Weโre proud to announce The Five Things I’ve Learned Poetry Collection. Your chance to spend time with and learn directly from six of our wisest, most celebrated poets.
Across six two-hour sessions, you’ll discover the Five Things They’ve Learned about reading and writing poetry โ and about their own responses to the questions that poems can inspire and illuminate.
The Five Things I’ve Learned Poetry Collection is available now for immediate, on-demand purchase. You can view every class in the collection for a single ticket price of $99 and easily return to each sessions as often as youโd like.
- Kim Addonizio โ Acclaimed poet, fiction writer, and essayist โโ who shares the Five Things Sheโs Learned about the way that great poems work to surprise us, transcend time, and take us to unexpected places.
- Kaveh Akbar โ award-winning poet, novelist, teacher, and scholar โ who shares the Five Things Heโs Learned about the ways antiquityโs spiritual verse can help us to better understand ourselves, and to sit more comfortably in our own uncertain times.
- Jane Hirshfield โ award-winning poet, essayist, and translator โ whoshares the ways that poemsโ original seeing can be invited, recognized, and worked with to open new depth, openness, and possibility, in words and in lives.
- Adrian Matejka โ Poet, teacher, and Editor-in-Chief of Poetry magazine โโ who shares the Five Things Heโs Learned about the complicated and animating process of turning a stack of poems into a cohesive poetry collection.
- Carl Phillips โ 2023 Pulitzer Prize winner and author of 17 books of poetry, most recentlyย Scattered Snows, to the North andย Then the War: And Selected Poems 2007-2020 โ whoshares the Five Things Heโs Learned about some of the less obvious, but common, ways in which patterns arise and contribute meaning in poems we love.
- Maya C. Popa โ Writer, editor, teacher and Poetry Editor of Publishers Weekly โโ who shares the Five Things Sheโs Learned about the ways that poetic form both organizes and conveys our essential emotions and insights.
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