Poem Guides
Poem Guides
Poem GuideBy Scott ChallenerThis short poem about dreams is one of the most influential poems of the 20th century.
Poem GuideBy Hannah Brooks-MotlA Modern poet’s message and her mediums.
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- Poem GuideBy Remica Bingham-RisherWhat do we uncover when we try to salvage history?
- Poem GuideBy Peter O’Leary
One of the most famous poems in English, one of the first encounters readers have with modern poetry—and may have even invented modern poetry.
- Poem GuideBy Tyler MaloneFor a poem about the brevity of every state of being, the single octave perfectly enacts its themes through its form.
- Poem GuideBy Sarah ArvioMetaphor in Lorca is a form of gorgeous shorthand.
- Poem GuideBy Eric WeiskottA melancholy medieval rent collector’s sorrows, scribbled on the back of a legal document
- Poem GuideBy Shanta LeeRace, Class, Gender, and the Imperial Body
- Poem GuideBy CM BurroughsThere is lightness within these downtrodden lives!
- Poem GuideBy Annie FinchWhat does it mean if a poem is “neither pro nor con abortion”?
- Poem GuideBy Julie IrigarayA hymn to female independence in the form of a withering critique of marriage
- Poem GuideBy Tyler MaloneWho are all these people? Where is this waste land they inhabit? What is this chaos of impressions we are privy to? Wherefore such madness?
- Poem GuideBy Kristi MaxwellAre these pieces translations, inventions, or interventions that add to a story that has been lost to us?
- Poem GuideBy Austin AllenWhen polite prejudice makes for scathing satire.
- Poem GuideBy Christopher SpaideA letter, a list, a sonnet, and the state of a nation.
- Poem GuideBy Austin AllenBridging two languages and generations in one intricate poem.
- Poem GuideBy Scott ChallenerThis short poem about dreams is one of the most influential poems of the 20th century.
- Poem GuideBy Austin AllenHow a poem about a rural stone wall quickly became part of debates on nationalism, international borders, and immigration.
- Poem GuideBy Austin AllenFamily, culture, and history converge in a deft poetic portrait.
