Poetry Magazine Discussion Guides
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December 2009
Strange encounters of the poetic kind in the December issue of Poetry. READ THE CURRENT ISSUE »
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Past Guides
Engaging the Senses
September 2009
This discussion guide provides suggestions and questions to get readers started exploring the September ...
The World in Poetry
April 2009
Each April, Poetry magazine devotes its pages exclusively to poetry in translation, bringing its ...
Finding the Subject
December 2008
Sometimes a poem’s subject is obvious: it has a story to tell, an incident to relate, or an anecdote ...
Telling it Slant
April 2008
What are the different ways a poem can deal with death? How is a poem like (and not like) a song? In what ...
The Political and the Poetic
April 2007
How does poetry fit into different political and social realities around the world? How do different poets ...
What is—and is not—lost in translation
April 2006
Can we reconcile what is being said in a poem with how it is being said? Is there a difference between the ...
