Adults
Poetry education for lifelong learners.
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Learning PromptBy Antoinette Cooper January 13, 2023
“It was a mess in there.” This was how the doctor greeted me when I emerged from the drugged stupor of a traumatic surgery where I had been cut open...
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collectionBy Eric Weiskott
A conversation among Old English, Middle English, and contemporary poems
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Learning PromptBy Sara Elkamel November 28, 2022
for her burning face in my poem beautifully carries the scent of a beloved face that’s missing —“Meaning of Her Absence,”Alejandra Pizarnik, trans. Yvette Siegert, Extracting the Stone of Madness (New Directions, 2016) When naming this workshop...
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Learning PromptBy Christiana Castillo November 18, 2022
Poetry has been a source of my own healing. With the Forms & Features workshop “All about Self Love” I led, I was reminded that poetry has the opportunity to...
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Learning PromptBy Ernest O. Ògúnyẹmí October 10, 2022
To be present and yielded is what prayer is, is what a good poem should be: a presence that is actively conscious, but also unattached, allowing for—to rob Paul Celan...
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Learning PromptBy Cecilia Caballero September 26, 2022
As a poet and teaching artist, my goal is to create more communal spaces of storytelling and social justice for BIPOC folks. I welcome poets of all levels to my...
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Poem GuideBy Kristi Maxwell
Are these pieces translations, inventions, or interventions that add to a story that has been lost to us?
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Learning PromptBy Andrew Venell September 1, 2022
A visual poem is one that must be seen to be fully understood, where the verbal and visual draw strength from each other to produce greater meaning. As such, visual...
