Helena Nelson blogs about reading submissions and gives a few tips on how to submit to competitions.

www.happenstancepress.org/index.php/blog/entry/and-the-stanzas-went-in-two-by-two

Carole Bromley, founder of the York Stanza, describes how she set up the group and what she has learned about making it work.

www.poetrysociety.org.uk/content/membership/stanzas/setupstanza

The Poetry Society's expanding series of fascinating exchanges between Poetry Review editors and contributors,

past and present, as they explore ideas and issues generated by the issue.

www.poetrysociety.org.uk/content/publications/review/prpod/

Kate Noakes, poet and performer, gives her top tips on how NOT to read at an event:

http://boomslangpoetry.blogspot.fr/2014/06/how-not-to-give-poetry-reading.html

Kate Welsh, poet and performer, gives her top tips on what NOT to do when organising poetry events

http://boomslangpoetry.blogspot.fr/2014/07/how-not-to-organise-poetry-reading.html

Poetry, perhaps more than any other form of writing, delves deep into emotions and rhythm plays a big part in evoking those feelings.

www.npr.org/2014/06/20/323329319/how-rhythm-carries-a-poem-from-head-to-heart

Camille T Dungy at Poetry Foundation on how to write a wise poem

www.poetryfoundation.org/article/247926

William Logan of the New York Times, argues for poetry in every day life.

www.nytimes.com/2014/06/15/sunday-review/poetry-who-needs-it

Rattle's mission is to promote the practice of poetry.

www.rattle.com

CAMPUS is a community-driven online platform bringing together poets from all over the globe. It’s free to join and open to poets of all levels, from beginners to pros, from all backgrounds.

http://campus.poetryschool.com/

Sidekick Books offers up the first of their fixes:

sidekickbooks.blogspot.hk

Paul Muldoon is one the foremost contemporary Irish poets. He has more than 30 anthologies of poetry under his name and has won

numerous awards including the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. He has worked at a number of universities and has now

been appointed as distinguished professor within the department of English and creative writing at Lancaster University.

He takes up his position in September.

www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/people/qa-with-paul-muldoon/2013671.article