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Resources to learn more about poets, poetry, and the craft of writing.
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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...
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collectionBy Holly Amos, The Editors, Meg Forajter, Lindsay Garbutt, Maggie Queeney & Robert Eric Shoemaker
Educational resources on poetic forms curated by Poetry Foundation staff
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Poem GuideBy Julie Irigaray
A hymn to female independence in the form of a withering critique of marriage
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Prose from Poetry MagazineBy Torrin A. Greathouse
On the generative failures within a text.
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Learning PromptBy Maggie Queeney May 30, 2023
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...
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Learning PromptBy Maggie Queeney May 30, 2023
Read Patti Smith’s “the sheep lady from algiers” out loud, several times. A few questions you might consider, either in writing or with others: What do you notice about the sounds...
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Learning PromptBy Grace (ge) Gilbert May 11, 2023
As a poet, I began my hybrid arts practice with Elmer’s glue, Crayola finger-paints, Microsoft Word, and no formal training. My grandmother was murdered, I needed a form for the...
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Learning PromptBy Maggie Queeney May 9, 2023
In “Papyrus Pantoum,” Arthur Sze composes a complex and powerful landscape through the evocation, repetition, and recombination of vivid and delicately rendered images. Sze uses negative space, located in the...
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collectionBy The Editors
A collection on the work and impact of a legendary poet
