About the Author

NANCY BOGEN is a CUNY professor emeritus and head of The Lark Ascending, a New York-based performance group. Her writing credits include three novels of ideas: Klytaimnestra Who Stayed at Home, Bobe Mayse: A Tale of Washington Square, and Bagatelle*Guinevere by Felice Rothman. She is married and lives in New York City.

Reviews

“Be a Poet! is comprehensive in scope, covering just about every kind of poem in the English language—and highly readable. In this fairly dense book on the history and craft of poetry, it is this informal tone that sets it apart from the rest.”|“A foundational guide. Though she concentrates on . . . poetic forms, rhyme types, meter etc.: her approach is informal. . . . The book has value as a compact manual of the poet's tools.”