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Featured Content
Opening the luminous door in your writing.
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Poem GuideBy Austin Allen
When polite prejudice makes for scathing satire.
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Glossary Term
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Article for TeachersBy Judy Rowe Michaels
Students venture out into the world to discover their own true love, then return to share it.
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Article for StudentsBy Hannah Brooks-Motl
Poems that serve as letters to the world.
Podcasts
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AudioFrom Poetry LecturesDecember 2012
An informal conversation remembering the life and work of Elizabeth Bishop, with Lloyd Schwartz, Frank Bidart, Rosanna Warren, Gail Mazur, and Megan Marshall. Conducted at Harvard University in March 2012,...
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AudioFrom Essential American PoetsSeptember 2011
Recordings of poet Adrienne Rich, with an introduction to her life and work. Recorded in 2002 at the Audio Workshop in London
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AudioFrom Poetry LecturesJune 2013
Vera Pavlova from Russia and Valzhyna Mort from Belurus speak with the director of the Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute, Ilya Kaminsky.
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Featured Poet: Sylvia Plath
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Sylvia Plath was one of the most dynamic and admired poets of the 20th century. By the time she took her life at the age of 30, Plath already had...
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Poem GuideBy Katherine Robinson
The creation of life and the masterful merging of metaphor and reality.
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AudioFrom Poetry Off the ShelfMarch 2016
The legacy of Plath's posthumous classic
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AudioFrom Poetry Off the ShelfJanuary 2008
Burning at a hundred and three with Sylvia Plath.
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AudioFrom Poetry Off the ShelfMarch 2018
The second episode of our special series exploring poetry and the women's movement looks at several books in the 1960s and '70s that fought for a place for women.
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Poet 101's
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Poem SamplerBy The Editors
A once unsung poet rises to prominence 100 years after his death.
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Poem SamplerBy Benjamin Voigt
An introduction to the work of a leading poet.
