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  • Article for Students

    How to Make a Poem

    By CM Burroughs
    The journey from idea to draft.
    Image of a pencil and blank paper on a table.
  • Article for Students

    The Choice of Constraint

    By Rebecca Hazelton
    How not getting to do everything leads to doing what you want.
    Image of a rusted fence breaking into birds flying away.
  • Article for Students

    Why Write in Form?

    By Rebecca Hazelton
    Mastering the traditional ways to forge new ones.
    Image of triangle pattern engraved on a marble floor
  • Article for Students

    The Image List

    By Michael McGriff
    Starting with images rather than words can help show an experience, instead of telling it.
    Photo of post-it notes of assorted colors sticking on a whiteboard.
  • Article for Students

    Learning the Sonnet

    By Rachel Richardson
    A history and how-to guide to the famous form.
    Image of encyclopedia excerpt, depicting several examples of geometric shapes and designs.
  • Article for Students

    The Pursuit of Form

    By Robert Pinsky
    Learning to make effective shapes and arrangements of energy, rather than particular required patterns.
    Painting of "Burg and Sonne" (cropped) by Paul Klee
  • Article for Students

    Freedom in Poetry

    By Robert Pinsky
    Freedom is where the artist begins: there are no rules, and the principles and habits are up to you.
    Finger painting of balloons and hand prints.
  • Article for Students

    How to Read a Poem

    By Edward Hirsch
    A poetry primer for the uninitiated.
    Illustration of two people reading surrounded by flowers.
  • Article for Students

    Escape Artists

    By Rachel Richardson
    Working with non-traditional students, and finding poetry in prison.
    Image of the inside of a correctional facility
  • Article for Students

    Heartland

    By Edward Hirsch
    Poems are like messages in a bottle sent out with little hope of finding a recipient. Those of us who find and read poems become their unknown addresses.
  • Article for Students

    Help Me, O Heavenly Muse

    By Edward Hirsch
    Where does a poem come from? The sources of inspiration are many, from reason to a touch of madness.
  • Article for Students

    The Wave Always Returns

    By Edward Hirsch
    A poem moves like a wave, dissolving the literal, and we experience its flow as it moves from the eye to the ear.
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