Adults
Poetry education for lifelong learners.
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EssayBy Liesl Olson
Harriet Monroe and The Columbian Ode
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EssayBy Melissa Bradshaw & Srikanth Reddy
The Business of Poetry
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EssayBy Meera Alagaraja
Women’s Rights and Spirituality at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair
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EssayBy Zada Ballew & Kelly Wisecup
Contesting Columbus at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair
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Learning PromptBy Giulia Ottavia Frattini September 7, 2023
“Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles...
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Learning PromptBy Wendy Chen August 15, 2023
“Which of us has not,” writes Charles Baudelaire in the introduction to Paris Spleen, “in his moments of ambition, dreamed the miracle of a poetic prose, musical without rhythm or...
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Poem GuideBy Annie Finch
What does it mean if a poem is “neither pro nor con abortion”?
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Learning PromptBy Hua Xi August 2, 2023
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...
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Learning PromptBy Maggie Queeney July 13, 2023
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...
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Learning PromptBy Maggie Queeney July 13, 2023
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...
