How to Create Poem Titles: 5 Techniques for Naming Your Work
Hey poet!
Explore five key strategies for creating attention-grabbing, meaningful poem titles.
Whether your titles come easily or feel like the final battle in your revision process, we’ll find you some practical tactics to use the next time you need the perfect title.
Stay tuned to the end where Danielle shares a special bonus prompt to guide you when you’re stuck, inspired by the mentoring of poet Shira Erlichman.
MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE
Poems:
"Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota" by James Wright
"Pulled Over in Short Hills, NJ, 8:00 AM" by Ross Gay
"Nashville" by Tiana Clark
"The City in Which I Love You" by Li-Young Lee
"Topography of a Family Farm Circa Age Nine" by Luna Rey Hall
"Sestina: Like" by A.E. Stallings
"Sonnet 146" by R.A. Villanueva
"Crew Love Elegy" by Patrick Rosal
"Essay on Thunder” by Sumita Chakravorty
“Google Ghazal” by Danielle Mitchell
"American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin" by Terrance Hayes
"Thirteen Ways of Looking" by Ama Codjoe
“Thirteen Ways of Looking at Blackbird” by Wallace Stevens
"Orange Alert" by Natalie Diaz
"Miss Black America" by Morgan Parker
"From the Unwritten Letters of Joseph Freeman" by Camille Dungy
"Poem in Which Elephants Are Stupendous" by Chelsea Wagenaar
"A Poem in Which I Try to Express My Glee at the Music My Friend Has Given Me" by Ross Gay
"You Could Never Take A Car to Greenland" by Maggie Smith
"This is Just to Say" by William Carlos Williams
"Since I Quit that Internet Service" by Taylor Johnson
"I Call for My Stranger, I Long for Him" by Dawn Lundy Martin
"Praise Song for the Stiletto" by Danielle Mitchell
Books:
Poets:
James Wright
Ross Gay
Tiana Clark
Li-Young Lee
Luna Rey Hall
A.E. Stallings
R.A. Villanueva
Patrick Rosal
Sumita Chakravorty
Terrance Hayes
Ama Codjoe
Natalie Diaz
Morgan Parker
Camille Dungy
Chelsea Wagenaar
Maggie Smith
William Carlos Williams
Taylor Johnson
Dawn Lundy Martin
Danielle Mitchell (host of The Poetry Lab Podcast)
