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

Poetry Society of America

FavoritePoem.org