Book Review: William Packard’s The Art of Poetry Writing Didn’t Age Well Into Its 30s.

Anne Marie Wells
7 min readDec 8, 2023

In 1992, William Packard’s The Art of Poetry Writing hit bookstores via St. Martin’s Press. Among his list of accolades in the literary arts, Packard published six volumes of poetry, founded New York Quarterly, and was the vice president of The Poetry Society of America before he passed away in 2002.

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