Poem Guides
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Poem GuideBy Austin Allen
A sonnet stands tall where the ungoverned waters of literature meet the strict land of law.
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Poem GuideBy Troy Jollimore
A turbulent first love recollected in something like tranquility.
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Poem GuideBy Ange Mlinko
A poet’s poet investigates the power of his readers.
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Poem GuideBy Hannah Brooks-Motl
A poet’s poem from a novelist-poet.
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Poem GuideBy Hannah Brooks-Motl
A 17th-century poet’s project invites its readers to the table
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Poem GuideBy Ange Mlinko
A rapturous re-reading of the poet’s love poem to life.
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Poem GuideBy Joel Brouwer
An intimate glimpse into one of the 20th century’s most fascinating marriages.
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Poem GuideBy Hannah Brooks-Motl
The Chicago poet transports readers into a dream deferred.
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Poem GuideBy Annie Finch
What does it mean if a poem is “neither pro nor con abortion”?
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Poem GuideBy Austin Allen
When polite prejudice makes for scathing satire.
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Poem GuideBy Tyler Malone
Who are all these people? Where is this waste land they inhabit? What is this chaos of impressions we are privy to? Wherefore such madness?
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Poem GuideBy Maria Hummel
Was James Dickey writing about bestiality just for kicks, or was he attempting to revive the pastoral tradition?
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Poem GuideBy Ange Mlinko
The poet inhabits a dog and listens to his master’s voice.
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Poem GuideBy Megan Snyder-Camp
Savoring the movement of the mind.
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Poem GuideBy Stephanie Burt
A Romantic poet imagines a better life, where he never grew up.
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Poem GuideBy Joel Brouwer
Reality and representation mix in this classic poem.
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Poem GuideBy Stephanie Burt
The poet tries to start a revolution from his bed.
