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Article for Students

How to Read a Poem

By Edward Hirsch
A poetry primer for the uninitiated.
Article for Teachers

On Listening to Poetry

By Hannah Brooks-Motl
Some new approaches to teaching (the) poetry reading.

Schools and Movements

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    By Noah Baldino & The Editors
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    Sharon Olds: Selections

    By Noah Baldino & The Editors
    “Emotionally scathing” poems by this radical poet of the unsaid
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    Poem Sampler

    Joy Harjo 101

    By Benjamin Voigt
    Sampling the work of this luminary poet and songwriter.

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