Teens

Whenever a guest drops by unexpectedly, my eye goes to the pile of mail on the counter, the tumbleweeds of dog hair roaming freely across the kitchen floor from our...

As a visiting teaching artist for the Poetry Foundation, I facilitated a workshop titled “GLYPH-cation! Learn & Create Hybrid Poetry.” We created graphic poems and also explored how visual elements...

Read or listen to Kimiko Hahn’s poem, “Likeness: A Self-Portrait,” several times. A few questions you might consider, either in writing or in conversation with others: The title instructs us to...

Read Douglas Kearney’s poem “Every Hard Rapper’s Father Ever: Father of the Year.” Then, listen to the poet reading this poem out loud at least once. A few questions you...

What I didn’t know before reading Ada Limón’s What I Didn’t Know Before is where research—scientific, philosophical, historical, or any other kind—belongs in the poetry writing process. What I learned after...

The roots of the word exhibition are instructive: from ex "out" + habere "to hold." An exhibition holds out a particular narrative, a thesis, and framing of a subject. A...

Look closely at a typical map, and you will notice that it is covered in language—the names of countries, types of rivers, cardinal directions. Language helps shape geography and vice...

Read “Apology” by Sharon Olds several times, out loud or silently. Questions to consider, on your own in writing, or in discussion with others: What is the connection between the mice and...

Read “LeaveTaking” by Rita Dove several times, out loud or silently, or listen to Dove reading the poem. Questions to consider, on your own in writing, or in discussion with others: This...

Ekphrastic poetry, when a poem works to describe or evoke another work of art, is one of the most ancient modes of poetry. Most often associated with visual art, ekphrastic...