Come discuss poetry with us. Today’s poem includes the Mohawk Valley.
Poetry Classroom: Directions
Head right through the toothed wheel, through going home, through can’t go home again? It’s Poetry Classroom time.
Poetry Classroom: April Poem
Welcome to this month’s poetry classroom. Today we’re discussing ‘April Poem’ with poet Daniel Bowman.
Poetry Classroom: The Wait
Welcome to this month’s poetry classroom with poet Daniel Bowman. Today we’re discussing plum-haired November.
Poetry Classroom: Walking Through the Dream
Welcome to this month’s poetry classroom with Daniel Bowman. Today we’re discussing walking through the dream of a stranger.
Poetry Classroom: The Night Sky
Welcome to this month’s poetry classroom, with Paula J. Lambert. Today we’re talking about the night sky as a time machine.
Poetry Classroom: Only So Much a Poem
Welcome to this month’s poetry classroom, with Paula J. Lambert. Today’s discussion: “There’s only so much a poem can hold.”
Poetry Classroom: The Hypochondriac’s Question
Welcome to this month’s poetry classroom, with poet Paula J. Lambert, author of The Sudden Seduction of Gravity. Today’s poem “The Hypochondriac’s Question to the Woman with Synesthesia”
Poetry Classroom: The Burden of Too Much Meaning
Welcome to this month’s poetry classroom, with poet Paula J. Lambert, author of The Sudden Seduction of Gravity. We invite you to respond to the poems we’ll share here—their forms, images, sounds, meanings, surprises—ask questions of Paula and each other, and write your own poems along the way. The Burden of Too Much Meaning for […]
Poetry Classroom: My Daughter’s Hair
Welcome to this month’s poetry classroom with Tania Runyan. Today’s poem will leave you wanting red.
Poetry Classroom: Sestina for Brood XIII
We invite you to respond to the poems we’ll share here—their forms, images, sounds, meanings, surprises. Up today? A sestina.
Poetry Classroom: The Goldfish Pond
Welcome to this month’s poetry classroom, with poet Tania Runyan. Up today, the innocence and wisdom of the goldfish pond.
Poetry Classroom: Life Outside
Welcome to this month’s poetry classroom, with poet Tania Runyan, author of A Thousand Vessels and Simple Weight.
Poetry Classroom: A Valediction—Forbidding Mourning
Not exactly what one expects in classical love poetry, to be sure. But hold your horses for this one, because I think this is the greatest love poem ever written.
Poetry Classroom: Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
Welcome to this month’s poetry classroom, with author and literature professor Karen Swallow Prior. Now discussing The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd.
Poetry Classroom: Passionate Shepherd to his Love
Even if you have not read Christopher Marlowe’s famous poem, “The Passionate Shepherd to his Love, ” you probably know its poetry anyway. Really.
Poetry Classroom: Immolation
Welcome to the Poetry Classroom. You are invited to discuss the poem ‘Immolation’—its form, images, sounds, meanings, surprises—and write your own poems along the way.
Poetry Classroom: Shade Half Drawn
In the Poetry Classroom, you are invited to discuss the poems—their forms, images, sounds, meanings, surprises—and write your own poems along the way.
Poetry Classroom: Public Safety Film
In the poetry classroom, you are invited to discuss the poems—their forms, images, sounds, meanings, surprises—and write your own poems along the way.
Poetry Classroom: Hard Road by Li Bai
Li Bai was one of China’s most important poets. Read about his intriguing life and experience one of his insightful, even subtly witty, poems.