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Each week in ENGL 310: Advanced Poetry Writing at Monmouth College,  writers choose a poems from different kinds of sources. For the first week, they chose one of a dozen or so recent issues of Poetry, contributing a single poem to the class anthology. The discussions of the poems and poets--their subjects, voices, craft--weave into and out of the students writers’ own work. I’m learning about new poets and and new poems already. Next week: individual poems from recently published collections.  

Week One: Mini Anthology from recent issues of Poetry Magazine

Miranda: Once I Had an Acceptance Speech by Anthony Anaxagorou

Teri: My Therapist Wants to Know about My Relationship to Work by Tiana Clark

Connor:  !katya! by Chrissy Williams

Gunnar: Bear by Reginald Gibbons

Morgan: Aubade Beginning in Handcuffs by torrin a. greathouse

Lexis: IInfinity Ghazal Beginning with Lice and Never Ending with Lies by Tarfiah Faizullah

Owen: Nostalgia by Chase Berggrun

Serena: Runaway by Jorie Graham

Shweta: Krishna by Meena Alexander

Nathan: Let’s Make the Water Turn Black by Sandra Simonds

Kenzie: Dictionary of Owl by Mary Meriam