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Crafting Surprising Images within Medical Intervention Poetry
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A creative prompt inspired by Georges Perec’s An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris
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The struggle for social justice remembered through poetry.
- Glossary TermsA love poem or song welcoming or lamenting the arrival of the dawn. The form originated in medieval France. See John Donne’s “The Sun Rising” and Louise Bogan’s “Leave...
Poem Guides
Poem GuideBy Remica Bingham-RisherWhat do we uncover when we try to salvage history?
Poem GuideBy Julie IrigarayA hymn to female independence in the form of a withering critique of marriage
Poem GuideBy Peter O’LearyOne of the most famous poems in English, one of the first encounters readers have with modern poetry—and may have even invented modern poetry.