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- Learning PromptBy T S LeonardIn 1954, on a small coral atoll in the Pacific Ocean, the United States detonated a weapon designed to annihilate every living thing in its path. That year, Frank O’Hara wrote “Meditations in an ...
- Learning PromptBy Gabriela Denise FrankThe poet Ruth Stone is known for sensing a poem thundering at her over the landscape and running like hell for home to write it down. Sometimes, she’d catch it by the tail; other times, she’d miss...
- Learning PromptBy Sarah Ann WinnWhenever a guest drops by unexpectedly, my eye goes to the pile of mail on the counter, the tumbleweeds of dog hair roaming freely across the kitchen floor from our little pack, the coat thrown carelessly...
- Learning PromptBy Naoko FujimotoAs a visiting teaching artist for the Poetry Foundation, I facilitated a workshop titled “GLYPH-cation! Learn & Create Hybrid Poetry.” We created graphic poems and also explored how visual elements...
- Learning PromptBy Nathan Xavier Osorio“Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.”—James BaldwinWriting poems can be the articulation of a kind of listening. We listen to the poems we’ve dog-eared in our favorite books to learn new...
- Learning PromptBy Megan FernandesIn college, I would count the syllables in my sentences. Turns out, I run between 18 and 22 syllables per sentence unconsciously. Didn’t matter if the paper was about evolutionary biology or circular...
- Learning PromptBy Maggie QueeneyRead Douglas Kearney’s poem “Every Hard Rapper’s Father Ever: Father of the Year.” Then, listen to the poet reading this poem out loud at least once. A few questions you might consider, either in...
- Learning PromptBy Maggie QueeneyRead or listen to Kimiko Hahn’s poem, “Likeness: A Self-Portrait,” several times. A few questions you might consider, either in writing or in conversation with others: The title instructs us to read...
- Learning PromptBy Maggie QueeneyThe roots of the word exhibition are instructive: from ex "out" + habere "to hold." An exhibition holds out a particular narrative, a thesis, and framing of a subject. A visitor can choose to accept what an exhibition offers,...
- Learning PromptBy Samira Asma-SadequeWhat I didn’t know before reading Ada Limón’s What I Didn’t Know Before is where research—scientific, philosophical, historical, or any other kind—belongs in the poetry writing process.What I learned after...
- Learning PromptBy Giulia Ottavia Frattini“Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.”Roland BarthesIt was an unevenly sultry summer day, during...
- Learning PromptBy Wendy Chen“Which of us has not,” writes Charles Baudelaire in the introduction to Paris Spleen, “in his moments of ambition, dreamed the miracle of a poetic prose, musical without rhythm or rime, sufficiently supple...
- Learning PromptBy Hua XiLook closely at a typical map, and you will notice that it is covered in language—the names of countries, types of rivers, cardinal directions. Language helps shape geography and vice versa. For ...
- Learning PromptBy Maggie QueeneyRead Juan Felipe Herrera’s “Punk Half Panther” out loud at least twice. Keep a list of any language that stands out as you read and listen.Questions to consider, on your own in writing, or in discussion...
- Learning PromptBy Maggie QueeneySandra Cisneros, when speaking about her poetry-writing practice during a long pause between published collections, describes the liberation in writing for the self: “Poems were to be written as ...
- Learning PromptBy Maggie QueeneyRead “Apology” by Sharon Olds several times, out loud or silently.Questions to consider, on your own in writing, or in discussion with others: What is the connection between the mice and the speaker...
- Learning PromptBy Maggie QueeneyRead “LeaveTaking” by Rita Dove several times, out loud or silently, or listen to Dove reading the poem.Questions to consider, on your own in writing, or in discussion with others: This poem starts...