Adults
Begin in delight, end in wisdom.
When my children were small, they always asked me to tell them a story to delay naptime as much as possible. They also wanted made-up characters and adventures. Most of...
Writing Activities
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Learning PromptBy Michael Frazier
As a visiting teaching artist for the Poetry Foundation, I facilitated a workshop titled “Pecha Kucha, Low Coup, Hyperbolic Time Chamber,” which...
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Learning PromptBy Christiana Castillo
Poetry has been a source of my own healing. With the Forms & Features workshop “All about Self Love” I led, I...
Featured Content
The struggle for social justice remembered through poetry.
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Essay on Poetic TheoryBy Denise Levertov 1965
For me, back of the idea of organic form is the concept that there is a form in all things (and in our experience) which the poet can discover and...
Poem Guides
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Poem GuideBy Julie IrigarayA hymn to female independence in the form of a withering critique of marriage
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Poem GuideBy Tyler Malone
Who are all these people? Where is this waste land they inhabit? What is this chaos of impressions we are privy to? Wherefore such madness?
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Poem GuideBy CM Burroughs
There is lightness within these downtrodden lives!
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