Acclaimed poet, fiction writer, and essayist Kim Addonizio shares the Five Things She’s Learned about the way that great poems work to surprise us, transcend time, and take us to unexpected places.

Award-winning poet, novelist, teacher, and scholar Kaveh Akbar shares the Five Things He’s Learned about the ways antiquity’s spiritual verse can help us to better understand ourselves – and to sit more...

Poet and writer Victoria Chang shares the Five Things She’s Learned about the ways that following an unconventional path can be a surprising source of creative inspiration and innovation.

Celebrated poet, writer, editor, and scholar Camille Dungy shares the Five Things She’s Learned about the ways that creativity arises from the soil of our most fundamental relationships – with the land,...

Poet, novelist, songwriter, and teacher Joseph Fasano shares the Five Things He’s Learned about how poetry works – and how poetry helps us all become better listeners to the world around us, to the voices...

Award-winning poet, essayist, and translator Jane Hirshfield shares the ways that poems’ original seeing can be invited, recognized, and worked with to open new depth, openness, and possibility – in words...

Poet, teacher, and Editor-in-Chief of Poetry magazine Adrian Matejka shares the Five Things He’s Learned about the complicated and animating process of turning a stack of poems into a cohesive poetry...

Pulitzer Prize winning poet Carl Phillips shares the Five Things He’s Learned about some of the less obvious – but common – ways in which patterns arise and contribute meaning in poems we love.

Join poet, editor, and founder of Conscious Writers Collective Maya C. Popa in this live, ninety-minute class and discover the literature that has shaped her and that informs the poems in her wonderful new...

Poet, editor, and founder of Conscious Writers Collective Maya C. Popa shares the Five Things She’s Learned about the ways that poets can bring desire to the page with heat, precision, mystery, and...

Best-selling writer and poet Maggie Smith shares the Five Things She’s Learned about what it means to prioritize your creative practice in ways that allow you to stay productive and feel most like yourself...

Poet, author, actress, and director Amber Tamblyn shares the Five Things She’s Learned about how to harness our emotions into the full force of our creative work — and how to put all that we’re...

Celebrated poet, writer, and professor Matthew Zapruder shares the Five Things He’s Learned about the practical and spiritual techniques that have helped him to keep the faith and to keep going as a...

Celebrated poet, writer, and professor Matthew Zapruder shares the Five Things He’s Learned about honoring family as a source of creative inspiration – about being truthful in the service of mercy and...