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Learning PromptEngaging the Unexpected By Hannah TreasureMay 20, 2025On found language and the lyrical voice
Learning PromptOtherwise Hidden, or Self-Erasure: A TeleologyBy Leigh SugarMarch 25, 2025erasure as self-revelation
CollectionPoetry and the Civil Rights MovementBy The EditorsThe struggle for social justice remembered through poetry.
Glossary TermsAubadeA love poem or song welcoming or lamenting the arrival of the dawn. View In Glossary
Poem GuideLangston Hughes: “Harlem”By Scott ChallenerThis short poem about dreams is one of the most influential poems of the 20th century.
Poem GuideElizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard: “One morn I left him in his bed”By Hannah Brooks-MotlThe child elegy and the 19th-century poet.
Poem GuideJosephine Miles: “Cage”By Don BogenAn overlooked masterpiece depicts a feuding couple and the dreamy freedom just outside their door.