Close Reading Resources
Close Reading advice from Dr. Kip Wheeler
Close Reading advice from Reed College
Prose
Prose Example Heart of Darkness
Atlantic Monthly "A Close Read": Google the following search string by copy/pasting into the search box:
allintitle: "a close read" site:www.theatlantic.com/
Poetry
Poets.org Writings about poetry
Close Read of Whitman's "Brooklyn Ferry"
Modern American Poetry See Poets section. Any article title containing "On" and a poem title, as in "On Crossing Brooklyn Ferry," is likely to contain some close reading.
PoemTalk Audio roundtable discussions of contemporary poetry
Glossary of Poetic Terms from Representative Poetry Online