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"Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary." 
- Jessamyn West

Access Copyright
http://www.accesscopyright.ca

Art Bar
http://www.artbar.org

Catherine Graham
http://catherinegraham.com

Drew Hayden Taylor
http://www.drewhaydentaylor.com

Eden Mills Writers' Festival
http://www.edenmillswritersfestival.ca

Hamilton Poetry Centre
http://www.hamiltonpoetrycentre.blogspot.com

Hamilton Public Library
http://www.myhamilton.ca/public-library

International Women's Writing Guild (IWWG)
http://www.iwwg.com

Internet Public Library
http://www.ipl.org

Unique book & ISBN database
ISBNdb.com

Leaf Press
http://www.leafpress.ca

League of Canadian Poets
http://www.poets.ca

Library and Archives Canada
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/index-e.html

Library of Congress
http://lcweb.loc.gov/homepage/lchp.html

Lit Live
http://litlive.blogspot.com

Native Women In The Arts
http://www.nativewomeninthearts.com

Passion Among The Cacti Press
http://www.patcp.netfirms.com

Patchy Squirrel
http://www.patchysquirrel.ca

Quills
http://www.quillspoetry.com/index.html

Stellar Connexions
http://www.stellarconnexions.ca

The Book Band
http://www.thebookband.com

The Toronto Small Press Group
http://www.torontosmallpressbookfair.org

Toronto Public Library
http://www.tpl.toronto.on.ca

Tower Poetry Society (TPS)
http://towerpoetry.ca

Wikipedia's List of Canadian Poets
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Canadian_poets

World Literacy of Canada
http://www.worldlit.ca

Writer's Digest
http://www.writersdigest.com

Writing Your Way by Ellen Jaffe
http://writingyourway.blogspot.com

Lit Book List

Writing Personal Poetry: Creating Poems from Your Life Experiences
 by Sheila Bender
 ISBN 0898798132

Fruitflesh: Seeds of Inspiration for Women Who Write
by Gayle Brandeis
ISBN 0060587180
I highly recommend this book. It's a treat! Gayle's tasteful metaphors and well chosen excerpts from other fruitful writers can get your creative juices flowing. - April A. Severin

Writing As Witness: Essay and Talk
by Beth Brant
ISBN 0-88961-200-5

Writing Past Dark: Envy, Fear, Distraction and Other Dilemmas in the Writer's Life
by Bonnie Friedman
ISBN 006016607X

Wild Mind: Living The Writer's Life
by Natalie Goldberg
ISBN 0-553-34775-6
"Being a writer is a whole way of life, a way of seeing, thinking, being.  
Writers hand on what they know." - Natalie Goldberg

Writing Down The Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
by Natalie Goldberg
ISBN 0877733759 (pbk)

A Magical Clockwork: The Art of Writing The Poem
by Susan Ioannou
ISBN 0-920835-12-0
Poetry is an art often clouded in mystery. Now A Magical Clockwork reveals the subtle mechanisms that make a poem tick. From the persona, through the graphic and unifying functions of image and symbol, to line, pattern, metre, free verse, rhyme, and tone, it shares the secrets behind inspiration and good writing, not just for today, but in the larger context of the twentieth century and the new millennium. With illustrations from our own talented poets, A Magical Clockwork stands uniquely, proudly Canadian, a boon to readers and poets alike. - Wordwrights Canada

Writing Your Way: Creating A Personal Journal
by Ellen Jaffe
ISBN 1-894549-04-X

Writing Lifestories ... and Other Fictions: A Book About Natural Creativity,
Original Expression, and the Transformative Power of Stories
by Martyn Kendrick
ISBN 0968275109

Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
by Anne Lamott
ISBN 0679435204
"A gift to all of us mortals who write or ever wanted to write ... sidesplittingly funny,
patiently wise and alternatively cranky and kind - a reveille to get off our duffs and
start writing now, while we still can."
- Seattle Times
"Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying
to get a report on birds written that he'd had three months to write. [It] was due
the next day.  We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at
the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder, paper and pencils and
unopened books on birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. 
Then my father sat down beside him, put his arm around my brother's shoulder,
and said, 'Bird by bird, buddy.  Just take it bird by bird.'"
- Anne Lamott
"The very first thing I tell my new students on the first day of a workshop is
that good writing is about telling the truth.  We are a species that needs and
wants to understand who we are." - Anne Lamott

Wordstruck
by Robert MacNeil
ISBN 0-14-010401-1
"Written with perception, candor, and humour, this memoir revolves around
the premise that poetry is a fact of life, as the news of the world is." 
- Eudora Welty

Write Your Heart Out: Exploring & Expressing What Matters To You
by Rebecca McClanahan
ISBN 1-58297-006-8

How to Write: Advice And Reflections
by Richard Rhodes
ISBN- 0-688-14948-0
"This is a remarkable work of self-revelation ... . How generous [Rhodes] is
with his mind and heart.  Buy this book, buy it.  It's a handbook on how to live."
- The Washington Post

Poemcrazy: Freeing your life with words
by Susan G. Wooldridge
ISBN 0-517-70370-X
"This is a wonderful book, smart, wide-eyed, joyful, helpful, inspiring.  You're going
to love it and writing poetry more for having read it." 
- Anne Lamott, Author of Bird by Bird
"I invite you to drop a line into the pool of words around you and within you
begin making poems that express more than words can say, an act Allen Ginsberg
calls 'ordinary magic'." 
- Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge

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