8 Agents Who Represent Poets

For the last several years, I’ve periodically taught a publishing industry course for the graduate creative writing program at Northwestern University’s School of Professional Studies, of which I’m faculty director. 

One of the assignments is an agent query letter, pitching either a work-in-progress or a manuscript the student hopes to write in the near future.

My sense is that this assignment is among the most useful for students, in part because query letters strike them as residing somewhere between “tedious task” and “necessary evil” on the writing-life spectrum. 

An agent query letter generally contains these components: 

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