My “wicked” scheme to scare the crow: alongside Scattered Corn, I, Turtle, prepare balled skins of deer, clad in a kirtle. Two gangly sticks for legs I pound across the hills of bean and squash.

Poet Roger Stevens reveals his techniques for writing a poem on a specific topic Sometimes poems arrive out of nowhere. You see or hear something that triggers a thought: crows line up on a piece of ...

Hanif Abduraqqib. Sarah Kay. Elizabeth Acevedo. Clint Smith. Do any of these names sound familiar? How about Amanda Gorman? All of these writers are part of America’s thriving contemporary poetry ...

A group or individual poem about your family, an aspect of your family or why they are important to you You can submit a poem in written form or as an audio or video clip that is one-minute or less. A ...

The remix, the allusion, the pulling something from the past, even when it doesn’t feel as if it’s your past, and making something of the moment with it. Riffing off Elizabeth Bishop, this chronicle ...

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