Poetry Magazine
Poetry Magazine Discussion Guides
Previous Discussion Guides
February 2011 On the Poetry Beat The February issue provides an opportunity to explore the connections between poetry ...
January 2011 Outside In Is there a right way to read a poem?
December 2010 The Sun and Shadows Questions and answers in the December issue of Poetry.
September 2010 Verticism Dizzying highs in the September issue of Poetry.
April 2010 Call and Response Everything you wanted to know about poetry but were afraid to ask.
December 2009 In Search of Estrangement Strange encounters of the poetic kind in the December issue of Poetry.
September 2009 Engaging the Senses This discussion guide provides suggestions and questions to get readers started ...
April 2009 The World in Poetry Each April, Poetry magazine devotes its pages exclusively to poetry in ...
December 2008 Finding the Subject Sometimes a poem’s subject is obvious: it has a story to tell, an incident to ...
April 2008 Telling it Slant What are the different ways a poem can deal with death? How is a poem like (and not ...
April 2007 The Political and the Poetic How does poetry fit into different political and social realities around the world? ...
April 2006 What is—and is not—lost in translation Can we reconcile what is being said in a poem with how it is being said? Is there a ...
