Books written by Robin Behn

  • Once Upon a Time in the Twenty-First Century: Unexpected Exercises in Creative Writing
    Once Upon a Time in the Twenty-First Century: Unexpected Exercises in Creative Writing

    Designed to appeal to a wide range of readers and writers - from teenagers to young adults, from grade nine through college and beyond - this volume of exercises is of inestimable value to students and teachers in the traditional classroom, ...

  • The Yellow House

    Poetry. "In the allegorical world of Robin Behn's marvelous THE YELLOW HOUSE, the landscape and thecharacters and the sequence of events enact the very fact and drama of human language andhuman voice.

  • Horizon Note
    Horizon Note

    In language dense and clear, playful and somber, and with a formal exactitude and emotional amplitude suggestive of her own musical training, Behn traverses these horizons “extracting,” like the horizon note that drones through ...

  • Paper Bird
    Paper Bird

    The images of this book connect to each other with the logic and authority of dreams, the reader's dreams as well as the writer's. This is a beautifully crafted, deeply felt book. —Linda Pastan

  • The Practice of Poetry: Writing Exercises From Poets Who Teach
    The Practice of Poetry: Writing Exercises From Poets Who Teach

    A distinctive collection of more than 90 effective poetry-writing exercises combined with corresponding essays to inspire writers of all levels.

  • The Red Hour: Poems
    The Red Hour: Poems

    The Red Hour: Poems

  • The Red Hour: Poems

    It is Robin Behn's breakthrough collection. --Edward Hirsch What has blossomed here is sure promise: these are bold, blood-red, profound poems. --Carol Muske.

  • Quarry Cross
    Quarry Cross

    She writes of the beauty and potential festering of desire. However serious her subject matter, the marvelous vitality of her voice summons us to the prospect of pleasure. These are bold, mutinous, world-and-word-enchanted poems.

  • Requiem for the Innocent: El Paso and Beyond
    Requiem for the Innocent: El Paso and Beyond

    A provocative and somber tribute to those who lost their lives and were injured in the mass shooting in El Paso.

  • Practice of Poetry

    A distinctive collection of more than 90 effective poetry-writing exercises combined with corresponding essays to inspire writers of all levels.