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Poets.org features more than 400 prose pieces, including essays and interviews. Sign up for the Poets.org Update to receive monthly e-mail updates, including news about the poets, poems, and features most recently added to Poets.org. |
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Poems for Every Occasion
Find articles about poetry organized by topic, including Poems for Weddings, Love Poems, or Poems about War, among others.
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Poetic Schools & Movements
Find articles on an array of movements, including the Beats, the Harlem Renaissance, and the Objectivists, among others.
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Poetic Forms & Techniques
Or browse articles about a variety of forms from around the world, including the Ghazal, the Renga, the Sestina, and much more.
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Poetry Debates & Manifestos
Thirty-one younger American poets write about the great debates and manifestos that have shaped our poetry landscape. |
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Groundbreaking Books
A showcase of masterpieces in American poetry that have influenced—or promise to influence—generations of poets. |
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On Writing & Craft
Some of poetry's most celebrated practitioners explore the topics essential to the vocation. |
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Great Poetry Anthologies
Highlighting a host of anthologies, from those celebrating a group or theme to those that span the breadth of contemporary poetry. |
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Literary Landmarks
An array of historical and cultural sites across the country where poetry was created or inspired. |
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Poetry & Music
Explorations on the rich crossroads between poetry and music, including essays on musicians and poets as well as auteurs who straddle both worlds. |
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Poetry & Art
Examinations of ekphrastic poems, collaborative projects, and the fusion between poetry and the visual arts. |
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Poetry in Film, Radio & TV
Essays on the role of poetry—whether a leading part or a walk-on—in popular films, television shows, and radio broadcasts. |
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Online Poetry Resources
A full range of resources to satisfy the poet's curiosity, including multimedia archives and continuously expanding exhibits. |
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Most Popular Essays |
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Poetry and Ambition by Donald Hall
I see no reason to spend your life writing poems unless your goal is to write great poems.
Committed to Memory by John Hollander
This is a gathering of a hundred-and-some poems chosen specifically for memorization.
Serious Play: Reading Poetry with Children
It is a simple fact that some children are more drawn to words and literature than others.
Bob Dylan: "I'm a poet, and I know it"
The problem many critics have with calling song lyrics poetry is that songs are only fully realized in performance. |
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Newest Essays Added to Poets.org |
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Finding the Phenomenal Oppen
by Forrest Gander
"For me, bolting from college in 1978 with a degree in geology, Oppen's phenomenological poetics was revelatory."
Elegy and Eros: David Baker on Dickinson and Whitman
"The issue is not just why we grieve in poetry, nor how the beautiful song of poetry capitulates to or conspires with the task of weeping. These and more."
Sincerity and Inventions: On Robert Frost
by Carol Frost
"The source work behind some of Frost's poems may provide answers to the question of sincerity and honesty."
Contradictory Classicists: Frank Bidart and Louise Glück
by Rosanna Warren
"For each of them, the transfiguration of personal raw material occurs, not in traditional prosodic shapes, but in a shapeliness sought for in each new process of composition."
My Friend Hayden
by Wendell Berry
"Hayden Carruth's idea of a livable life is a life that has affection in it—a life, to give it the fullest scope of his art, in which the things you love are properly praised and properly mourned."
Clarity and Obscurity: Carl Phillips, Kay Ryan & James Tate in Conversation
by Sven Birkerts
"Difficulty bears directly on the question of meaning. Indeed, I would say that difficulty is the friction that accompanies all the attempts we make on meaning."
Personism: A Manifesto
by Frank O'Hara
"Personism, a movement which I recently founded and which nobody knows about, interests me a great deal, being so totally opposed to this kind of abstract removal that it is verging on a true abstraction..."
Poems for Times of Turmoil
"Poetry can provide solace, give voice to despair, restore optimism, or simply remind us of our common connection through words."
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