Creating Sonnet Cycles

Dawn Potter, instructor One of the peculiarities of my trajectory as a poet is the extent to which I’ve been influenced by prose writers, especially the great psychological novelists of the nineteenth...

The Conference on Poetry & Learning invites educators, teaching artists, and other poetry advocates to work intensely with their colleagues and a faculty of distinguished poets who are experts in both...

as the late noise of traffic, of shrill birdsong, dies away, do I always recall those brief summers, when the old folks reclined in the grass on the hill

The Conference on Poetry & Learning invites educators, teaching artists, and other poetry advocates to work intensely with their colleagues and a faculty of distinguished poets who are experts in both...

The Conference on Poetry & Learning invites educators, teaching artists, and other poetry advocates to work intensely with their colleagues and a faculty of distinguished poets who are experts in both...

A few week's ago Vox Populi  published my poem " To the Republic ," a poem I wrote in (sort of) response to Horace's ode of the same name . ...

Those last moments, before the sun drops behind the hills, you linger, not yet yourself—no darkness, no stars— still waiting, waiting for the curtain to sigh shut

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The Conference on Poetry & Learning invites educators, teaching artists, and other poetry advocates to work intensely with their colleagues and a faculty of distinguished poets who are experts in both...

I pretend I am living in a faraway city, somewhere in Europe, where doves coo in the bell towers and a woman in heels click-clicks over the cobblestones, walking, walking late into the night.

The Conference on Poetry & Learning invites educators, teaching artists, and other poetry advocates to work intensely with their colleagues and a faculty of distinguished poets who are experts in both...