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Inspired by Georges Perec’s An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris, this prompt invites thinking about the various ways we might attend to the ordinary around us through creative...

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...

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...

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...

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...

“Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.” —James BaldwinWriting poems can be the articulation of a kind of listening. We listen to the poems we’ve dog-eared in...

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...