of Tupelo Press.