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Essays and writing prompts related to poetic forms from many historical and contemporary traditions.
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- ArticleBy Ide Amari Thompson
- ArticleBy Olga Maslova
For those who work daily in art, theater, and writing, inspiration is not the mysterious visitation of a scantily clad muse in a floating Doric chiton; it is simply the last visible step of an organized process.
- ArticleFrom the magazine:Ballad-ish: On Common MeterBy Lindsay Turner
There’s something fundamental—like a heartbeat or a nursery rhyme—about the beating, ballad-ish quatrain.
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-VirtualA generative writing workshop, “Let Me Turn Towards You: On the Possibilities of the Second Person,” created and led by Aishvarya Arora
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-VirtualThe final series of generative workshops in the Forms & Features series with Maggie Queeney, celebrating the image, the sensual description evoking the physical world…
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-VirtualA discussion of My Perfect Cognate by Natalie Scenters-Zapico
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On Heartbreak: The Beautiful Half of a Golden Hurt
By Willie PerdomoI’ve heard it said that if poets are not writing about death, they’re not writing about anything; the same could be said for love.
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-VirtualA discussion of The Essential C.D. Wright by C.D. Wright
- Events-Poetry FoundationA generative art-making workshop, “Waves in Your Atmosphere,” with Victoria Martinez.
- Events-Poetry FoundationA monthly gathering to read and write in community
- Events-Poetry FoundationA generative poetry workshop, “The Code to the Ode: A Celebratory Stance in Your Poems,” created and led by Allison Joseph
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-VirtualA generative writing workshop, “Aporia: Towards a Poetics of Questioning,” created and led by Imogen Osborne.
- Events-VirtualThis generative poetry workshop led by Maggie Queeney explores the villanelle, an intricate, rhymed French form rooted in Italian folk songs.
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-VirtualA generative writing workshop, “Romani Poetics, Oral Tradition, and Narrative,” created and led by Jezmina Von Thiele