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Poets featured in performance, and in dialogues with their audience, with each other, and with Moyers are Amiri Baraka, Robert Pinsky, Mark Doty, Lucille Clifton, Coleman Barks, Stanley Kunitz, Deborah Garrison, Jane Hirshfield, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Shirl
Welcome to the "For Educators" section of Poets.org, also known as the Online Poetry Classroom. Here you will find a wealth of resources, including Teacher Forums where teachers can share ideas and seek help from colleagues; Pedagogical & Critical Essays
Welcome to Poets' Corner, one of the largest and oldest text resources on the web. The goal of this project is to create a user-friendly library of works that promotes browsing and exploring through a site that spans thousands of works by hundreds of auth
The notes in this section cover the two major types of epic poetry: the primary and secondary epics. Also covered are mock epics, epic novels, and epic romances. Epic poetry notes, criticism, and theory, in addition to examining several texts and essays a
Welcome to Poetry 180. Poetry can and should be an important part of our daily lives. Poems can inspire and make us think about what it means to be a member of the human race. By just spending a few minutes reading a poem each day, new worlds can be revea