Adults
Poetry education for lifelong learners.
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Poem GuideBy Tyler Malone
For a poem about the brevity of every state of being, the single octave perfectly enacts its themes through its form.
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collectionBy Adam O. Davis
Poetry, like the movie theater, is built out of dark and light. The ink and the page. The room and the screen.
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Learning PromptBy Kameryn Alexa Carter June 10, 2024
I was grateful to devise and facilitate a workshop called “Standing Outside Myself: The Black Ecstatic.” I began by drawing on ecstasy’s etymology as a framework for our thinking—the idea...
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Poem GuideBy Sarah Arvio
Metaphor in Lorca is a form of gorgeous shorthand.
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Prose from Poetry MagazineBy Michael Frazier
On writing persona poetry.
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Learning PromptBy T S Leonard April 10, 2024
In 1954, on a small coral atoll in the Pacific Ocean, the United States detonated a weapon designed to annihilate every living thing in its path. That year, Frank O’Hara...
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Poem GuideBy Heather Green
Silence and speech in post-war France
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Poem GuideBy Eric Weiskott
A melancholy medieval rent collector’s sorrows, scribbled on the back of a legal document
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Learning PromptBy Gabriela Denise Frank February 28, 2024
The poet Ruth Stone is known for sensing a poem thundering at her over the landscape and running like hell for home to write it down. Sometimes, she’d catch it...
