Five Poets Who Changed My Life Sinclair Sexsmith 5 Poets July 15, 2010 4 min readMARY OLIVER Tell me, what is it you will do/with your one wild and precious life? —”The Summer Day” So...
5 Poets Who Changed My Life James Allen Hall 5 Poets June 17, 2010 4 min read1. Adrienne Rich I can’t tell you how I knew what the ladder was for. But when I read “Diving...
5 Poets Who Changed My Life Randall Mann 5 Poets May 14, 2010 3 min readRobert Frost A hardback The Poetry of Robert Frost was a prop on the living room coffee table in my...
Five Poets Who Changed My Life Michael Broder 5 Poets May 6, 2010 4 min readDorothy Parker. My sixth grade English teacher, Anita Malta, gave us the poetry anthology Reflections on a Gift of Watermelon...
Five Poets Who Changed My Life Bakar Wilson 5 Poets April 28, 2010 3 min readI never took myself seriously as a writer because I felt that my voice wasn’t valid. Here are five poets...
Five Writers Who Taught Me How or Why to Write Elliott F. batTzedek 5 Poets April 23, 2010 7 min readCharlotte A. Cavatica If you had only your writing tools, a few months, and a mere five words to save...
5 Poets Who Changed My Life Julie R. Enszer 5 Poets April 22, 2010 3 min readLife’s not forever, love is precarious. Wherever I live, let me come home to you as you are, I as...
Five Poets Who Changed My Life Jason Schneiderman 5 Poets April 21, 2010 3 min readI hate the idea of “life changing.” It’s terrifying! Who wants to consider their life as a serendipitous bricolage rather...
Five poets that changed my life… Danielle Evennou 5 Poets April 18, 2010 3 min readEvie Shockley — Shockley’s work taught me that poetry is centerfold worthy. Her poem “a thousand words” is a literary...
Brent Goodman: 5 Poets Who Changed My Life Brent Goodman 5 Poets April 16, 2010 2 min readDear Allen, I wore a “Starving, Hysterical, Naked” T-shirt to my first AWP. By then I had carried you since...
