Adults Learning Prompts Not Too Hard to Master Learning PromptLet Me Turn Toward You: On the Possibilities of the Second Person By Aishvarya AroraApril 21, 2026Learning PromptWriting in the Rhythm: Syncopation and the Oral Tradition in the Caribbean By Ide Amari ThompsonFebruary 17, 2026Learning PromptRomani Poetics, Oral Tradition, Narrative, and Survival TradesBy Jezmina Von ThieleFebruary 10, 2026Learning PromptAporia: Toward a Poetics of QuestioningBy Imogen OsborneFebruary 3, 2026Explore all Learning Prompts Featured Content CollectionPoetry and the Civil Rights MovementBy The EditorsThe struggle for social justice remembered through poetry.Glossary TermsAubadeA love poem or song welcoming or lamenting the arrival of the dawn. View In Glossary EssaySpring AheadBy Annie FinchPoets have a close relationship to this tender season.Essay on Poetic TheorySome Notes on Organic FormBy Denise LevertovPoem Guides Poem Guidesam sax: “LISP”By Jeffrey CareyvaJanuary 11, 2021A queer childhood and the demand to “sound straight.”Poem Guide“Fragment Thirty-six” by H.D. & SapphoBy Dan Beachy-QuickNovember 14, 2024Translation as PermissionPoem GuideAriana Brown: “A Division of Gods”By Remica Bingham-RisherSeptember 5, 2024What do we uncover when we try to salvage history?
Learning PromptLet Me Turn Toward You: On the Possibilities of the Second Person By Aishvarya AroraApril 21, 2026
Learning PromptWriting in the Rhythm: Syncopation and the Oral Tradition in the Caribbean By Ide Amari ThompsonFebruary 17, 2026
Learning PromptRomani Poetics, Oral Tradition, Narrative, and Survival TradesBy Jezmina Von ThieleFebruary 10, 2026
CollectionPoetry and the Civil Rights MovementBy The EditorsThe struggle for social justice remembered through poetry.
Glossary TermsAubadeA love poem or song welcoming or lamenting the arrival of the dawn. View In Glossary
Poem Guidesam sax: “LISP”By Jeffrey CareyvaJanuary 11, 2021A queer childhood and the demand to “sound straight.”
Poem Guide“Fragment Thirty-six” by H.D. & SapphoBy Dan Beachy-QuickNovember 14, 2024Translation as Permission
Poem GuideAriana Brown: “A Division of Gods”By Remica Bingham-RisherSeptember 5, 2024What do we uncover when we try to salvage history?