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  • Learning Prompt
    By Nathan Xavier Osorio November 21, 2023

    “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...

  • Learning Prompt
    By Megan Fernandes October 18, 2023

    In 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...

  • Learning Prompt
    By Maggie Queeney October 12, 2023

    Read 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...

  • Learning Prompt
    By Maggie Queeney October 12, 2023

    Read 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...

  • Learning Prompt
    By Samira Asma-Sadeque September 14, 2023

    What 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 Prompt
    By Maggie Queeney September 14, 2023

    The 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...

  • Learning Prompt
    By Giulia Ottavia Frattini September 7, 2023

    “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...

  • Learning Prompt
    By Wendy Chen August 15, 2023

    “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...

  • Learning Prompt
    By Hua Xi August 2, 2023

    Look 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...

  • Learning Prompt
    By Maggie Queeney July 18, 2023

    Sandra 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 if...

  • Learning Prompt
    By Maggie Queeney July 18, 2023

    Read 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...

  • Learning Prompt
    By Maggie Queeney July 13, 2023

    Read “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...