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How to Read a Poem
Poetry for life. Start here.
“ This will be the main textbook for the poetry unit from now on.”
—Tom Hunley
It started simply enough.
A book by Tania Runyan, about how to read a poem—based on the Billy Collins poem "Introduction to Poetry."
Then the stories started pouring in, and we listened with awe. Readers new to poetry, teachers, people who'd come late to poetry, they told us:
this book can change everything.
Let it change your classroom, your students, or your life.
“ I require all our incoming poetry students—in the MFA I direct—to buy and read this book.”
—Jeanetta Calhoun Mish
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“ This book will not sit on my shelf, but on my desk.”
—Lexanne Leonard
Creativity Secrets
Reading and writing poetry is a creative pursuit. Our book on creativity can help make you a better reader and writer of poems. Don’t miss it. Check out Spin: Taking Your Creativity to the Nth Degree.
More Teaching Tools
For librarians, teachers, group leaders: we have teaching tools that will make it easier for you to plan your poetry and writing programs, including prompts, infographics, poem analyses and a poets coloring book.
Public Poetry Days
We’re committed to investing in "Poetry for Life." To this end, we sponsor four public days for poetry each year—from the informative to the whimsical. Join us in bringing poetry home, to work, and to the public square!
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