From the magazine:Ballad-ish: On Common Meter
There’s something fundamental—like a heartbeat or a nursery rhyme—about the beating, ballad-ish quatrain.

Explore tools for your classroom, including poem guides and essays on form.
There’s something fundamental—like a heartbeat or a nursery rhyme—about the beating, ballad-ish quatrain.

It seemed to me a kind of magic to take a made thing and make it almost unrecognizably new.

Writing Prompt: Erasure
Allow yourself to be nervous. Allow yourself to doubt the work you’re doing even as you’re doing it.

More Than a Failed Essay: On the Prose Poem
Navigating Audience, Orientalism, and Family Mythology Beyond the Binary.

Writing Prompt: Prose Poem
Write your own “failed essay.” Call it a prose poem instead.